Bernard Shaws Marriages And Misalliances

Author : Robert A. Gaines
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349951706
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bernard Shaw's Marriages and Misalliances written by Robert A. Gaines and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book combines the insights of thirteen Shavian scholars as they examine the themes of marriage, relationships and partnerships throughout all of Bernard Shaw’s major works. It also connects Shaw’s own experiences of love and marriage to the themes that emerge in his works, showing how his personal relationships in and out of matrimonial bonds change the ways his characters enter and exit marriages and misalliances. While providing a wealth of new analysis, this collection of essays also leaves lingering questions for the reader to spark continuing dialogue in both individual and academic settings.

Author : J. L. Wisenthal
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674550858
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Marriage of Contraries written by J. L. Wisenthal and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reading of Bernard Shaw focuses on his habit of seeing the world in terms of contraries, a habit related to his basic rejection of absolutes, his distaste for finality. The author examines nine of Shaw's finest plays: Man and Superman, Major Barbara, John Bull's Other Island, The Doctor's Dilemma, Pygmalion, Misalliance, Heartbreak House, Saint Joan, and Back to Methuselah. The book takes seriously Shaw's claim that all of his characters are "right from their several points of view." We are compelled to respect the qualities and values of opposing and very different characters in these plays, and we also have a sense of their complementary defects. J. L. Wisenthal's commentary sheds light on Shaw's techniques of portrayal as well as his dialectical habit of mind. This finely written essay is for all lovers of Shaw and the theater.

Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Misalliance written by Bernard Shaw and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Misalliance" by Bernard Shaw. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573619557
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Misalliance written by Bernard Shaw and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1957 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) is revered as one of the great British dramatists, credited not only with memorable works, but the revival of the then-suffering English theatre. Shaw was born in Dublin, Ireland, left mostly to his own devices after his mother ran off to London to pursue a musical career. He educated himself for the most part, and eventually worked for a real estate agent. This experience founded in him a concern for social injustices, seeing poverty and general unfairness afoot, and would go on to address this in many of his works. In 1876, Shaw joined his mother in London where he would finally attain literary success. Written the first decade of the twentieth century, "Misalliance" is a sort of continuation of another of Shaw's play, "Getting Married". Set over the course of an afternoon, this play furthers Shaw's opinion that divorce should be an easily attainable thing.

Author : Audrey McNamara
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031325893
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bernard Shaw written by Audrey McNamara and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-07-19 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shaw emerged as a playwright in the politically charged environment of 1892, for both female suffrage and Irish independence. His plays quickly advocated for societal changes with regard to women’s roles, while expanding this advocacy into considerations of Ireland. Shaw’s engagement with marriage and union as a personal contract with nationhood have never before been considered as a methodology with which to view his work. This book demonstrates that Shaw was deeply engaged with and committed to the Irish question and to social and gender issues.

Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781636377827
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Getting Married written by Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-14 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Getting Married is a play by George Bernard Shaw. First performed in 1908, it features a cast of family members who gather together for a marriage. The play analyses and satirises the status of marriage in Shaw's day, with a particular focus on the necessity of liberalising divorce laws. The preface to the published version of Getting Married is essentially a discussion of the future of marriage. Shaw takes the view that "Marriage remains practically inevitable", as the alternatives have too many disadvantages. In a future society, he argued, there could be no practicable replacement for marriage, neither individually negotiated deals or unconstrained "free love". Despite this, there was "a very pressing question of improving its conditions". Shaw went on to argue for sensible divorce laws to would protect the welfare of adults and children. Shaw notes that the form of the play adopts the classical unities, saying "the Greek form is inevitable when drama reaches a certain point in poetic and intellectual evolution." (wikipedia.org)

Author : George Shaw
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781722036331
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Misalliance written by George Shaw and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Bernard Shaw's classic play exploring concepts of marriage, women's rights, and Victorian norms.

Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Getting Married written by George Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-11 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Getting Married is a play by George Bernard Shaw. First performed in 1908, it features a cast of family members who gather together for a marriage. The play analyses and satirises the status of marriage in Shaw's day, with a particular focus on the necessity of liberalising divorce laws.

Author : Peter Gahan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319484427
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bernard Shaw and Beatrice Webb on Poverty and Equality in the Modern World, 1905–1914 written by Peter Gahan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates how, alongside Beatrice Webb’s ground-breaking pre-World War One anti-poverty campaigns, George Bernard Shaw helped launch the public debate about the relationship between equality, redistribution and democracy in a developed economy. The ten years following his great 1905 play on poverty Major Barbara present a puzzle to Shaw scholars, who have hitherto failed to appreciate both the centrality of the idea of equality in major plays like Getting Married, Misalliance, and Pygmalion, and to understand that his major political work, 1928’s The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism had its roots in this period before the Great War. As both the era’s leading dramatist and leader of the Fabian Society, Shaw proposed his radical postulate of equal incomes as a solution to those twin scourges of a modern industrial society: poverty and inequality. Set against the backdrop of Beatrice Webb’s famous Minority Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Law 1905-1909 – a publication which led to grass-roots campaigns against destitution and eventually the Welfare State – this book considers how Shaw worked with Fabian colleagues, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, and H. G. Wells to explore through a series of major lectures, prefaces and plays, the social, economic, political, and even religious implications of human equality as the basis for modern democracy.

Author : Mary Christian
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030406393
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marriage and Late-Victorian Dramatists written by Mary Christian and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-04-23 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ​This book examines plays produced in England in the 1890s and early 1900s and the ways in which these plays responded to changing perceptions of marriage. Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, and other late-Victorian dramatists challenged romanticized ideals of love and domesticity, and, in the process, these authors appropriated and rewrote the genre conventions that had dominated English drama for much of the nineteenth century. In their plays, theater became a forum for debating the problems of traditional marriage and envisioning alternative forms of partnership. This book is written for scholars specializing in the areas of Victorian studies, dramatic literature, theater history, performance studies, and gender studies.