The Cambridge Companion To George Bernard Shaw (cambridge Companions To Literature Series)

The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw is an indispensable guide to one of the most influential and important dramatists of the theater. The volume offers a broad-ranging study of Shaw with essays by a team of leading scholars. The Companion covers all aspects of Shaw's drama, focusing both on the political and theatrical context, while the extensive illustrations showcase productions from the Shaw Festival in Canada. In addition to situating Shaw's work in its own time, the Companion demonstrates its continuing relevance, and applies some of the newest critical approaches. Shaw's Life: A Feminist In Spite Of Himself / Sally Peters -- Imprinting The Stage: Shaw And The Publishing Trade, 1883-1903 / Katherine E. Kelly -- New Theatres For Old / Charles A. Berst -- New Women, New Plays, And Shaw In The 1890s / Kerry Powell -- Shaw's Early Plays / Frederick J. Marker -- Shavian Comedy And The Shadow Of Wilde / David J. Gordan -- Structure And Philosophy In Man And Superman And Major Barbara / Fredric Berg -- Nothing But Talk, Talk, Talk - Shaw Talk: Discussion Plays And The Making Of Modern Drama / Christopher Innes -- The Roads To Heartbreak House / Ronald Bryden -- Reinventing The History Play: Caesar And Cleopatra, Saint Joan, In Good King Charles's Golden Days / Matthew H. Wikander -- Shaw's Interstices Of Empire: Decolonizing At Home And Abroad / Tracy C. Davis -- The Later Shaw / T. F. Evans -- Shaw And The Court Theatre / Jan Mcdonald -- Please Remember, This Is Italian Opera: Shaw's Plays As Music-drama / J. L. Wisenthal -- Shaw And The Popular Context / Robert G. Everding. Edited By Christopher Innes. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Contents......Page 8 Illustrations......Page 10 Contributors......Page 14 Preface......Page 17 Acknowledgments......Page 19 Chronology......Page 21 Shaw's life: a feminist in spite of himself......Page 32 Imprinting the stage: Shaw and thepublishing trade, 1883-1903......Page 54 New theatres for old......Page 84 New Women, new plays, and Shawin the 1890s......Page 105 Shaw's early plays......Page 130 Shavian comedy and theshadow of Wilde......Page 151 Structure and philosophy in Man and Superman and Major Barbara......Page 171 "Nothing but talk, talk, talk - Shawtalk": Discussion Plays and the makingof modern drama......Page 189 The roads to Heartbreak House......Page 207 Reinventing the history play: Caesar and Cleopatra, Saint Joan,"In Good King Charles's Golden Days"......Page 222 Shaw's interstices of empire:decolonizing at home and abroad......Page 245 The later Shaw......Page 267 Shaw and the Court Theatre......Page 286 "Please remember, this is Italian opera":Shaw's plays as music-drama......Page 308 Shaw and the popular context......Page 334 Index......Page 359 The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw is an indispensable guide to one of the most influential and important dramatists of the theatre. The volume offers a broad-ranging study of Shaw with essays by a team of leading scholars. The Companion covers all aspects of Shaw's drama, focusing on both the political and theatrical context, while the extensive illustrations showcase productions from the Shaw Festival in Canada. In addition to situating Shaw's work in its own time, the Companion demonstrates its continuing relevance, and applies some of the newest critical approaches. Topics include Shaw and the publishing trade, Shaw and feminism, and Shaw and the Empire, as well as analyses of the early plays, discussion plays and history plays This volume covers all aspects of Shaw's drama situated in its own time and demonstrates its continuing relevance today, applying some of the newest critical approaches. Extensive illustrations showcase productions from the Shaw Festival in Canada. 30 photos.