Author: Publisher: Arihant Publications India limited
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Publisher: Arihant Publications India limited
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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A Study of the Modern Drama
Author: Barrett Harper ClarkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
The Power of Words (2)
Author: StilovskyPublisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1728399041
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Literature of all kinds plays such an important place in our lives whether it’s biography, classics, crime or poetry. In this non-fiction volume you will find a mine of facts which will fascinate all who love books. Felix Schrödinger and Pyotr Stilovsky have compiled in this, the fifth volume of the series, a compendium of information that will appeal to all who love language and especially those who seek out knowledge for its own sake.
Candida
Author: Bernard ShawPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
The Marriage of Contraries
Author: J. L. WisenthalPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674550858
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
This reading of Bernard Shaw focuses on his habit of seeing the world in terms of contraries, a habit related to his basic rejection of absolutes, his distaste for finality. The author examines nine of Shaw's finest plays: Man and Superman, Major Barbara, John Bull's Other Island, The Doctor's Dilemma, Pygmalion, Misalliance, Heartbreak House, Saint Joan, and Back to Methuselah. The book takes seriously Shaw's claim that all of his characters are "right from their several points of view." We are compelled to respect the qualities and values of opposing and very different characters in these plays, and we also have a sense of their complementary defects. J. L. Wisenthal's commentary sheds light on Shaw's techniques of portrayal as well as his dialectical habit of mind. This finely written essay is for all lovers of Shaw and the theater.
Misalliance
Author: Bernard ShawPublisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573619557
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) is revered as one of the great British dramatists, credited not only with memorable works, but the revival of the then-suffering English theatre. Shaw was born in Dublin, Ireland, left mostly to his own devices after his mother ran off to London to pursue a musical career. He educated himself for the most part, and eventually worked for a real estate agent. This experience founded in him a concern for social injustices, seeing poverty and general unfairness afoot, and would go on to address this in many of his works. In 1876, Shaw joined his mother in London where he would finally attain literary success. Written the first decade of the twentieth century, "Misalliance" is a sort of continuation of another of Shaw's play, "Getting Married". Set over the course of an afternoon, this play furthers Shaw's opinion that divorce should be an easily attainable thing.
A History of English Literature
Author: Emile LegouisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1516
Book Description
Selected Plays, with Prefaces
Author: Bernard ShawPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
Movements in English Literature
Author: GilliePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521206556
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
In this 1975 volume, Christopher Gillie follows the method of selecting writers that are most significant for this study. He tries to show the main movements in English literature between 1900 and 1940, and selects for discussion those writers who have an abiding relevance, even those without a large readership. As a guide to himself as well as the reader, he includes in the account enough historical and social narrative as may help explain such relevance, and why he has made particular selections. Gillie reinforces his critical comments with quotations from the selected writers, and provides an extensive bibliography for further study.
The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw
Author: Christopher InnesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521566339
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
This volume covers all aspects of Shaw's drama, focusing both on the political and theatrical context, while the illustrations showcase productions from the Shaw Festival in Canada.
