Edwardian Shaw: The Writer and his Age
Author:   Leon Hugo
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:  

9780333733554


Pages:   308
Publication Date:   29 January 1999
Format:   Hardback
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Edwardian Shaw: The Writer and his Age


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Author:   Leon Hugo
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.563kg
ISBN:  

9780333733554


ISBN 10:   033373355
Pages:   308
Publication Date:   29 January 1999
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Preface Introduction: G.B.S in the 1890s EDUCATE, AGITATE 1901-1904 January-May 1904: A Natural-Born Mountebank 1901-1902: Pathological Effusions 1903-1904: Fabian Shaw 1903-1905: International Shaw 1901-1910: Transformation THE COURT THEATRE: 1904-1907 1890-1904: Private Venture, Public Enterprise 1904-1907: The Twenty-Nine Percenters 1904-1905: Shavian Farragoes 1905-1906: Shavian Profanities 1906-July 1907: Shavian Bad Taste 1904-1907: Price and Value CONFRONT: 1907-1910 1907-1908: Storming the Citadel 1908-1909: Down with the Censor! 1910: Shavian Nastiness Edwardian Shaw POSTSCRIPT 1911: Fanny's First Play Notes Index

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.. . a new and richly detailed picture of Shaw's emergence as a well-known, even notorious, public figure. - Choice Professor Hugo has followed his 1971 book Bernard Shaw: Playwright and Preacher with this new study certain to gain the attention and gratitude of readers - The Independent Shavian


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LEON HUGO, former Director of Graduate Studies and Head of the Department of English, University of South Africa. Author of Bernard Shaw: Playwright and Preacher and many research and critical articles on Shavian and related matters in the USA and UK. He has written several successful novels for children, as well as short stories and plays.

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