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- Introduction
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Abstract: Completed 31 July 1907, Bernard Shaw's short story "Aerial Football, the New Game" appeared initially that November in both the very first volume of the British periodical The Neolith and Collier's Weekly in America.1 When Collier's editors later awarded $1000 to its author for the best story of that quarter in February 1908, Shaw penned an indignant letter.DEAR SIR – What do you mean by this unspeakable outrage' You send me a cheque for a thousand dollars, and inform me that it is a bonus offered by Messrs. P.F. Collier & Son for the best story received during the quarter in which my contribution appears. May I ask what Messrs. P.F. Collier & Son expected it to be' If it were not the best they could get for the ... Read More
PubDate: 2022-11-01T00:00:00-05:00
- History and Religious Imagination: Bernard Shaw and the Irish Literary
Revival—an Overview-
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Abstract: The dead are always triumphant—if they were really alive before.Irish Poet William Butler Yeats, who resided in Britain at several stages of his life, is seen as inseparable from any account of modern Ireland, while his fellow Dubliner and long-term London resident Bernard Shaw has been largely written out of (or, more simply, not been written into) modern Irish history. As the best known Irish writer of his time, and—as Fabian socialist—one of the leading political thinkers in England, Shaw became a distinct, if at times quixotic presence in Irish cultural discourse in the period between the fall of Parnell in 1890 and the 1922 establishment of the Irish Free State and subsequent Civil War. His abundantly ... Read More
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- Conversation and Catering: Bernard Shaw and the Winstens—a Symbiotic
Relationship at Ayot St Lawrence and Beyond-
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Abstract: Stephen and Clare Winsten—schoolmaster and writer, and artist—moved to Rectory Cottage (later called Amesbury), on the edge of the village of Ayot St Lawrence, a few steps from Shaw's Corner, during the late summer or early autumn of 1940, earlier than has hitherto been recognized. Their house had been built by patron of the living Alice Ames as accommodation for the parish rectors after the New Rectory was let to the Shaws in 1906. Why did the family choose to live in a village with few amenities and no bus service (they had no car)' Presumably, in such a humble spot their rent would have been low and it would have been safer than the wartime capital. Comments in Days with Bernard Shaw indicate that Stephen was ... Read More
PubDate: 2022-11-01T00:00:00-05:00
- Mourning Agnes: The Hidden Impact on Bernard Shaw of the Death of His
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Abstract: At the age of ten, Oscar Wilde's sister Isola died of meningitis. Thirteen years later he expressed his anguish in his poem "Requiescat." Bernard Shaw's sister Elinor Agnes, affectionately called Yuppy or Aggie and the younger of his two older sisters (the other being Lucinda Frances, known as Lucy), died of tuberculosis on 27 March 1876, several months short of her twenty-second birthday.1 What do we know of Agnes and what can we find of Shaw's grief at her death' How might she have affected his life and works'The numerous Shaw biographies barely mention Agnes. Shaw was, I submit, deeply affected by his sister's death, yet kept his feelings for her hidden, mostly through silence, at times transmuting them through ... Read More
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- The Joy of Taxes
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Abstract: In June 1928, Bernard Shaw published The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism, which he had begun to write in late 1925, a long, demanding—dare I say taxing'—effort. He dedicated it to his sister-in-law Mary Stewart Cholmondeley (pronounced Chumley), "the intelligent woman to whose question this book is the best answer I can make." In the first edition he misspelled her surname, omitting the final e (even Shaw nods). The book became a best-seller on both sides of the Atlantic, and in 1937 he expanded and retitled it to include Sovietism and Fascism (and corrected the surname's spelling). He let it "be penguined," a term he coined four years later, for Penguin Books was the publisher. Respectable ... Read More
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- Shaw's Village Wooing: Love and Language from A to Z
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Abstract: Performances of Village Wooing are rare, and it's easy to see why: it's not your typical Shaw play. Village Wooing is short—I saw it as a lunchtime play at the Shaw Festival—with none of the usual Shavian artillery about economics, politics, and social reform. Although it takes place in 1933, there's no hint of the war clouds gathering over Europe. Shaw himself dismissed Village Wooing as "a very trivial comedietta."1But lately Village Wooing has been garnering more respect. Shaw's "very trivial comedietta" is actually an "exemplary text," according to Peter Gahan.2 Michael Holroyd thinks it "encapsulates many Shavian themes and obsessions from phonetics to the Life Force, forming a miniature pendant to Man and ... Read More
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- Ghosts, Part 2 or Getting Married: Shaw's Emendation of the Ibsenian New
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Abstract: The scandal over the 1891 London premiere of Ghosts made Henrik Ibsen a household name in England. The inaugural production for J. T. Grein's Independent Theatre, the play premiered on Friday, March 13 at the Royalty Theatre in Soho and featured a relatively unknown Mrs. Theodore Wright in the role of Mrs. Alving with Mr. Frank Lindo as Oswald. Grein chose Ghosts because its savage representation of bourgeois morality suited just the type of new theater its founding members—Bernard Shaw among them—sought to promote. Grein fashioned the Independent after André Antoine's Théâtre Libre and Otto Brahm's Freie Bühne, and like other "free theatres" on the continent, the Independent Theatre was a venue for serious ... Read More
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- The "Shavian Pattern" of Hallucinatory Experience: Saint Joan and the
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Abstract: The centennials of the canonization of Joan of Arc (1412–1431) in 1920 and the premier in 1923 of Saint Joan by Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) afford an opportunity to revisit the play, the author's preface, and the play's heroine in order to put them in conversation with recent trends in scholarship. This article focuses on one aspect of Joan's life that continues to elude explanation: her singular and enigmatic experience of hearing voices purportedly of divine origin. For while Joan scholarship today generally agrees with Shaw on several subjects—the fairness of her trial (given its time and context) and what Shaw called her nationalism and Protestant martyrdom, for example1—the phenomenon of her voice hearing ... Read More
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- Growing Up Like Romola: The Spiritual Evolutions of George Eliot and
Bernard Shaw-
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Abstract: In Major Barbara, the Salvation Army shelter guest Rummy Mitchens explains that her nickname is "Short for Romola. … It was out of a new book. Somebody me mother wanted me to grow up like."1 The line might provoke a sad chuckle as the George Eliot readers in the audience attempt to imagine a link between Eliot's youthful, ardent fifteenth-century Florentine protagonist and Shaw's London pauper, who, in her forties, is already described as an "old woman" and "a commonplace old bundle of poverty and hard-worn humanity" (Barbara 95). Among her neighbors, Rummy's name evokes no literary or historic associations, but only complaints about "names that nobody cawnt pronounce" (Barbara 98). In drawing the destitute woman's ... Read More
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- War, Pandemic, and Immortality: 1918 and the Drama of Eternal Life
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Abstract: In 1918, Luigi Antonelli premiered his play A Man Confronts Himself in Milan, Italy. The drama involved a mysterious and ageless Dr. Climt, who—among other incredible acts of science—grants immortality to a young woman named Rosetta. That same year, Bernard Shaw began work on his five-play cycle Back to Methuselah, about the extension of human life to something approaching immortality.1 Shaw's piece was not published until 1921, so it could not have influenced Antonelli, and it is highly unlikely that Antonelli's Italian production opening on the other side of war-ravaged Europe could have had any influence on Shaw. Yet somehow, the two dramatists tapped into an identical idea at the same time.Both A Man Confronts ... Read More
PubDate: 2022-11-01T00:00:00-05:00
- The Shaw Bot: Creating Literature Bots Using IBM Artificial Intelligence
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Abstract: Chatbots may not be farfetched to Bernard Shaw, who wrote in Part V of Back to Methuselah, "As Far As Thought Can Reach":the newly born.But won't they be alive, like us'pygmalion.That is a very difficult question to answer, my dear. I confess I thought at first I had created living creatures; but Martellus declares they are only automata. But then Martellus is a mystic: I am a man of science. He draws a line between an automaton and a living organism. I cannot draw that line to my own satisfaction.1(Collected Plays V 598)The bot world actually started under the "auspices" of Shaw. One of the earliest natural language processing programs is ELIZA, created in 1964–1966 by Joseph Weizenbaum at the MIT ... Read More
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- Shaw the Fighter
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Abstract: Bernard F. Dukore. Bernard Shaw and the Censors. Fights and Failures, Stage and Screen. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. xxiv + 261 pages.The subtitle of Bernard Dukore's latest book, Bernard Shaw and the Censors, points to its astonishingly comprehensive scope. Shaw's skirmishes with censors and the impact of censorship on his plays are its leitmotif, but along the way Dukore has also provided an overview of print, stage, and film censorship that opens with Pope Paul IV's Index of Prohibited Books of 1559 and closes with the Theatres Act of 1968, which abolished stage censorship in the United Kingdom—and which received the Royal Assent, he observes, on Shaw's birthday. Throughout, Shaw's clashes with various individuals ... Read More
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- Metadrama and Language
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Abstract: Jean Reynolds, Language and Metadrama in Major Barbara and Pygmalion: Shavian Sisters. Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 306 pages. ISBN: 978-3030960704. $ 119.99.In her latest book, Language and Metadrama in Major Barbara and Pygmalion: Shavian Sisters, Jean Reynolds delivers an arresting postmodern study of two popular plays by Shaw. She excavates especially the not-so-obvious meta-texts to illuminate their transformative function by using deconstructionist, linguistic, and performance theories. The result is not only a fascinating new interpretation of the central female characters, but also a considerable expansion of identifiable metatexts in Shaw's plays that complicate ... Read More
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- "Tomfoolery," That Deserves Our Attention
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Abstract: Playlets. Ed. James Moran. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2021. 593 pages. ISBN: 9780198804987. Paperback. £8.99.The sixteen Shavian one-act plays collected in this volume from the Oxford World Classic series don't get much attention from audiences, theater professionals, and scholars—and the playwright who wrote them may be one major reason. In his excellent introduction, editor James Moran lists some of Shaw's dismissive appraisals of these sixteen plays: "Tomfoolery," "a disgrace to the author," "flimsy," and "utter nonsense." At other times, however, Shaw took great pride in these playlets. In his preface to Trifles and Tomfooleries, he admitted that these short plays "may disgust the admirers of my more ... Read More
PubDate: 2022-11-01T00:00:00-05:00
- A Continuing Checklist Of Shaviana
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Abstract: Reisman, David, ed. Democratic Socialism in Britain: Classic Texts in Economic and Political Thought, 1825–1952. Vol. 4, Fabian Essays. London: Routledge, 2021.Roche, Anthony, ed. Best-Loved Bernard Shaw. Dublin: The O'Brien Press, 2021. A selection of the writings by Bernard Shaw. Contains sections with texts (or fragments) on Socialism, Idealism and Realism, The New Century and a Visionary Theatre, Flower Girls and Duchesses, The First World War and Easter 1916, and Late Shaw.Shaw, Bernard. "Mr. Bernard Shaw on Syndicalism: Advises People to Treat It Very Politely." SHAW: The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies 41.2 (2021): 440–441. With an introduction by Nelson O'Ceallaigh Ritschel in the same issue.———. "To Your ... Read More
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