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SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies, Vol. 1

Shaw and Religion

Edited by Charles A. Berst

264 pages
6" × 9"
1981

SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies, Vol. 1

Shaw and Religion

Edited by Charles A. Berst

Now in book format, Shaw (continuing The Shaw Review) will publish general articles on Shaw and his milieu, reviews, notes and the authoritative Continuing Checklist of Shaviana—the bibliography of Shaw studies. Because of its book size, Shaw will offer approximately twice as many pages as the present three-issue format combined; it therefore will be possible to utilize more illustrative material than before, and more detailed studies.

 

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Now in book format, Shaw (continuing The Shaw Review) will publish general articles on Shaw and his milieu, reviews, notes and the authoritative Continuing Checklist of Shaviana—the bibliography of Shaw studies. Because of its book size, Shaw will offer approximately twice as many pages as the present three-issue format combined; it therefore will be possible to utilize more illustrative material than before, and more detailed studies.

For libraries and individual readers who bind their issues, the expense of binding will now be eliminated, and the studies published will be less susceptible to loss and mutilation than in the paper-cover form. Some annual volumes will be special-theme books, although such service departments as the annual Checklist and a book review section will be continued in them. Two-year subscribers in the U.S. and Canada are guaranteed the Volume 1 price of $15.95 for Volume 2 (1982), $17.50 in all other countries.

Contents

INTRODUCTION

SHAYDULLAH SEES SHAW 3

R. F. Bosworth

1. IN THE BEGINNING: THE POETIC GENESIS OF SHAW'S

GOD 5

Charles A. Bent

2. TOWARD RELIGION IN THE PLAYS

SHAW AND RA: RELIGION AND SOME HISTORY PLAYS 45

J. L. Wisenthal

3. LADY CICELY, I PRESUME: CONVERTING THE

HEATHEN, SHAVIAN STYLE 57

Ina Rae Hark

4. SHAW AS PROPHET

"SOME NECESSARY REPAIRS TO RELIGION":

RESURRECTING AN EARLY SHAVIAN "SERMON" 77

Charles A. Bent

5. SUPERMAN AND JEW: MR. BERNARD SHAW AND HERR

BRAININ—A NOTABLE CONVERSATION 99

Israel Cohen

6. PERSPECTIVES ON THE RELIGIOUS PLAYWRIGHT

THE LORD'S PRAYER AND MAJOR BARBARA 107

Sidney P. Albert

7. SHAW'S THE SHEWING-UP OF BLANCO POSNET AND

TOLSTOY'S THE POWER OF DARKNESS: DRAMATIC

KINSHIP AND THEOLOGICAL OPPOSITION 129

David Matual

8. BACK TO METHUSELAH: A BLAKEAN INTERPRETATION 141

Valli Rao

9. TOO TRUE TO BE GOOD AND SHAW'S ROMANTIC

SYNTHESIS: A RELIGION FOR OUR TIMES 183

Daniel Leary

10. THE ADVENTURES OF SHAW, THE NUN, AND THE

BLACK GIRL 205

Warren Sylvester Smith

BIBLIOGRAPHY

SHAW AND RELIGION/PHILOSOPHY: A WORKING

BIBLIOGRAPHY 225

Charles A. Carpenter

REVIEWS AND CHECKLIST

REVIEWS

SHAW'S WOMEN 249

Tony Stephenson

MONEY AND POLITICS 251

Calvin G. Rand

A CONTINUING CHECKLIST OF SHAVIANA 255

John R. Pfeiffer

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