The Cambridge companion to George Bernard Shaw / / edited by Christopher Innes [[electronic resource]]

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1998
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxxii, 343 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 822/.912
• Persona (resp. second.): InnesChristopher <1941->
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).
• Nota di contenuto: Shaw's life: a feminist in spite of himself / Sally Peters -- Imprinting the stage: Shaw and the publishing trade, 1883-1903 / Katherine E. Kelly -- New theatres for old / Charles A. Berst -- New women, new plays, and Shaw in the 1890s / Kerry Powell -- Shaw's early plays / Frederick J. Marker -- Shavian comedy and the shadow of Wilde / David J. Gordon -- Structure and philosophy in Man and Superman and Major Barbara / Fredric Berg -- "Nothing but talk, talk, talk -- Shaw talk": discussion plays and the making of modern drama / Christopher Innes. ; Roads to Heartbreak House / Ronald Bryden -- Reinventing the history play: Caesar and Cleopatra, Saint Joan, "In Good King Charles's Golden Days" / Matthew H. Wikander -- Shaw's interstices of empire: decolonizing at home and abroad / Tracy C. Davis -- Later Shaw / T.F. Evans -- Shaw and the court theatre / Jan McDonald -- "Please remember, this is Italian opera": Shaw's plays as music-drama / J.L. Wisenthal -- Shaw and the popular context / Robert G. Everding.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw is an indispensable guide to one of the most influential and important dramatists of the theatre. The volume offers a broad-ranging study of Shaw with essays by a team of leading scholars. The Companion covers all aspects of Shaw's drama, focusing on both the political and theatrical context, while the extensive illustrations showcase productions from the Shaw Festival in Canada. In addition to situating Shaw's work in its own time, the Companion demonstrates its continuing relevance, and applies some of the newest critical approaches. Topics include Shaw and the publishing trade, Shaw and feminism, and Shaw and the Empire, as well as analyses of the early plays, discussion plays and history plays.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Cambridge companion to George Bernard Shaw
• ISBN: 1-139-81560-1; 0-511-99953-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996216696803316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Cambridge companions to literature.