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Shaw's people : Victoria to Churchill
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"How could Bernard Shaw have found anything to admire in Queen Victoria? Or in the passionate evangelical "General" William Booth of the Salvation Army? What possible connections could there be bet...
"How could Bernard Shaw have found anything to admire in Queen Victoria? Or in the passionate evangelical "General" William Booth of the Salvation Army? What possible connections could there be between Shaw, the passionate socialist, and the Tory Winston Churchill, who seemed to represent everything Shaw should have rejected and despised? In Shaw's People, noted scholar Stanley Weintraub explores the relationships between Shaw and twelve of his contemporaries, including Queen Victoria, Oscar Wilde, H. L. Mencken, James Joyce, and Winston Churchill. Weintraub chose these individuals as lenses through which to look at Shaw but also for the ways in which their lives are illuminated through their often paradoxical relationships with Shaw."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Creator
- Stanley Weintraub
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- Language
- English
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- University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, [1996]
- ©1996
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- 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780271015019, 0271015012, 0271015014
- OCLC
- ocm32312138
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Exasperated Admiration: Bernard Shaw on Queen Victoria -- "The Hibernian School": Oscar Wilde and Bernard Shaw -- Bernard Shaw in Darkest England: G.B.S. and the Salvation Army's "General" William Booth -- Apostate Apostle: H. L. Mencken as Shavophile and Shavophobe -- A Jennifer from Australia: Edith Adams, Her Husband, and The Doctor's Dilemma -- Uneasy Friendship: Shaw and Yeats -- A Respectful Distance: James Joyce and His Dublin Townsman Bernard Shaw -- The Playwright and the Pirate: Bernard Shaw and Frank Harris -- "Lawrence of Arabia": Bernard Shaw's Other Saint Joan -- Shaw's Other Keegan: Sean O'Casey and G.B.S. -- Indulging the Insufferable: Shaw and Siegfried Tiebitsch -- Jesting and Governing: Shaw and Churchill
Subjects
- Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 -- Friends and associates.
- Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 -- Contemporaries.
- Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 -- Contemporary Great Britain.
- Dramatists, Irish -- 19th century -- Biography.
- Dramatists, Irish -- 20th century -- Biography.
- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Biography.
- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Biography.