Bernard Shaw and the French.(Book Review)

Theatre History Studies | June 1, 2003| | Copyright

By Michel W. Pharand. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida, 2000; pp. xviii + 413. $55.00 cloth.

In 1884, while studying French, George Bernard Shaw wrote his first complete work for the stage, a playlet entitled Un Petit Drame. This early piece, a parody of French melodrama, manifested a tension that existed within Shaw throughout his career: the simultaneous and conflicting desire to both absorb and critique French culture. Shaw was both a "Francophobe" and a "Francophile"; and his reception in France later proved equally ambivalent. Although ...

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