George Bernard Shaw: A Very Short Introduction

by Christopher Wixson

Book Overview

George Bernard Shaw has been called the second greatest playwright in English (after William Shakespeare) and one of the inventors of modern celebrity as the most famous public intellectual of his time. Beginning in the 1880s, as a critic and as a playwright, he transformed British drama, bringing to it intellectual substance, ethical imperatives, and modernity itself, setting the theatrical course for the subsequent century. That his legacy endures...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198850093
• ISBN13: 9780198850090
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.2" x 6.8"