Bernard Shaws Book Reviews

Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271015484
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bernard Shaw's Book Reviews: 1884-1950 written by Bernard Shaw and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new volume of Bernard Shaw's book reviews is a companion to Brian Tyson's previously edited collection of Shaw's earlier book reviews. Here Tyson collects seventy-three of the best remaining literary book reviews written by Shaw throughout his lifetime. Two-thirds of the reviews appear in book form for the first time, the originals residing in the archives of newspaper libraries, and only three of the remainder have been reprinted within the last twenty years. Politics feature largely in the works that Shaw reviewed: there are books of socialist theory and its practical appearance in the Soviet Union, as well as books on the individualism of J. H. Levy, the anti-socialism of Thomas McKay, and the economics of E. C. K. Gonner and Philip Wicksteed. There is often an immediacy about the books reviewed, too: discussion of books on World War I, the Soviet Revolution, women's suffrage, the British General Strike of 1926, and World War II all take place concurrently with the events. Many of the works reviewed are biographies, which give Shaw the opportunity to reveal his personal acquaintance with their subjects, including Samuel Butler, William Morris, and Dean Inge. This widely varied collection sparkles with wit and wisdom, taking us briskly through Shaw's own writing life, beginning when he was relatively unknown and concluding when he was a legend.

Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781557835611
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shaw on Shakespeare written by Bernard Shaw and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2002 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). "With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his." - From SHAW ON SHAKESPEARE Celebrated playwright, critic and essayist George Bernard Shaw was more like the Elizabethan master that he would ever admit. Both men were intristic dramatists who shared a rich and abiding respect for the stage. Shakespeare was the produce of a tempestuous and enlightening era under the reign of his patron, Queen Elizabeth I; while G.B.S. reflected the racy and risque spirt of the late 19th century as the champion of modern drama by playwrights like Ibsen, and, later, himself. Culled from Shaw's reviews, prefaces, letters to actors and critics, and other writings, SHAW ON SHAKESPEARE offers a fascinating and unforgettable portrait of the 16th century playwright by his most outspoken critic. This is a witty and provocative classic that combines Shaw's prodigious critical acumen with a superlative prose style second to none (except, perhaps, Shakespeare!).

Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bernard Shaw's Book Reviews written by Bernard Shaw and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These hitherto uncollected book reviews of Shaw--his first journalistic efforts--reveal much not only about the writer but also the culture of the time in which he lived. Between 1885 and 1888, Bernard Shaw published 111 book reviews in the Pall Mall Gazette. In spite of their importance as the first regular journalism Shaw wrote and the fact that the books (fiction, nonfiction, plays, and poetry) he read during these years must have formed the nucleus of his permanent library, the reviews have never before been analyzed in connection with Shaw's work. Brian Tyson has assembled the book reviews, complete with the books' titles, authors, and a brief biography of each author, including any comments Shaw made about the review, and has placed them in historical context, elucidating any interesting, difficult, or obscure references. Tyson's critical introduction places the reviews in the context of Shaw's work and Victorian society. The reviews are often characterized by the wit and brilliance that we associate with the later Shaw, shedding light on his development as a writer at his most formative stage. Regardless of the merits of the material Shaw was reviewing, it is amusing and enlightening to follow him down to the wandering tributaries of Late Victorian fiction and poetry, which reveal as much about Shaw as they do about the preoccupations and prejudices of the average reader of the day.

Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bernard Shaw's Book Reviews written by Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1848547323
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love Among The Artists written by George Bernard Shaw and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his inimitable wit and sparkle, George Bernard Shaw brings us the character of Owen Jack, a salty non-conformist composer said to have been suggested by Beethoven. The relations between Jack and the other wayward bohemians of the story with the more conventional socialites around them offers shrewd insight into the nature of the artistic temperament, with its needs for a kind of commitment that overrides the everyday claims of the heart. A novel which anticipated Shaw's first plays by more than ten years, LOVE AMONG THE ARTISTS shows him already mocking the respectable morality of the Victorian society around him.

Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101157666
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plays by George Bernard Shaw written by George Bernard Shaw and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-08-03 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Bernard Shaw demanded truth and despised convention. He punctured hollow pretensions and smug prudishness—coating his criticism with ingenious and irreverent wit. In Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Arms and the Man, Candida, and Man and Superman, the great playwright satirizes society, military heroism, marriage, and the pursuit of man by woman. From a social, literary, and theatrical standpoint, these four plays are among the foremost dramas of the age—as intellectually stimulating as they are thoroughly enjoyable. “My way of joking is to tell the truth: It is the funniest joke in the world.”—G. B. Shaw With an Introduction by Eric Bentley and an Afterword by Norman Lloyd

Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Speeches written by Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Bodley Head
ISBN 13 : 9780370312705
Total Pages : 960 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shaw's Music: 1876-1890 written by Bernard Shaw and published by Bodley Head. This book was released on 1989-01 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first of three volumes of musical criticisms by Bernard Shaw reflecting his great breadth of knowledge of the works of Wagner, Bach and Mozart to more contemporary British composers such as Walton, Tippett and Britten.

Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Namaskar Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Perfect Wagnerite: a Commentary on the Niblung's Ring written by Bernard Shaw and published by Namaskar Books. This book was released on with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780393977530
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book George Bernard Shaw's Plays written by Bernard Shaw and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 2002 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents four plays by George Bernard Shaw, incuding "Mrs. Warren's Profession," "Pygmalion," "Man and Superman," and "Major Barbara," each with an explanatory annotation, and includes information on the author and his work, a chronology, and a selected bibliography.