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Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 080204123X
This collection of 140 annotated letters, 74 of which have never been published, documents the subsequent friendship and collaboration shared by Shaw, Webb, and Webb's wife Beatrice, throughout their lives.
Author : Beatrice Webb
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798837643040
This book contains all known so far 151 aphoristic entries in the diaries of Beatrice Webb about her lifelong friend Bernard Shaw written between 1893 and 1943 and edited by a leading contemporary Shavian Vitaly Baziyan. On 12 February 1943 Beatrice Webb wrote in her diary: "Kingsley Martin [Editor of the New Statesman] and Raymond Mortimer here for tea and talk. He and Kingsley Martin wanted me to contribute extracts from my diary about Bernard Shaw. I told them that would be undesirable. Our relations with GBS had been those of warm friendship and courteous co-operation, but nearly all the entries in the diaries were about our brilliant friend's troublesome antics, his queer dealing with current events and contemporary personalities, and were, in a sense, mainly critical. Sidney [Webb] and he had co-operated and he had always been most generous in his appreciation of our work. He was a great dramatist, but whimsical in his dealings with other men. I preferred to abstain from any quotation from the diaries until both the Shaws and the Webbs were no longer living personalities. . . ." This time has now come. Beatrice Webb's keenest observations about the greatest dramatist Bernard Shaw are available for readers and represent an important source for the study of British cultural, social and political history. They help to get a clearer picture of world-renowned Irish playwright and Nobel laureate who was subsequently awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature as well as other celebrities of her time. Here are some aphorisms from Beatrice Webb: 'Bernard Shaw is a perfect 'house friend'-self-sufficient, witty and tolerant, going his own way and yet adapting himself to your ways. If only he would concentrate his really brilliant intellect on some consecutive thought.' 'Persons with no sense of humour regard him as a combined Don Juan and a professional blasphemer of the existing order. An artist to the tips of his fingers and an admirable craftsman. Above all a brilliant talker, and, therefore, a delightful companion. Some people would call him a cynic-he is really an Idealist of the purest water. He has also a clientele among the cynical journalists and men of the world. Shaw lives in a drama or comedy of which he himself is the hero-his amour propre is satisfied by the jealousy and restless devotion of half a dozen women, all cordially hating each other.' 'What a comfort to be a fanatic. It is Bernard Shaw's fanaticism to turn everything inside out and see whether the other side won't do just as well if not better; it is this fanaticism which gives him genuine charm. He has a sort of affectionateness too, underneath his vanity.' 'Everything he explains or proposes, in practical detail, is just the old Fabian stuff-measures which certainly have no necessary connection with his dogma of Equality of Income and Compulsory Labour-the income and the work to be wholly unconnected with each other. This strange dogma is nowhere justified.' 'GBS has had in his later years an immensely successful career alike in prestige and riches; he has been adored and flattered by the smart set of intellectuals at home and by more substantial minds abroad. In his old age few and far between have been his outspoken detractors. But he is not satisfied with his reputation as an artist. He hungers after acceptance as a great thinker and social reconstructor. Which he is not, never has been, and never could be. But why should he expect to be a superman in social reconstruction? He does not claim to be a mathematician.' 'What a transformation scene from those first years I knew him: the scathing bitter opponent of wealth and leisure, and now! the adored one of the smartest and most cynical set of English Society.' 'GBS is gambling with ideas and emotions in a way that distresses slow-minded prigs like Sidney and I, and hurts those with any fastidiousness.'
Author : Beatrice Webb
Publisher : neobooks
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783754180112
The book contains all known so far 151 aphoristic entries in the diaries of Beatrice Webb about her lifelong friend, Nobel laureate and Oscar winner Bernard Shaw written between 1893 and 1943 and edited by a leading contemporary Shavian Vitaly Baziyan. Beatrice Webb's keenest observations about the greatest Irish dramatist Bernard Shaw represent an important source for the study of British cultural, social and political history. They help to get a clearer picture of world-renowned playwright as well as other celebrities of his time. Here are some aphorisms from Beatrice Webb about Bernard Shaw: 'He imagines that he gets to know women by making them in love with him. Just the contrary. His stupid gallantries bar out from him the friendship of women who are either too sensible, too puritanical or too much 'otherwise engaged' to care to bandy personal flatteries with him. He idealizes them for a few days, weeks or years, imagines them to be something utterly different from their true selves, then has a revulsion of feeling and discovers them to be unutterably vulgar, second-rate, rapscallion, or insipidly well-bred. He never fathoms their real worth, nor rightly sees their limitations.' 'One is so accustomed to GBS's vanity and egotism. One used to watch these faults leading to all sorts of rather cruel philanderings with all kinds of odd females.' 'His sensuality has all drifted into sexual vanity, delight in being the candle to the moths, with a dash of intellectual curiosity to give flavour to his tickled vanity. And he is mistaken if he thinks that it does not affect his artistic work. His incompleteness as a thinker, his shallow and vulgar view of many human relationships, the lack of the sterner kind of humour which would show him the dreariness of his farce and the total absence of proportion and inadequateness in some of his ideas, all these defects come largely from the flippant and worthless self-complacency brought about by the worship of rather second-rate women. For all that, he is a good-natured agreeable sprite of a man, an intellectual cricket on the hearth always chirping away brilliant paradox, sharp-witted observation and friendly comments. Whether I like him, admire him or despise him most I do not know. Just at present I feel annoyed and contemptuous.' 'He is self-complacent—feels himself one of the world geniuses and is mortified by the refusal of his generation to take him seriously as a thinker and reformer.' 'G.B.S.'s dogmatic conclusion is that Socialism consists of two ends; equalisation of incomes and compulsory labour.' 'He has the illusion that he is and must be right, because he has genius and his critics are just ordinary men.' 'He is a delightful companion for an outing, always amusing and good-tempered, sufficiently exasperating in argument to avoid tameness in companionship—the curse of the comradeship of the old. He is a delightful raconteur—a perfect gossip, elaborating by witty exaggerations the life-stories of his friends into human comedies, and sometimes into inhuman tragedies.' 'GBS complains of hordes of journalists who dogged his steps as false publicity. "The great majority of those who crowd to see me have not read a word I've written, and those who have don't understand, or disagree with my message to mankind." All the same, he enjoys it and rides triumphant over the mob of pressmen, attracted by the force, not of his message, but of his bewitching personality, the world-wide glamour of it.'
Author : Margaret I. Cole,Margaret Cole
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : PSU:000015826886
A collection of essays on Sidney and Beatrice Webb, their work, and their influence in the modern world by writers who can write about what the Webbs were like when they knew them, what they were trying to accomplish, and whether they succeeded or failed.
Author : Peter Gahan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319484426
This book investigates how, alongside Beatrice Webb’s ground-breaking pre-World War One anti-poverty campaigns, George Bernard Shaw helped launch the public debate about the relationship between equality, redistribution and democracy in a developed economy. The ten years following his great 1905 play on poverty Major Barbara present a puzzle to Shaw scholars, who have hitherto failed to appreciate both the centrality of the idea of equality in major plays like Getting Married, Misalliance, and Pygmalion, and to understand that his major political work, 1928’s The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism had its roots in this period before the Great War. As both the era’s leading dramatist and leader of the Fabian Society, Shaw proposed his radical postulate of equal incomes as a solution to those twin scourges of a modern industrial society: poverty and inequality. Set against the backdrop of Beatrice Webb’s famous Minority Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Law 1905-1909 – a publication which led to grass-roots campaigns against destitution and eventually the Welfare State – this book considers how Shaw worked with Fabian colleagues, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, and H. G. Wells to explore through a series of major lectures, prefaces and plays, the social, economic, political, and even religious implications of human equality as the basis for modern democracy.
Author : Bernard Shaw,Viscountess Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor Astor
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0802037526
This collection of nearly 250 letters between Shaw and Astor - as well as between Astor and Shaw's wife, Charlotte, and Shaw's secretary, Blanche Patch - illustrates the rewarding friendship the two shared and the numerous issues they debated.
Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780802089618
This rich selection of Shaw's correspondence with his US and UK publishers proves how much the dramatist lived up to his own words by providing the details of his steady involvement in the publication of his works.
Author : Bernard Shaw,Brian Tyson
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0271015489
This new volume of Bernard Shaw's book reviews is a companion to Brian Tyson's previously edited collection of Shaw's earlier book reviews. Here Tyson collects seventy-three of the best remaining literary book reviews written by Shaw throughout his lifetime. Two-thirds of the reviews appear in book form for the first time, the originals residing in the archives of newspaper libraries, and only three of the remainder have been reprinted within the last twenty years. Politics feature largely in the works that Shaw reviewed: there are books of socialist theory and its practical appearance in the Soviet Union, as well as books on the individualism of J. H. Levy, the anti-socialism of Thomas McKay, and the economics of E. C. K. Gonner and Philip Wicksteed. There is often an immediacy about the books reviewed, too: discussion of books on World War I, the Soviet Revolution, women's suffrage, the British General Strike of 1926, and World War II all take place concurrently with the events. Many of the works reviewed are biographies, which give Shaw the opportunity to reveal his personal acquaintance with their subjects, including Samuel Butler, William Morris, and Dean Inge. This widely varied collection sparkles with wit and wisdom, taking us briskly through Shaw's own writing life, beginning when he was relatively unknown and concluding when he was a legend.
Author : A. Gibbs
Publisher : Springer
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2001-02-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230599581
A.M. Gibbs provides an authoritative and comprehensive account of the life, career and associations of George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), one of the most eminent and influential literary figures of the modern age. Drawing on a wide range of published and unpublished material, this work illuminates the complex fabric of Shaw's extraordinary career as playwright, novelist, critic, orator, political activist, social commentator, avant-garde thinker and controversialist. Images of Shaw's daily private life, and of his tangled love affairs, flirtations and friendships, are intertwined with the records of his prodigiously productive career as public figure and creative writer, in a fully documented study which is both a scholarly resource and a lively biographical portrait. An introductory chapter explores theoretical issues in biography raised by the chronology form; and a chapter on Shaw's ancestry and family supplies new evidence about his Irish background. A Who's Who section contains thumbnail sketches of over two hundred contemporaries of Shaw who had significant associations with him.
Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Socialism
ISBN : OCLC:500309037
Author : Brad Kent
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781316432167
When George Bernard Shaw died in 1950, the world lost one of its most well-known authors, a revolutionary who was as renowned for his personality as he was for his humour, humanity, and rebellious thinking. He remains a compelling figure who deserves attention not only for how influential he was in his time, but for how relevant he is to ours. This collection sets Shaw's life and achievements in context, with forty-two scholarly essays devoted to subjects that interested him and defined his work. Contributors explore a wide range of themes, moving from factors that were formative in Shaw's life, to the artistic work that made him most famous and the institutions with which he worked, to the political and social issues that consumed much of his attention, and, finally, to his influence and reception. Presenting fresh material and arguments, this collection will point to new directions of research for future scholars.
Author : Bernard Shaw,H. G. Wells
Publisher : Heritage
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 148757214X
This volumes comprises the personal correspondence of Shaw and Wells through the course of their friendship of more than forty years, and includes and introductory essay by J. Percy Smith.
Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 6339 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066388058
e-artnow presents to you this meticulously edited George Bernard Shaw collection:_x000D_ Introduction:_x000D_ Mr. Bernard Shaw (by G. K. Chesterton)_x000D_ Novels:_x000D_ Cashel Byron's Profession _x000D_ An Unsocial Socialist _x000D_ Love Among The Artists _x000D_ The Irrational Knot _x000D_ Plays:_x000D_ Plays Unpleasant:_x000D_ Widowers' Houses (1892)_x000D_ The Philanderer (1898)_x000D_ Mrs. Warren's Profession (1898)_x000D_ Plays Pleasant:_x000D_ Arms And The Man: An Anti-Romantic Comedy in Three Acts (1894)_x000D_ Candida (1898)_x000D_ You Never Can Tell (1897)_x000D_ Three Plays for Puritans:_x000D_ The Devil's Disciple _x000D_ Caesar And Cleopatra_x000D_ Captain Brassbound's Conversion _x000D_ Other Plays:_x000D_ The Man Of Destiny _x000D_ The Gadfly Or The Son of the Cardinal _x000D_ The Admirable Bashville Or Constancy Unrewarded _x000D_ Man And Superman: A Comedy and A Philosophy _x000D_ John Bull's Other Island _x000D_ How He Lied To Her Husband _x000D_ Major Barbara _x000D_ Passion, Poison, And Petrifaction _x000D_ The Doctor's Dilemma: A Tragedy _x000D_ The Interlude At The Playhouse _x000D_ Getting Married _x000D_ The Shewing-Up Of Blanco Posnet _x000D_ Press Cuttings _x000D_ Misalliance _x000D_ The Dark Lady Of The Sonnets _x000D_ Fanny's First Play _x000D_ Androcles And The Lion _x000D_ Overruled: A Demonstration _x000D_ Pygmalion _x000D_ Great Catherine (Whom Glory Still Adores) _x000D_ The Music Cure _x000D_ Beauty's Duty (Unfinished) _x000D_ O'Flaherty, V. C. _x000D_ The Inca Of Perusalem: An Almost Historical Comedietta _x000D_ Augustus Does His Bit _x000D_ Skit For The Tiptaft Revue _x000D_ Annajanska, The Bolshevik Empress _x000D_ Heartbreak House _x000D_ Back To Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch _x000D_ In the Beginning_x000D_ The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas_x000D_ The Thing Happens_x000D_ Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman_x000D_ As Far as Thought Can Reach_x000D_ The War Indemnities (Unfinished)_x000D_ Saint Joan _x000D_ The Glimpse Of Reality: A Tragedietta _x000D_ Fascinating Foundling: Disgrace To The Author _x000D_ The Apple Cart: A Political Extravaganza _x000D_ Too True to Be Good _x000D_ Village Wooing: A Comedietta for Two Voices _x000D_ On the Rocks: A Political Comedy _x000D_ The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles _x000D_ The Six of Calais _x000D_ Arthur and the Acetone _x000D_ The Millionairess _x000D_ Cymbeline Refinished: A Variation on Shakespeare's Ending _x000D_ Geneva _x000D_ "In Good King Charles' Golden Days" _x000D_ Playlet on the British Party System _x000D_ Buoyant Billions: A Comedy of No Manners _x000D_ Shakes versus Shav _x000D_ Farfetched Fables _x000D_ Why She Would Not _x000D_ Miscellaneous Works:_x000D_ What do Men of Letters Say? - The New York Times Articles on War (1915):_x000D_ "Common Sense About the War" by G. B. Shaw_x000D_ "Shaw's Nonsense About Belgium" By Arnold Bennett_x000D_ "Bennett States the German Case" by G. B. Shaw_x000D_ Flaws in Shaw's Logic By Cunninghame Graham_x000D_ Editorial Comment on Shaw By The New York World_x000D_ Comment by Readers of Shaw To the Editor of The New York Times_x000D_ Open Letter to President Wilson by G. B. Shaw_x000D_ A German Letter to G. Bernard Shaw By Herbert Eulenberg_x000D_ "Mr. G. Bernard Shaw on Socialism" (Speech)_x000D_ The Miraculous Revenge_x000D_ Quintessence Of Ibsenism _x000D_ The Basis of Socialism Economic _x000D_ The Transition to Social Democracy _x000D_ The Impossibilities Of Anarchism _x000D_ The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Niblung's Ring _x000D_ Letter to Beatrice Webb _x000D_ The Revolutionist's Handbook And Pocket Companion _x000D_ Maxims For Revolutionists _x000D_ The New Theology _x000D_ How to Write A Popular Play: An Essay _x000D_ A Treatise on Parents and Children: An Essay _x000D_ Memories of Oscar Wilde _x000D_ The Intelligent Women's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism: Excerpts _x000D_ Women in the Labour Market_x000D_ Socialism and Marriage_x000D_ Socialism and Children_x000D_ Letter to Frank Harris _x000D_ How These Doctors Love One Another! _x000D_ The Black Girl in Search of God _x000D_ The Political Madhouse in America and Nearer Home _x000D_ On Capital Punishment _x000D_ Essays on Bernard Shaw:_x000D_ George Bernard Shaw by G. K. Chesterton_x000D_ The Quintessence of Shaw by James Huneker_x000D_ Old and New Masters: Bernard Shaw by Robert Lynd_x000D_ George Bernard Shaw: A Poem by Oliver Herford
Author : Michel W. Pharand
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0271025190
Shaw, now in its twenty-fourth year, publishes general articles on Shaw and his milieu, reviews, notes, and the authoritative Continuing Checklist of Shaviana, the bibliography of Shaw studies.
Author : Hesketh Pearson
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780755154272
First published in 1942, Hesketh Pearson’s much lauded biography has been hailed as the standard work on George Bernard Shaw. Pearson wrote it with the close cooperation of Shaw. All aspects of Shaw’s life are explored including politics, personal life, letters, writings, contribution to English theatre and famous personalities of his time.