Bernard Shaw: Playwright and Preacher
by Leon Hugo
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0416078206
- ISBN 13
- 9780416078206
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About This Item
London: Methuen & Co Limited. Very Good/Very Good. 1971. Hard Cover. 8vo 0416078206 Dust jacket in a clear protective sleeve, unclipped, chunk missing to top edge and some fading. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine, slight fade to edges. No ownership marks. 272 pages clean and tight. It was Shaw's general contention that all great art was didactic; it was his specific contention that he wrote plays to convert people to his opinions on `Social Economy', `Political Economy', and `Vital Economy'. In this new study of Bernard Shaw's plays, Leon Hugo examines the implications of these contentions. Professor Hugo's book, a lively and enthusiastic reappraisal of the literary and dramatic quality of Shaw's plays, viewed in the light of their relationship to his social and political ideas, will be of value both as an introduction to new readers of Shaw and as a stimulus to the re-examination of many conventional and often dismissive views of his achievement as a dramatic poet. In the first part of the book, Shaw's Fabian socialism, his political philosophy, and his belief in Creative Evolution are examined. In the second part, the author appraises Shaw's plays by relating them to his ideas and by assessing them as `literature'. Among the plays discussed at length are: Mrs Warren's Profession, Candida, Caesar and Cleopatra, Man and Superman, Major Barbara, Heartbreak House, and St Joan. In the third part an assessment is made of Shaw's influence as a teacher and dramatist and the author argues that Shaw at his best achieves didactic and aesthetic unity in his plays. .
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- Bookseller
- CHARLES BOSSOM (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 142860
- Title
- Bernard Shaw: Playwright and Preacher
- Author
- Leon Hugo
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good/Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0416078206
- ISBN 13
- 9780416078206
- Publisher
- Methuen & Co Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1971
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