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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW WAS A MAN OF (MANY) LETTERS
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Forget Shaw's plays.
When he hit his stride, the apparently tireless Irish
playwright wrote 10 letters a day, some of them running to 50
pages. (Shaw appended a particularly voluble letter, "Forgive this
long letter; I don't have time to write a short one.") There's the
further matter of Shaw's five novels, his innumerable essays, his
drama and music criticism, as well as the extension of that
criticism in "The Quintessence of Ibsenism" and "The Complete
Wagnerite." In addition, there...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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The correspondence of George Bernard Shaw: Late delivery from theatre's man of letters; A new book documents the 27-year correspondence between playwright George Bernard Shaw and Sir Barry Jackson, founder of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre. Terry Grimley looks at a theatrical relationship which had an influence far beyond the West Midlands.(Features)
The Birmingham Post (England)
; ... then most highly regarded playwright, George Bernard Shaw, and Barry Jackson, who had created ... the road in Station Street, where Shaw had just attended a matinee performance ... play Heartbreak House. According to Shaw's account, written years later, he ... production was outstanding ... .
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Bernard Shaw, vol. 1, 1856-1898: The Search for Love.
The Nation
; BERNARD SHAW, Volume I, 18561898: The Search for ... 24.95. In his preface to Misalliance, George Bernard Shaw remarked that a mother is like a broomstick ... statement he was fond of making about many things, even death It is a fact like ... be faced, not argued about, he said. Shaw ...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Bernard Shaw, vol. 2, The Pursuit of Power: 1898-1918.
The Economist (US)
; Literary lives Flippancy BERNARD SHAW: THE PURSUIT OF POWER 1898-1918. By Michael Holroyd ... of his enormous biography, Michael Holroyd took George Bernard Shaw from his Dublin cradle to London. There, building on a family inheritance of eccentricity, Shaw became a literary figure noted ...
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Bernard Shaw: A Life.(Book review)
Theatre History Studies
; Bernard Shaw: A Life. By A. M. Gibbs. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005. 554 pp. $39.95 cloth. Bernard Shaw was not only one of the most prolific and controversial playwrights of ... reached full flower as a playwright and intellectual. Throughout his many incarnations, Shaw ...
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A man of letters; Correspondence reveals Noel Coward to be a multifaceted man of his time
Chicago Sun-Times
; THE LETTERS OF NOEL COWARD Edited with commentary by ... really serve a whole different purpose than letters, and come with an entirely different attitude ... then, however, we can wax nostalgic with The Letters of Noel Coward, a voluminous, evocative ... old-fashioned encyclopedia's worth of genuine ...
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