Language and Metadrama in Major Barbara and Pygmalion: Shavian Sisters

by Jean Reynolds

Book Overview

This book focuses on two important topics in Shaw's Major Barbara and Pygmalion that have received little attention from critics: language and metadrama. If we look beyond the social, political, and economic issues that Shaw explored in these two plays, we discover that the stories of the two "Shavian sisters"- Barbara Undershaft and Eliza Doolittle-are deeply concerned with performance and what Jacques Derrida calls "the problem...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030960706
• ISBN13: 9783030960704
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 229 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"