Overview

The newest volume of SHAW emphasizes Shaw's mastery of nondramatic forms. In My Dear Dorothea: Shaw's Earliest Sketch, Laura Tahir examines Shaw's first sustained literary effort, an instructional tract for the moral education of a young girl. Ray Bradbury introduces Shaw's The Best Books for Children, a previously unpublished essay offering thoughts on children's literature. Stanley Weintraub evaluates Shaw's political ballads, published anonymously in the Star in 1588-89. Included in the volume are Shaw's contribution to The Salt of the Earth, a collaborative novel published in the World in 1890 introduced by Fred D. Crawford, and Civilization and the Soldier, an essay reflecting on the nature of the British Empire in the context of the Boer War. Lee W. Saperstein introduces Shaw's previously unpublished Orkney and Shetland, a short travel guide that Shaw wrote for the Royal Automobile Club. Shaw's nondramatic writing frequently illuminates the plays. Stuart E. Baker analyzes The Quintessence of Ibsenism to define Shavian realism as it applies to the plays, and Michael J. Holland explores Shaw's short fiction to trace the early development of techniques that served Shaw well in his drama. Howard Ira Einsohn looks at the relationship between The Intelligent Woman's Guide and The Apple Cart. Three articles examine Shaw's nondramatic concerns in a biographical and historical context. In The Black Girl and Some Lesser Quests: 1932-1934, Leon H. Hugo traces the origin of The Black Girl. Vivian Ducat's Bernard Shaw and the King's English tells of Shaw's involvement with the BBC Advisory Committee on Spoken English. In The Bernard Shaw/Edward Gordon Craig Feud, James Fisher explores Shaw and Craig's public and private relationship, which included disagreements involving dramatic theory and the publication of the Shawl Terry correspondence. SHAW 9 emphasizes Shaw's mastery of nondramatic forms and shows the extent to which, for Shaw, drama remained only one of many vehicles available for conveying the Shavian viewpoint.

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Author:   Fred Crawford ,  Fred D. Crawford
Publisher:   Pennsylvania State University Press
Imprint:   Pennsylvania State University Press
Volume:   v. 9
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.567kg
ISBN:  

9780271006529

ISBN 10:   0271006528
Pages:   243
Publication Date:   01 October 1990
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Contents INTRODUCTION: OFFSTAGE? 1 Fred D. Crawford 1. MY DEAR DOROTHEA: SHAW'S EARLIEST SKETCH 7 Laura Tahir 2. ON SHAW'S THE BEST BOOKS FOR CHILDREN 23 Ray Bradbury 3. THE BEST BOOKS FOR CHILDREN 25 Bernard Shaw 4. BALLADS BY SHAW: THE ANONYMOUS STAR VERSIFIER OF 1888-1889 29 Stanley Weintraub 5. SHAW'S COLLABORATION IN THE SALT OF THE EARTH 39 Fred D. Crawford 6. THE SALT OF THE EARTH 45 Bernard Shaw 7. SHAVIAN REALISM 79 Stuart E. Baker 8. CIVILIZATION AND THE SOLDIER 99 Bernard Shaw 9. SHAW'S SHORT FICTION: A PATH TO DRAMA 113 Michael J. Holland 10. THE ORKNEYS REVISITED 131 Lee W. Saperstein 11. ORKNEY AND SHETLAND 139 Bernard Shaw 12. THE INTELLIGENT READER'S GUIDE TO THE APPLE CART 145 Howard Ira Einsohn 13. THE BLACK GIRL AND SOME LESSER QUESTS: 1932-1934 161 Leon H. Hugo 14. BERNARD SHAW AND THE KING'S ENGLISH 185 Vivian Ducat 15. THE COLOSSUS VERSUS MASTER TEDDY : THE BERNARD SHAW/EDWARD GORDON CRAIG FEUD 199 James Fisher 16. A CONTINUING CHECKLIST OF SHAVIANA 223 John R. Pfeiffer CONTRIBUTORS 237

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Author Information

Fred O. Crawford is the author of Mixing Memory and Desire: The Waste Land and British Novels, and British Poets of the Great War. He is Assistant Professor of English at Central Michigan University.

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