George Bernard Shaw and the Socialist Theatre

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Tracy C. Davis

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A biographically-based study of George Bernard Shaw and his milieu, this book offers a non-laudatory reading of Shaw's economic practices and theories, augments feminist and post-colonial critiques that preoccupy the study of literary history in the 1990s, and provides a revisionist reading of Shaw for an undergraduate readership. It traces the theatrical and political influences on Shaw from his earliest days in London, tracks his interest in socialism as an activist and author of tracts, novels and plays emphasizing certain polemical traits, and follows his career as a major literary figure into the mid-20th century. The overarching themes of theatre and politics are narrated in relation to attempts by Shaw and his contemporaries to identify an audience and aesthetic for socialist theatre.

Author Biography:

TRACY C. DAVIS is Associate Professor of Theatre and English at Northwestern University. She has contributed to numerous books and anthologies, and is the author of Actresses as Working Women: Their Social Identity in Victorian Culture (1991).

Release date NZ

July 30th, 1994

Author

Tracy C. Davis

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Undergraduate

Pages

216

Dimensions

152x229x15

ISBN-13

9780313276118

Product ID

7109963

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