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SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies, Vol. 13
Shaw and Other Playwrights
236 pages | 6 x 9 | 1993
ISBN 978-0-271-00908-7 | cloth: $57.95
Paperback edition is not available in the U.S.
The early conclusion that Shaw was mainly a magpie following the trails of many thinkers has led to the further consequence of neglecting Shaw's relationship to other playwrights. This volume of SHAW explores Shaw's plays as inheritances and inspirations of dramatic art and also locates Shaw himself as a presence in the work of his contemporaries and successors.
The volume concentrates on Shaw in relation to other modern British playwrights, notably Wilde, Bennett, Rattigan, the Court Theatre playwrights, and Shaw's successors from Coward to Stoppard. Gwyn Thomas's 1975 BBC play, The Ghost of Adelphi Terrace, puts Shaw and Barrie together on stage, and Shaw's 20 June 1937 Sunday Graphic obituary tribute to Barrie demonstrates Shaw's high regard for his contemporary and near neighbor.
There are also essays on how Shaw came increasingly to resemble Strindberg as a dramatist, on the requirements of acting and directing Shaw alongside his contemporaries at the Shaw Festival at Niagara-on-the-Lake, and on Heartbreak House as a complex dialogue with Chekhov, Shakespeare, and Strindberg.
John R. Pfeiffer has prepared a special bibliography of sources relating to Shaw and other playwrights in addition to the Continuing Checklist of Shaviana, and Dan H. Laurence has provided Shaw's pronunciation guide for the more troublesome names of his stage characters. There are also reviews of four recent additions to Shavian scholarship.
Contributors include John A. Bertolini, Fred D. Crawford, R. F. Dietrich, T. F. Evans, A. M. Gibbs, Leon H. Hugo, Christopher Newton, Sally Peters, John R. Pfeiffer, Evert Sprinchorn, and Stanley Weintraub.
John A. Bertolini is Professor of English at Middlebury College and author of The Playwrighting Self of Bernard Shaw (Southern Illinois University, 1991).
Introduction: Shaw As Mimic And Model
John A. Bertolini
Shaw And Strindberg
Evert Sprinchorn
The Hibernian School: Oscar Wilde And Bernard Shaw
Stanley Weintraub
Shaw And The Twenty-Nine Percenters
Leon H. Hugo
Arnold Bennett And Shaw: You Will Not Take The Theatre Seriously Enough
T.F. Evans
Finding Something New To Say: Rattigan Eludes Shaw
John A Bertolini
Shaw's British Inheritors
Fred D. Crawford
Heartbreak House: Chamber Of Echoes
A.M. Gibbs
Notes On Directing Shaw And A Few Contemporaries
Christopher Newton
The Ghost Of Adelphi Terrace
Gwyn Thomas (Edited By R.F. Dietrich)
Barrie: The Man With Hell In His Soul
Bernard Shaw
As He Liked It: Bernard Shaw's Pronouncing Guide To His Stage Characters
Dan H. Laurence
Shaw And Other Playwrights: A Bibliography Of Secondary Writings
John R. Pfeiffer
Reviews
The New Woman Versus The Old Adam (Shaw's Daughters By J. Ellen Gainor)
Sally Peters
The Reviewer In Spite Of Himself (Bernard Shaw's Book Reviews By Brian Tyson)
Fred D. Crawford
Old Age Shavian Style (Bernard Shaw, Vol. 3, By Michael Holroyd)
Leon H. Hugo
Bernard Shaw Research: Is It Only Just Begun? (Bernard Shaw: A Guide To Research By Stanley Weintraub)
John R. Pfeiffer
A Continuing Checklist Of Shaviana
John R. Pfeiffer
Notices
Contributors