SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies. Vol. 5
Shaw Abroad
Edited by Rodelle Weintraub
In addition to providing much fascinating new material about Bernard Shaw, this volume covers so much of his active life—from 1889, before his first play was completed, through his world travels of the 1930s that it comes close to being a biography of the public Shaw as well as a probing look at the private Shaw.
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Shaw's first travels were to Bayreuth as a Wagner pilgrim and to Holland and Belgium for their art and theater. Italy was next, and the result was Shaw's self-styled "Pre-Raphaelite" play, Candida. Shaw visited Sweden and met the irascible Strindberg, whose notorious plays he admired, and returned many times to Ireland—"John Bull's Other Island"—as tourist and self-exile. Crossings to France—a nation he disliked with Anglophilic intensity—led to Saint Joan and The Six of Calais, while visits to Italy in his sixties and seventies are seen here, in a remarkable exploration certain to stir controversy, as a last surging of Shaw's banked amorous fires, with repercussions in the later plays.
In his later travels Shaw became enmeshed in other countries' politics, sometimes deliberately, sometimes unawares; he was a political myopic in Russia, a pawn in Yugoslavia, a gadfly in Japan as well as in Hong Kong and China, and a prophet in South Africa, where he wrote The Black Girl in Search of God. Voyages to India and New Zealand led to his mystical and misunderstood The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles. In the United States he spoke from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera, hobnobbed with cinema stars in Hollywood, and admired—if nothing else in America—the Grand Canyon.
Included is a little-known article by G.B.S. on how to cross Switzerland speedily by auto without being picked up by the police, and a typically cantankerous pair of interviews on visiting the Holy Land.
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
INTRODUCTION 1
A WAGNER PILGRIM: GBS IN GERMANY 5
John J. Weisert
IN PURSUIT OF ART: SHAW'S ITALIAN TOURS OF 1891 AND 1894 13
Elsie B. Adams
A GOOD HOLIDAY: SHAW VISITS SWEDEN 25
Ishrat Lindblad
A HIGH WIND TO JAMAICA 37
Stanley Weintraub
VISITOR OR RETURNING EXILE? SHAW IN IRELAND 45
Nicholas Grene
CROSSING SWITZERLAND: THUN TO ZÜRICH. THE TRUTHS ABOUT THE BRÜNIG PASS AND THE SPEED LIMITS 63
Bernard Shaw
A PLAYWRIGHT'S SUPERTRIPS: SHAW'S VISITS TO FRANCE 67
Jean-Claude Amalric
PASSIONI AT LAKE MAGGIORE: SHAW, MOLLY TOPKINS, AND ITALY, 1921-1950 81
Charles A. Berst
A POLITICAL GAME: SHAW IN YUGOSLAVIA 115
Damir Kalogjera
G.B.S. IN THE HOLY LAND: TWO 1931 INTERVIEWS 121
MYOPIA OR UTOPIA? SHAW IN RUSSIA 125
T.F. Evans
UPSET IN A “SUNTRAP”: SHAW IN SOUTH AFRICA 147
Leon Hugo
SEEKING THE UNKNOWABLE: SHAW IN INDIA 181
Valli Rao
HONG KONG, SHANGHAI, THE GREAT WALL:
SHAW IN CHINA 211
Piers Gray
SHAKING THE EARTH: SHAW IN JAPAN 239
Sidney P. Albert and Junko Matoba
GBS, MGM, RKO: SHAW IN HOLLYWOOD 271
Bernard F. Dukore
“THAT AWFUL COUNTRY”: SHAW IN AMERICA 279
Dan H. Laurence
“IF I SHOWED MY TRUE FEELINGS”: SHAW IN
NEW ZEALAND 299
Murray Martin
THE LIFE AS A BIBLIOGRAPHY 319
Anthony Rota (Review of Barnard Shaw: A Bibliography, Dan H. Laurence)
A CONTINUING CHECKLIST OF SHAVIANA325
John R. Pfeiffer
CONTRIBUTORS 341
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