SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies, Vol. 11
Shaw and Politics
Edited by T.F. Evans
Shaw's political activities and utterances touched virtually every major political issue of his time and spanned most of his adult life. In this collection, Bernard Crick assesses the extent of Shaw's influence as a political thinker, Stanley Weintraub describes Shaw's 1888–92 political speaking engagements at "Oxbridge," and James Woodfield looks at Widowers' Houses as "Comedy for Socialism's Sake."
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Norman Buchan, M.P., provides a present-day parliamentarian's view of Shaw's thoughts about parliamentary democracy. Leon H. Hugo explores Shaw's reactions to the politics of South Africa, and Patricia Pugh examines Shaw's role as an imperialist. Peter Archer, M.P., addresses Shaw and the Irish question.
C. E. Hill traces Shaw's involvement with local government. John V. Antinori analyzes the "politics of personality" in Shaw's relationship with George Sylvester Viereck, and Michel W. Pharand focuses on the "politics of pacifism" in his discussion of Shaw and Romain Rolland.
Eric Wallis introduces four reprinted contemporary responses to The Intelligent Woman's Guide, published in The Criterion in 1928, by Harold J. Laski, the Reverend M. C. D'Arcy, A. L. Rowse, and Kenneth Pickthorn. Also reprinted are the 1944 Spectator review by Walter Elliot of Everybody's Political What's What? and Shaw's reply.
David Nathan explores Shaw's attitude toward the Jews, with emphasis on Geneva, and H. J. Fyrth examines Geneva in the context of international politics. The volume also contains reviews of six books relevant to Shaw studies, including one devoted to Shaw and Marx.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION: THE POLITICAL SHAW 1
T.F. Evans
SHAW AS POLITICAL THINKER, OR THE
DOGS THAT DID NOT BARK 21
Bernard Crick
BERNARD SHAW BESIEGED: POLITICAL
PROGRESSES TO OXBRIDGE, 1888-1892 37
Stanley Weintraub
SHAW'S WIDOWERS' HOUSES: COMEDY FOR
SOCIALISM'S SAKE 47
James Woodfield
SHAW AND PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY:
A PARLIAMENTARIAN'S VIEW 65
Norman Buchan
BRITONS, BOERS, AND BLACKS: BERNARD SHAW
ON SOUTH AFRICA 79
Leon H. Hugo
BERNARD SHAW, IMPERIALIST 97
Patricia Pugh
SHAW AND THE IRISH QUESTION 119
Peter Archer
SHAWA AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT 131
C.E. Hill
ANDROCLES AND THE LION HUNTER: G.B.S.,
GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK, AND THE POLITICS
OF PERSONALITY 149
John V. Antinori
ABOVE THE BATTLE? BERNARD SHAW, ROMAIN
ROLLAND, AND THE POLITICS OF PACIFISM 169
Michel W. Pharand
THE INTELLIGENT WOMAN'S GUIDE: SOME
CONTEMPORARY OPINIONS 185
Eric Wallis
BERNARD SHAW'S “INTELLIGENT WOMAN'S GUIDE.”
SOME OPINIONS 195
Harold J. Laski, the Rev. M.C. D'Archy, S. J., A.L. Rowse, and Kenneth P. Pickthorn
EVERYBODY'S POLITICAL WHAT'S WHAT? : A
REVIEW AND A REPLY 213
Walter Elliot and Bernard Shaw
FAILURE OF AN ELDERLY GENTLEMAN: SHAW
AND THE JEWS 219
David Nathan
IN THE DEVIL'S DECADE: GENEVA AND
INTERNATIONAL POLITICS 239
H. J. Fyrth
REVIEWS
MARX VERSUS SHAW 259
Sally Peters
FAILURES OF THE FABIAN 266
J.L. Wisenthal
SHAW AS ART CRITIC 270
Elsie B. Adams
SHAW ON PHOTOGRAPHY 273
Lionel Kelly
SHAW AND OTHERS 278
Bernard F. Dukore
O'CASEY AND SHAW, AGAIN 284
Stanley Weintraub
A CONTINUING CHECKLIST OF SHAVIANA 287
John R. Pfeiffer
NOTICES 307
CONTRIBUTORS 313
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