Crimes and Punishments and Bernard Shaw (Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries)

This book analyzes the interaction of crimes, punishments, and Bernard Shaw in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It explores crimes committed by professional criminals, nonprofessional criminals, businessmen, believers in a cause, the police, the Government, and prison officials. It examines punishments decreed by judges, juries, colonial governors, commissars, and administered by the police, prison warders, and prison doctors. It charts Shaw's view of crimes and punishments in dramatic writings, non-dramatic writings, and his actions in real life. This book presents him in the context of his contemporaries and his world, inviting readers to view crimes and punishments in their context, history, and relevance to his ideas in and outside his plays, plus the relevance of his ideas to crimes and punishments in life. Front Matter ....Pages i-x To Begin With (Bernard F. Dukore)....Pages 1-10 The Fundamental Crimes (Bernard F. Dukore)....Pages 11-17 Crimes Past, Crimes Present (Bernard F. Dukore)....Pages 19-34 Treason (Bernard F. Dukore)....Pages 35-52 The Malleability of the Law (Bernard F. Dukore)....Pages 53-68 The Law and the Innocent (Bernard F. Dukore)....Pages 69-80 Crimes and the Professional Writer (Bernard F. Dukore)....Pages 81-100 Women, Crime, and Punishment (Bernard F. Dukore)....Pages 101-156 Corporal Punishment and Worse (Bernard F. Dukore)....Pages 157-220 Crimes, Punishments, and Bernard Shaw (Bernard F. Dukore)....Pages 221-232 Back Matter ....Pages 233-243 Annotation This text analyzes the interaction of crimes, punishments, and Bernard Shaw in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It explores crimes committed by professional criminals, non-professional criminals, businessmen, believers in a cause, the police, the Government, and prison officials. It examines punishments decreed by judges, juries, colonial governors, commissars, and administered by the police, prison warders, and prison doctors. It charts Shaw's view of crimes and punishments in dramatic writings, non-dramatic writings, and his actions in real life