The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays with Their Prefaces. Volume VII.
Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher :
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 47,6 MB
Release : 1974
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Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits, Vol. VII
Author :
Publisher : Global Oriental
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 15,83 MB
Release : 2010-09-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9004218033
Book Description
This latest volume of leading figures in the history of Anglo-Japanese relations offers a classic menu of personalities, themes and events (in all 25 contributions). Contents include the writings of the Cambridge scholar Carmen Blacker and leading historian William Beasley; British military observer and Times reporter of the Russo-Japanese War General Sir Ian Hamilton; philosophers Arnold Toynbee, Bertrand Russell and George Bernard Shaw; the Chosu students Inoue Kaoru and Yamao Yozo who were later key figures in the Meiji period modernization of Japan; and Walter Dening, scholar and missionary. Subjects treated include horse breeding and horse-racing, the Japanese influence on British architects, the beginnings of golf in Japan and Japanese gardeners in Britain.
Bernard Shaw and Modern Advertising
Author : Christopher Wixson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 37,86 MB
Release : 2018-06-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 3319786288
Book Description
This book charts how promotional campaigns in which Bernard Shaw participated were key crucibles within which agency and personality could re-negotiate their relationship to one another and to the consuming public. Concurrent with the rise of modern advertising, the creation of Shaw’s 'G.B.S.' public persona was achieved through masterful imitation of patent medicine marketing strategies and a shrewd understanding of the relationship between product and spokesman. Helping to enhance the visibility of his literary writing and dovetailing with his Fabian political activities, 'G.B.S.' also became a key figure in the evolution of testimonial endorsement and the professionalizing of modern advertising. The study analyzes multiple ad series in which Shaw was prominently featured that were occasions for self-promotion for both Shaw and the agencies, and presage the iconoclastic style of contemporary 'public personality' and techniques of celebrity marketing.
The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw
Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher : London ; Toronto : Bodley Head
Page : 1006 pages
File Size : 16,37 MB
Release : 1970
Category : English drama
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Book Description
Bernard Shaw’s and Virginia Woolf’s Interior Authors
Author : Lagretta Tallent Lenker
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 35,81 MB
Release :
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ISBN : 3031496043
Book Description
The Politics and Plays of Bernard Shaw
Author : Judith Evans
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 17,72 MB
Release : 2002-12-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786413232
Book Description
Do politics and the playhouse go together? For Bernard Shaw they most certainly did. As a playwright with a message he saw the theatre as the ideal medium for conveying his view of life, which was essentially socialistic. The theatre was to Shaw a latter-day temple of the arts within a community. But Shaw was, of course, multi-voiced, not only through the characters he created but also in his own persona as public speaker, essayist, tract writer and author of works on political economy. Much of the thinking that is expressed in his non-dramatic works is contained also in his plays. This work offers a readily accessible means of looking at the nature and the progression of Shaw's thinking. All the plays included in the major canon are reviewed and, except for brief plays and playlets (which are grouped), they are presented in sequential order.
The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw
Author : Christopher Innes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 30,27 MB
Release : 1998-09-24
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521566339
Book Description
This volume covers all aspects of Shaw's drama, focusing both on the political and theatrical context, while the illustrations showcase productions from the Shaw Festival in Canada.
Shaw
Author : A M Gibbs
Publisher : Springer
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 24,50 MB
Release : 1990-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 134905402X
Book Description
Twentieth-century English History Plays
Author : Niloufer Harben
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 17,76 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780389207344
Book Description
The book offers the clearest definition yet of the history play, its scope and its limits. Historical drama is an extremely popular genre among 20th-century English playwrights. Yet the sheer size and complexity of the subject has, until now, prevented critics from attempting a clear definition. Dr. Harben provides a new and original perspective, taking into account modern ideas of and attitudes to history. The author examines the varying approaches to history taken by modern historians and playwrights, and provides a detailed analysis of the historical source material of selected plays. The study is supported with a wealth of vivid and provocative illustrations. Historical and dramatic criticism is related to theatrical interpretation and experience. This book therefore should prove valuable and interesting to the reader with a specialist interest in the field as well as to the more general reader.
Arms and the Man, The Devil's Disciple, and Caesar and Cleopatra
Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 17,8 MB
Release : 2021
Category :
ISBN : 0198800711
Book Description
The three plays in this volume are some of George Bernard Shaw's most popular and frequently performed works. They demonstrate the development of Shavian comedy and contain early formulations of his idea of the Superman, an extraordinary individual who catalyzes the evolution of mankind.Arms and the Man (1894) was Shaw's first commercial success and the first public confirmation that he could make playwriting his profession. It is the first of what Shaw called his "pleasant plays", comedies that critique idealism in general rather than specific social problems (as his earlier playsdid). Specifically, Shaw undermines the romance of wartime courage, reckless heroism, and nationalist pride among British spectators while using the Serbo-Bulgarian War of 1886 as an exotic veneer.Shaw wrote The Devil's Disciple (1897) for William Terriss, an actor known for his swashbuckling roles who had requested a play that would "contain every 'surefire" melodramatic situation' - mistaken identities, terrifying adventures and last-second escapes, and frequent emotional outpourings..Caesar and Cleopatra (1898) is Shaw's revision of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra as well as a fusion of the pragmatism and unconventionality of the heroes of Arms and the Man and The Devil's Disciple into a portrait of jocular, morally serious leadership.
