LEADER 02809nam 22006015 450 001 9911011347503321 005 20250616135202.0 010 $a3-031-90291-2 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-90291-8 035 $a(CKB)39331572100041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32157285 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32157285 035 $a(OCoLC)1524422537 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-90291-8 035 $a(EXLCZ)9939331572100041 100 $a20250616d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBernard Shaw and Noël Coward $eConversation Pieces /$fby Christopher Wixson 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (0 pages) 225 1 $aBernard Shaw and His Contemporaries,$x2634-582X 311 08$a3-031-90290-4 327 $aChapter 1. Introduction: Bernard Shaw and Noël Coward -- Chapter 2: Born Bosses and Lost Dogs -- Chapter 3: ?Native? Revolts -- Chapter 4: Entropical Turns -- Chapter 5: Why The Life Force Would Not. 330 $aThis book tracks dramaturgical affinities between some of Bernard Shaw?s late ?extravagant? plays and those of Noël Coward, in particular their recasting of one another?s style and the tradition of manners comedy. While Coward?s first play (The Young Idea) all but plagiarizes You Never Can Tell and Shaw responds with his own depictions of the idle rich, their experimental plays in the 1930s also ambitiously engage issues of race and Empire, topics further outside their respective idioms. ?Christopher Wixson mines Shaw?s rarely-explored engagement with the work of Noël Coward, examining both writers' highly experimental plays from the 1930s in light of such important issues as postwar disillusionment, racial difference, and post-coloniality.? Michel Pharand, Queen's University. 410 0$aBernard Shaw and His Contemporaries,$x2634-582X 606 $aPlaywriting 606 $aDramatists 606 $aTheater$xHistory 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century 606 $aPlaywrights and Playwriting 606 $aTheatre History 606 $aTwentieth-Century Literature 615 0$aPlaywriting. 615 0$aDramatists. 615 0$aTheater$xHistory. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 14$aPlaywrights and Playwriting. 615 24$aTheatre History. 615 24$aTwentieth-Century Literature. 676 $a822.912 700 $aWixson$b Christopher$0855635 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911011347503321 996 $aBernard Shaw and Noël Coward$94398340 997 $aUNINA