This collection presents a cross-section of Shaw's most important theater work—Mrs. Warren's Profession, Man and Superman, Major Barbara, and Pygmalion. Each play is fully annotated.
"Contexts and Criticism" features all-new material on the author and his work, from traditional critical readings to more theorized approaches, among them essays on Shaw's Fabianism and his alleged feminism. Contributors include Leon Hugo, Sally Peters, Tracy C. Davis, John A. Bertolini, Stanley Weintraub, and J. Ellen Gainor. A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are included. 作者简介:
SANDIE BYRNE is Fellow and Tutor in English at Balliol College, Oxford University. She is the author of Tony Har-rison: Loiner, H, v,G O: The Poetry of Tony Harrison, the Icon Reader's Guide to the Poetry of Ted Hughes, and the Icon Reader's Guide to Mansfield Park.
【目录】
Preface
The Texts of the Plays
Mrs Warren's Profession (1898)
Man and Superman (1903)
Major Barbara (1907)
Pygmalion ( 1914)
Contexts and Criticism
ON SHAW
Leon Hugo·From Edwardian Shaw: The Writer and His Age
Nicholas Grene·Two Models: Wilde and Ibsen
T. F. Evans·The Political Shaw
Sally Peters·Shaw's Life: A Feminist in Spite of Himself
Jean Reynolds·From Pygmalion's Wordplay
ON AIRS IVARREN'S PROFESSION
Anonymous·[Review of Mrs Warren's Profession]
Tracy C. Davis·Apprenticeship as a Playwright
ON IYIAN AND SUPERMAN
G. K. Chesterton·[Review of Man and Superman]
John A. Bertolini·Fatherhood and the Self, or the Philosophy of Comedy
ON MAJOR BARBARA
Margery Morgan·[Shaw's Blakean Farce]
Stanley Weintraub·Four Fathers for Barbara
ON PYGJVIALION
J. Ellen Gainor·The Daughter in Her Place
Errol Durbach·Pygmalion: Myth and Anti-Myth in the Plays of Ibsen and Shaw
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