S H A W B I Z N E S S
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Links to Criticism & Biography on Shaw |
1.
British Drama 1890 to 1950: A Critical
History (Shaw is discussed
in Chapters 1, 2 3 & 5).
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MODERN BRITISH, IRISH, AND AMERICAN DRAMA:A DESCRIPTIVE CHRONOLOGY, 1865 – 1965, by Charles A. Carpenter: http://bingweb.binghamton.edu/~ccarpen/. To go directly to a Shaw page, click on http://bingweb.binghamton.edu/~ccarpen/shaw.htm
4. Calendar of Authors (Shaw is listed under July 26. Provides a brief biography and a chronological list of Shaw's works). Home Page.
5. Brief biographies of Shaw can be found on many of the links suggested on this "Shaw Bizness" site. For examples, try Spartacus Educational or Generation Terrorists or Encarta Learning Zone.
6. For books to read, the shortest and most readable biography is Hesketh Pearson's George Bernard Shaw: His Life and Personality. Longer biographies are Archibald Henderson's George Bernard Shaw: Man of the Century, Michael Holroyd's Bernard Shaw: A Biography, and Sally Peter's Bernard Shaw: The Ascent of the Superman (the latter has its own website at www.geocities.com/ilovegbs/BernardShawBiography).
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For autobiography, see Sixteen Self
Sketches in the Constable Edition and the two-volume Shaw: An Autobiography, edited by
8. For bibliographies of criticism, see the three-volume G. B. Shaw: An Annotated Bibliography of Writings About Him, edited by J. P. Wearing, Donald Haberman, and Elsie B. Adams.
9. For a review of Caesar and Cleopatra, see http://www.classicaltheatre.com/id21.htm .
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Most works of criticism and
biography, of course, are available only from off-line sources.
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