George Bernard Shaw and the Socialist Theatre

by Tracy C. Davis

Book Overview

A biographically based study of George Bernard Shaw and his milieu, this book offers a non-laudatory reading of Shaw's economic practices and theories, augments feminist and postcolonial critiques that preoccupy the study of literary history in the 1990s, and provides a long overdue revisionist reading of Shaw for an undergraduate readership. It traces the theatrical and political influences on Shaw from his earliest days in London; tracks his interest...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 027593764X
• ISBN13: 9780275937645
• Release Date: July 1994
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.2"