Shaw offstage : the nondramatic writings
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Shaw offstage : the nondramatic writings
（Shaw : the annual of Bernard Shaw studies / Stanley Weintraub, general editor, v. 9）
Pennsylvania State University Press, c1989
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-235)
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Description
The newest volume of SHAW emphasizes Shaw's mastery of nondramatic forms. In "My Dear Dorothea: Shaw's Earliest Sketch," Laura Tahir examines Shaw's first sustained literary effort, an instructional tract for the moral education of a young girl. Ray Bradbury introduces Shaw's "The Best Books for Children," a previously unpublished essay offering thoughts on children's literature. Stanley Weintraub evaluates Shaw's political ballads, published anonymously in the Star in 1588-89. Included in the volume are Shaw's contribution to The Salt of the Earth, a collaborative novel published in the World in 1890 introduced by Fred D. Crawford, and "Civilization and the Soldier," an essay reflecting on the nature of the British Empire in the context of the Boer War. Lee W. Saperstein introduces Shaw's previously unpublished "Orkney and Shetland," a short travel guide that Shaw wrote for the Royal Automobile Club.
Shaw's nondramatic writing frequently illuminates the plays. Stuart E. Baker analyzes The Quintessence of Ibsenism to define Shavian realism as it applies to the plays, and Michael J. Holland explores Shaw's short fiction to trace the early development of techniques that served Shaw well in his drama. Howard Ira Einsohn looks at the relationship between The Intelligent Woman's Guide and The Apple Cart.
Three articles examine Shaw's nondramatic concerns in a biographical and historical context. In "The Black Girl and Some Lesser Quests: 1932-1934," Leon H. Hugo traces the origin of The Black Girl. Vivian Ducat's "Bernard Shaw and the King's English" tells of Shaw's involvement with the BBC Advisory Committee on Spoken English. In "The Bernard Shaw/Edward Gordon Craig Feud," James Fisher explores Shaw and Craig's public and private relationship, which included disagreements involving dramatic theory and the publication of the Shawl Terry correspondence.
SHAW 9 emphasizes Shaw's mastery of nondramatic forms and shows the extent to which, for Shaw, drama remained only one of many vehicles available for conveying the Shavian viewpoint.
Table of Contents
Contents
INTRODUCTION: OFFSTAGE? 1
Fred D. Crawford
1. MY DEAR DOROTHEA: SHAW'S EARLIEST SKETCH 7
Laura Tahir
2. ON SHAW'S "THE BEST BOOKS FOR CHILDREN" 23
Ray Bradbury
3. THE BEST BOOKS FOR CHILDREN 25
Bernard Shaw
4. BALLADS BY SHAW: THE ANONYMOUS STAR
VERSIFIER OF 1888-1889 29
Stanley Weintraub
5. SHAW'S COLLABORATION IN THE SALT OF THE EARTH 39
Fred D. Crawford
6. THE SALT OF THE EARTH 45
Bernard Shaw
7. SHAVIAN REALISM 79
Stuart E. Baker
8. CIVILIZATION AND THE SOLDIER 99
Bernard Shaw
9. SHAW'S SHORT FICTION: A PATH TO DRAMA 113
Michael J. Holland
10. THE ORKNEYS REVISITED 131
Lee W. Saperstein
11. ORKNEY AND SHETLAND 139
Bernard Shaw
12. THE INTELLIGENT READER'S GUIDE TO
THE APPLE CART 145
Howard Ira Einsohn
13. THE BLACK GIRL AND SOME LESSER QUESTS:
1932-1934 161
Leon H. Hugo
14. BERNARD SHAW AND THE KING'S ENGLISH 185
Vivian Ducat
15. "THE COLOSSUS" VERSUS "MASTER TEDDY": THE
BERNARD SHAW/EDWARD GORDON CRAIG FEUD 199
James Fisher
16. A CONTINUING CHECKLIST OF SHAVIANA 223
John R. Pfeiffer
CONTRIBUTORS 237
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