Who's Afraid of Bernard Shaw?

Some Personalities in Shaw's Plays

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Stanley Weintraub

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People known to Bernard Shaw had every reason to fear becoming recognisable characters in his plays. He turned Beatrice Webb into a witchlike virago in The Millionairess, Winston Churchill into an aspiring, blowhard politician in John Bull's Other Island, and Lawrence of Arabia into the eccentric army private Napoleon Alexander Trotsky Meek in Too True to Be Good. However, as eminent Shaw scholar Stanley Weintraub reveals in this exquisite collection, Shaw's relationships to real or imagined personalities could be both curiously unexpected and deliciously complex. Featuring figures as varied as Julius Caesar, Zulu king Cetewayo, Noel Coward, Edward Elgar, and Benjamin Disraeli, this volume brilliantly demonstrates how Shaw put something of himself into all of his ""people."" The result is a book that is consistently revealing, intriguing, and entertaining.

Author Biography:

Stanley Weintraub, Even Pugh Professor Emeritus of Arts and Humanities at Pennsylvania State University, USA, is the author of over fifty books, including Private Shaw and Public Shaw, Journey to Heartbreak, and Victoria: An Intimate Biography.

Release date Australia

April 30th, 2013

Author

Stanley Weintraub

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

240

Dimensions

152x229x15

ISBN-13

9780813044712

Product ID

21044337

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