Other| June 01 2023 INTERNATIONAL SHAW SOCIETY Shaw (2023) 43 (1): 121–123. https://doi.org/10.5325/shaw.43.1.0121 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation INTERNATIONAL SHAW SOCIETY. Shaw 1 June 2023; 43 (1): 121–123. doi: https://doi.org/10.5325/shaw.43.1.0121 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectivePenn State University PressShaw Search Advanced Search Membership in the ISS brings many benefits, but one of the chief benefits comes from providing to the ISS tax-deductible funds that can be used to support the scheduling of Shaw conferences, symposia, and sessions, and the giving of travel grants to junior scholars to attend such events. In this way, your regard and enthusiasm for Shaw can best be passed on. Please be as generous as you can in choosing your level of membership. For all gifts, the Recording Shaw will write your name in the Book of Life.As one of the principal goals of the ISS is to encourage younger generations to experience the delights of reading and seeing Shaw’s works and participating in the discussion of them, the ISS offers a generous program of support in the form of scholarships and grants, most of which are allied with particular events, such as symposia and conferences.To... You do not currently have access to this content.
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of Caesar, Switzky notes that Shaw made Caesar in his own image and develops that analysis by stating that Caesar “would also become a projection of the future leadership that Shaw believed humanity needed” (xiv). The analysis details that Shaw used the work of the historian Theodore Mommsen as the basis for his research of characters and plot. Switzky draws the comparison between the two men stating that “Mommsen, like Shaw, believed in demythologising a glorified past and humanizing the historical waxworks of renowned rulers” (xiv). Shaw said of Shakespeare’s Caesar that he “was a stage tyrant and a thug, rather than an exemplary leader” (xliv) and so designed his Caesar to diverge from traditional paths and was a “practical politician in public and in private . . . [who] prefers the role of instructor” (xlix). On the other hand, Cleopatra was alternatively described by critics as a “veritable she-devil” and “a deliberate anti-climax after the tragic grandeur of Shakespeare’s mature lover” (l); yet again Shaw refers to her as “A New Woman” (lii). In addition, Switzky describes Cleopatra’s nurse Ftatateeta “as the most original character part in the play . . . who transgresses boundaries in her body, demeanour, and class” (lii) and whose character Shaw wanted played by a male African-American actor in drag. He did not get his way on that. The rich production history of the play is tracked and again imparts many interesting facts, for example, Laurence Olivier and his wife, Vivienne Leigh, played the leading roles in 1951 in St. James’s Theatre in London. The play was made into film and was the first Shaw play to be filmed in color. This volume is a treasure trove of information and analysis. The notes to each of the plays are detailed and illuminating and will make the research task of any Shaw scholar easier. For the interested reader, the book, through its detail, will deepen their understanding of the work of one of the world’s most brilliant playwrights.
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abstract:This article examines several operatic adaptations of Shaw's plays The Devil's Disciple and The Music Cure. The focus is on how the musicality inherent in Shaw's plays is so substantial that the plays almost come across as musical dramas or operatic scores. The article explores what inspired the composers, what has been changed to accommodate the new medium, and why these musical adaptations fail to make it into the general repertoire.
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{"title":"Metadrama and Language (Language and Metadrama in Major Barbara and Pygmalion: Shavian Sisters)","authors":"Christa Zorn","doi":"10.5325/shaw.42.2.0495","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/shaw.42.2.0495","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40781,"journal":{"name":"Shaw-The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44082590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
abstract:An overview of Bernard Shaw's involvement in early twentieth-century Irish history, both political and cultural. Pressure building since the death of Parnell in 1891 would lead to Ireland's independence from Britain and the establishment of the Irish free State in 1922, with Shaw's Irish friends Horace Plunkett, Augusta Gregory, George Russell ("Æ"), and especially W. B. Yeats all prime movers in major new national cultural institutions that sprang up around the turn of the century. Through these four as well as his Irish wife, Charlotte Shaw, Shaw became involved in both the affairs of the nation as well as in Irish drama, especially Dublin's Abbey Theatre. Yeats and his work were particularly important for Shaw's contributions to the Irish literary revival, in which, whether in satirical, comic, or tragic modes, his Irish plays comprehend Irish mythology, history, imagination, and religious salvation.
{"title":"History and Religious Imagination: Bernard Shaw and the Irish Literary Revival—an Overview","authors":"P. Gahan","doi":"10.5325/shaw.42.2.0267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/shaw.42.2.0267","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:An overview of Bernard Shaw's involvement in early twentieth-century Irish history, both political and cultural. Pressure building since the death of Parnell in 1891 would lead to Ireland's independence from Britain and the establishment of the Irish free State in 1922, with Shaw's Irish friends Horace Plunkett, Augusta Gregory, George Russell (\"Æ\"), and especially W. B. Yeats all prime movers in major new national cultural institutions that sprang up around the turn of the century. Through these four as well as his Irish wife, Charlotte Shaw, Shaw became involved in both the affairs of the nation as well as in Irish drama, especially Dublin's Abbey Theatre. Yeats and his work were particularly important for Shaw's contributions to the Irish literary revival, in which, whether in satirical, comic, or tragic modes, his Irish plays comprehend Irish mythology, history, imagination, and religious salvation.","PeriodicalId":40781,"journal":{"name":"Shaw-The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies","volume":"14 1","pages":"267 - 298"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86966857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
abstract:Bernard Shaw and George Eliot both criticized traditional religious doctrines and institutions, yet also recognized the strength and sense of purpose religion could offer and sought in their writings to identify some new religion that they could accept as intellectually honest. This article examines Eliot's efforts to articulate such a principle in her novel Romola (1862–63) and Shaw's echoes and critiques of her ideas in Major Barbara (1905). While Eliot's ending calls for a humanistic faith rooted in compassion and fellowship, Shaw dismissed individual compassion as an ineffective substitute for socialist reform. Moreover, whereas Eliot's novel ultimately rejects the idea of religious institutions, Shaw left the issue unsettled in Major Barbara and returned to it in later writings in an effort to formulate an idea of a widely shared religion grounded in economic equity and cooperation with the Life Force.
{"title":"Growing Up Like Romola: The Spiritual Evolutions of George Eliot and Bernard Shaw","authors":"M. Christian","doi":"10.5325/shaw.42.2.0441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/shaw.42.2.0441","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Bernard Shaw and George Eliot both criticized traditional religious doctrines and institutions, yet also recognized the strength and sense of purpose religion could offer and sought in their writings to identify some new religion that they could accept as intellectually honest. This article examines Eliot's efforts to articulate such a principle in her novel Romola (1862–63) and Shaw's echoes and critiques of her ideas in Major Barbara (1905). While Eliot's ending calls for a humanistic faith rooted in compassion and fellowship, Shaw dismissed individual compassion as an ineffective substitute for socialist reform. Moreover, whereas Eliot's novel ultimately rejects the idea of religious institutions, Shaw left the issue unsettled in Major Barbara and returned to it in later writings in an effort to formulate an idea of a widely shared religion grounded in economic equity and cooperation with the Life Force.","PeriodicalId":40781,"journal":{"name":"Shaw-The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies","volume":"48 1","pages":"441 - 459"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88367372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
abstract:Bernard Shaw reminds readers that because they get nothing tangible for paying taxes, they have no personal consciousness of property, as they do when they pay a sales tax or V.A.T. for furniture or clothes. For the paved, lighted, and policed streets as well as water and sewage, one may, the next time the tax collector arrives, as Shaw puts it, "hear his knock with joy, and welcome him with the beaming face of the willing giver." Yet, he goes on, "the truth is that Capitalism plunders citizens through the Government and the municipalities and County Councils as effectually as it does through the shopkeeper." To provide public services, national and local governments buy large quantities of goods from private businesses, which profiteer by charging more than cost. Overcharges are then passed to taxpayers. The joy of taxes, then, if it arrives, may come in the future.
{"title":"The Joy of Taxes","authors":"B. Dukore","doi":"10.5325/shaw.42.2.0356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/shaw.42.2.0356","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Bernard Shaw reminds readers that because they get nothing tangible for paying taxes, they have no personal consciousness of property, as they do when they pay a sales tax or V.A.T. for furniture or clothes. For the paved, lighted, and policed streets as well as water and sewage, one may, the next time the tax collector arrives, as Shaw puts it, \"hear his knock with joy, and welcome him with the beaming face of the willing giver.\" Yet, he goes on, \"the truth is that Capitalism plunders citizens through the Government and the municipalities and County Councils as effectually as it does through the shopkeeper.\" To provide public services, national and local governments buy large quantities of goods from private businesses, which profiteer by charging more than cost. Overcharges are then passed to taxpayers. The joy of taxes, then, if it arrives, may come in the future.","PeriodicalId":40781,"journal":{"name":"Shaw-The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies","volume":"2011 1","pages":"356 - 382"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86330042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
abstract:The centennials of Joan of Arc's canonization (1920) and Shaw's Saint Joan (1923) afford an opportunity to revisit the play's preface and its heroine to evaluate Shaw's assessment of Joan's enigmatic voice hearing against recent empirical research. The article summarizes Shaw's position, situates it within the history of the psychiatry of voice hearing, and analyzes it in light of contemporary research on voice hearing generally and within religious communities. It argues that Shaw anticipated a late twentieth-century turn towards a benevolent regard for voice hearing and that he suggests venues for further research in areas still under-explored.
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abstract:Clare and Stephen Winsten, artist and writer, were the neighbors of Bernard Shaw during his last decade. They have received cursory, if not denigratory, treatment from Shaw's biographers for their perceived role in his last years. This article seeks to rescue their reputations and show how their company, after the death of Charlotte Shaw, filled a role in Shaw's life. By recounting the couple's earlier lives, it makes clear how much they had in common with Shaw and why he found them satisfying conversationalists. Shaw's interactions with the Winsten family revived his interest in art patronage and in Pygmalion-style experiments in the development and education of their children. The text identifies the artworks and books, which were created by the couple as a result of their relationship with Shaw, with the aim of rescuing them from later Shavian intellectual snobbery. It was a mutually beneficial friendship.
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abstract:Although Shaw dismissed Village Wooing as a "very trivial comedietta," it deserves serious attention. Village Wooing shares several themes with Pygmalion, including a language bet and a contentious relationship between a working-class young woman and a gentleman who corrects her diction. Like Pygmalion, it explores several important language ideas. John Bertolini calls it "a play of reading and writing," and Peter Gahan describes it as "an encounter between writer and reader." I have used Walter Ong's provocative "The Author's Audience Is Always a Fiction" to examine the complex relationship between an author and a reader in Village Wooing.
{"title":"Shaw's Village Wooing: Love and Language from A to Z","authors":"Jean Reynolds","doi":"10.5325/shaw.42.2.0383","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/shaw.42.2.0383","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Although Shaw dismissed Village Wooing as a \"very trivial comedietta,\" it deserves serious attention. Village Wooing shares several themes with Pygmalion, including a language bet and a contentious relationship between a working-class young woman and a gentleman who corrects her diction. Like Pygmalion, it explores several important language ideas. John Bertolini calls it \"a play of reading and writing,\" and Peter Gahan describes it as \"an encounter between writer and reader.\" I have used Walter Ong's provocative \"The Author's Audience Is Always a Fiction\" to examine the complex relationship between an author and a reader in Village Wooing.","PeriodicalId":40781,"journal":{"name":"Shaw-The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies","volume":"51 1","pages":"383 - 395"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82300882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}