Screen LibraryBernard Shaw：a life
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| Published: |
University Press of Florida,
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| Publisher Address: | Gainesville |
| Publication Dates: | c2005. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
The Florida Bernard Shaw series |
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| Carrier Form: | xiii, 554 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0813028590 (acid-free paper) 9780813028590 (acid-free paper) |
| Index Number: | K835 |
| CLC: | K835.615.6 |
| Call Number: | K835.615.6/S534G |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [459]-520) and index. "A family of pooh-bahs": Shaw's Irish origins -- The family skeletons -- Growing up in Dublin -- The Townshend connections -- Self-searching: London and the novels -- A Fabian Don Juan -- Rival attractions -- "The coming man": Critic and "Platform spellbinder" -- On stage -- A taste of success -- Wars of the theaters, mothers and bicycles -- An Irish courtship -- Marriage -- New century, "new religion" -- Eternal Irishman -- Edwardian summers -- Votes for women -- Enter critics, stage right -- A love affair, a death, and a triumph -- Armageddon and the "ruthless light of laughter" -- Sages, saints, and flappers -- The road to Baveno: dangerous flirtations -- World traveler and village squire -- Last flourishes and the call of the silver screen -- "A man all light": last years. |