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The Critical Shaw: On Literature
"The general reader, turning over the pages, will learn many things that are not of the slightest importance to him, but which he may, nevertheless, wish to know because other people occasionally write or speak of them." -Bernard Shaw, 1885

Critical Shaw: Literature is a comprehensive selection of renowned Irish playwright and Nobel Laureate Bernard Shaw's ideas and opinions on a wide range of literary forms of expression, from Shakespearean drama to ghost stories, from naturalist novels to philosophical essays. Always with an axe to grind-whether aesthetic, ethical, or otherwise-Shaw tested the boundaries of satire in his essays, occasionally locking horns with some of the most prominent authors of his lifetime. Displaying wit and wisdom in equal proportions, his reviews remain fresh even though the authors and books they appraised have long since fallen into oblivion.

The Critical Shaw series brings together, in five volumes and from a wide range of sources, selections from Bernard Shaw's voluminous writings on topics that exercised him for the whole of his professional career: Literature, Music, Politics, Religion, and Theater. Each volume is edited by a leading Shaw scholar; the series editor is L.W. Conolly, former president of the International Shaw Society.

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The Critical Shaw: On Literature
"The general reader, turning over the pages, will learn many things that are not of the slightest importance to him, but which he may, nevertheless, wish to know because other people occasionally write or speak of them." -Bernard Shaw, 1885

Critical Shaw: Literature is a comprehensive selection of renowned Irish playwright and Nobel Laureate Bernard Shaw's ideas and opinions on a wide range of literary forms of expression, from Shakespearean drama to ghost stories, from naturalist novels to philosophical essays. Always with an axe to grind-whether aesthetic, ethical, or otherwise-Shaw tested the boundaries of satire in his essays, occasionally locking horns with some of the most prominent authors of his lifetime. Displaying wit and wisdom in equal proportions, his reviews remain fresh even though the authors and books they appraised have long since fallen into oblivion.

The Critical Shaw series brings together, in five volumes and from a wide range of sources, selections from Bernard Shaw's voluminous writings on topics that exercised him for the whole of his professional career: Literature, Music, Politics, Religion, and Theater. Each volume is edited by a leading Shaw scholar; the series editor is L.W. Conolly, former president of the International Shaw Society.

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"The general reader, turning over the pages, will learn many things that are not of the slightest importance to him, but which he may, nevertheless, wish to know because other people occasionally write or speak of them." -Bernard Shaw, 1885

Critical Shaw: Literature is a comprehensive selection of renowned Irish playwright and Nobel Laureate Bernard Shaw's ideas and opinions on a wide range of literary forms of expression, from Shakespearean drama to ghost stories, from naturalist novels to philosophical essays. Always with an axe to grind-whether aesthetic, ethical, or otherwise-Shaw tested the boundaries of satire in his essays, occasionally locking horns with some of the most prominent authors of his lifetime. Displaying wit and wisdom in equal proportions, his reviews remain fresh even though the authors and books they appraised have long since fallen into oblivion.

The Critical Shaw series brings together, in five volumes and from a wide range of sources, selections from Bernard Shaw's voluminous writings on topics that exercised him for the whole of his professional career: Literature, Music, Politics, Religion, and Theater. Each volume is edited by a leading Shaw scholar; the series editor is L.W. Conolly, former president of the International Shaw Society.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780795348938
Publisher: RosettaBooks
Publication date: 05/31/2016
Pages: 254
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.58(d)

About the Author

Acclaimed Irish playwright and Nobel laureate Bernard Shaw has left an indelible mark on Western theater, culture, and politics. Over the course of his life, he wrote more than 60 plays that addressed prevailing social problems through comedy. Shaw was also a prolific essayist and lecturer on politics, economics, and sociological subjects, and was eventually awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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