Bernard Shaw’s Irish Outlook (bernard Shaw And His Contemporaries)

Using close readings of Shaw's plays and letters, as well as archival research, David Clare illustrates that Shaw regularly placed Irish, Irish Diasporic, and surrogate Irish characters into his plays in order to comment on Anglo-Irish relations and to explore the nature of Irishness. Front Matter....Pages i-x Introduction....Pages 1-5 Shaw and the Rise of Reverse Snobbery....Pages 7-20 Shaw and the Irish Diaspora....Pages 21-37 Shaw and Irish Anglican Preoccupations....Pages 39-66 Shaw and the Stage Englishman in Irish Literature....Pages 67-121 Conclusion....Pages 123-134 Back Matter....Pages 135-207