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George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

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In his book, George Bernard Shaw: His Plays (1905), he called Shaw 'a world- figure in the modern drama' and said that 'in all the history of the English stage, no man has exceeded him in technical resources nor in nimbleness of wit.' When he ...
The Bradleys and allied families of South Carolina

The Bradleys and allied families of South Carolina

Sarah Isabelle Bradley Ensworth

(b) William David Shaw 4. (c) Elizabeth Shaw 2. (2) (1) John Shaw, X Shaw, born May 21, 1750. The date of his death is found on the tombstone in the old Shaw burying -ground, five miles below Brick Church, "Sacred to the memory of John ...
The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw

The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw

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This volume covers all aspects of Shaw's drama, focusing both on the political and theatrical context, while the illustrations showcase productions from the Shaw Festival in Canada.
George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

Eldon Cleon Hill

Traces Shaw's creative development as it coincided with the events of his life and the appearance of his major plays
The Old Drama and the New: An Essay in Re-valuation

The Old Drama and the New: An Essay in Re-valuation

William Archer

George Wyndham Shaw's Candida : A Critical Introduction, Meena Sodhi Modern English Literature, G.H. Mair Mulk Raj Anand : His Art and Concerns, C.J. George Shakespeare : Julius Caesar, Dr. S.S. Agarwalla Intellectual Romantics : A ...
The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, ...

The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, ...

George Bernard Shaw

She waited a minute in pensive silence, and then said, “Why do you not marry Alice Goff?” “Oh, hang Alice Goff!” “It is so easy to come at the man beneath the veneer by expertly chipping at his feelings,” said Lydia, laughing. “But I was serious, ...
The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, ...

The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, ...

George Bernard Shaw

She waited a minute in pensive silence, and then said, “Why do you not marry Alice Goff?” “Oh, hang Alice Goff!” “It is so easy to come at the man beneath the veneer by expertly chipping at his feelings,” said Lydia, laughing. “But I was serious, ...
Memorials of the Clan Shaw

Memorials of the Clan Shaw

William George Shaw

Andrew Macpherson of Cluny (no date), succeeded by— XIV.-John his brother, who gets a Charter of the lands of Tullich, &c., 1594, died in 1600, succeeded by his son— XV.-John Macpherson who gets a Charter (1613) de Tullich &c., and is  ...
Men Against the State

Men Against the State

James J[oseph] Martin

Included are letters and sketches by such associates and acquaintances as George Bernard Shaw, Henry L. Mencken, John William Lloyd, Ernest Armand, George E. MacDonald, Clarence Lee Swartz and Henry Meulen. 2. Tucker later ...
Bernard Shaw and Nancy Astor

Bernard Shaw and Nancy Astor

Bernard Shaw

This collection of nearly 250 letters between Shaw and Astor - as well as between Astor and Shaw's wife, Charlotte, and Shaw's secretary, Blanche Patch - illustrates the rewarding friendship the two shared and the numerous issues they ...
Victorians and mystery: crises of representation

Victorians and mystery: crises of representation

William David Shaw

Victorian literature, according to Shaw, gives rise to a wealth of questions and mysteries.
Shaw's daughters: dramatic and narrative constructions of gender

Shaw's daughters: dramatic and narrative constructions of gender

J. Ellen Gainor

A critical reexamination of George Bernard Shaw's dramatic treatment of women.
Origins of the Monologue: The Hidden God

Origins of the Monologue: The Hidden God

William David Shaw

Focusing on such pricipal creators as Browning and Tennyson, Shaw shows how changes in cultural history can transform a major poetic genre.
Plays Unpleasant

Plays Unpleasant

George Bernard Shaw

He is seen championing Shakespeare the poet as emphatically as Isben the social thinker, while his campaign to convert Irving to Ibsenism is seen in the essays and is discussed temperately in the Introduction.Keywords: Bernard Shaw Mrs ...
Journal of Education

Journal of Education

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By A. C. JONES, MA., Ph.D.. and P. H. WVKES, M.A. Without Answers, 5s.; with Answers, 5s. ... Norman O'Neill Geoffrey Shaw George Rathbone Dr. Harold Darke Q. von Hoist Thomas F. Dunhill Martin Shaw Liza Lehmann Ernest Farrar Dr.
Babel and the Ivory Tower: The Scholar in the Age of Science

Babel and the Ivory Tower: The Scholar in the Age of Science

William David Shaw

The Scholar in the Age of Science William David Shaw. 8. From. Maps. to. Models: Closed. and. Open. Knowledge. Mortimer R. Radish, a recent defender of cultural laissez-faire, advocates free trade in ideas and equal concern and ...
A Dictionary of Literary Pseudonyms in the English Language

A Dictionary of Literary Pseudonyms in the English Language

T.J. Carty

... Felicia Mary Frances Skene SEVERAL YOUNG PERSONS Jane Taylor with Ann Taylor SEVERN, DAVID David Storr ... Griffiths SHAW, FELICITY Ann Morice SHAW, GORDON Stanley Gordon Shaw SHAW, IRENE Irene Roberts SHAW, ...
Mark Twain

Mark Twain

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Frederick Anderson ... Scribner'sfi Sedgwick, Arthur (£13 Shaw, George Bernard Shaw, H. W., see Billings, losli Simboli, Rafiiaeli,fi Sintenis, FranzE slavcryfisljso Smart Set Smedes, Mrs SpeakerJE SFectaIorJEJE Stanley, Hiram Mali, 5! Stead  ...
Secrets of the Oracle: A History of Wisdom from Zeno to Yeats

Secrets of the Oracle: A History of Wisdom from Zeno to Yeats

William David Shaw

Where can we find it? And what does it mean in our lives?Shaw explores these questions by turning to the works of wisdom writers, whose words retain their meaning and transformative power even centuries after they were written.
Henrik Ibsen: A Doll's House

Henrik Ibsen: A Doll's House

S. H. Siddall

The book discusses responses to Ibsen, especially those of George Bernard Shaw and William Archer in London, and the relationship of the play to issues of theatrical censorship. (More modern treatments, like the remarkable ones by Ingmar ...
Report of the Commissioners Appointed by His Majesty William ...

Report of the Commissioners Appointed by His Majesty William ...

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1835-36. , George Gray James Riddel William Reid George Morrison John Christie John Summers John Hay Wm. Gav. ... William Peters William G. Blaikie Henry Paterson Robert Reid George Wilson James Ronald Alexander Booth Robert G.
The Law Journal

The Law Journal

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... James Wicking Needham, Robert Nelson, Herbert Walter Nelson, Percy Nelson, William Wooding Nesfield, George Blow Newborn, George Hope Newton , Walter Haydon Nicholas, John William Nichols, George Aplin North, William Nowell, ...
The Chicago Medical Journal and Examiner

The Chicago Medical Journal and Examiner

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... William Robert Freek, Dexter Boylston Farnsworth, John Welton Fisher, George Washington Gurnea, George Frederick Gay, William Martin Graham, William Orlando Harland, Edwin William Hunter, Charles Addison Hayes, Hamilton Worth  ...
Elegy & Paradox: Testing the Conventions

Elegy & Paradox: Testing the Conventions

William David Shaw

In the first book to ask whether a historical and critical knowledge of the genre elegy is still really possible, W. David Shaw shows how the elegist's testing of conventions poses new crises for understanding and new shocks to values and ...
George Bernard Shaw: His Plays

George Bernard Shaw: His Plays

Henry Louis Mencken

Intended as a "little handbook" for Americans interested in Shaw's work, this volume brings Mencken's good sense & probing criticism to bear on the playwright's work, & also presents for the reader Mencken's distillation of the criticism of ...
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A correct copy of the poll as taken at the election for ...

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Cox, Christopher Cooper, George ("Creak, Robert Canham, Thomas Cooper, William Clarke, William a Chadd, George Coates, Daniel Cadman. William Cary, Thos. Wolsey cCollison, Thomas Cuthbert, Samuel Candler, William Chamberlin,  ...
Lines of Battle: Letters from American Servicemen, 1941-1945

Lines of Battle: Letters from American Servicemen, 1941-1945

Annette Tapert

... Mitchell R. Sharpe; Micki Shaw Cox for Teddy Shaw; Mary Hope Ska- litzky Hladilek for John Skalitzky; Curtis (Speedy) Spach; David Thomas; Sergeant Harry Towne; William H. Vana; Ann Free- hafer Andersen and Lucy Freehafer Wold for ...
A History of Private Bill Legislation: (2 Volume Set)

A History of Private Bill Legislation: (2 Volume Set)

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R. E.), J. R. McClean, Samuel Whitbread, John T.Hibbert, Evan M. Richards, George Clive, Francis S.Powell, Benjamin Shaw, James Paget, HenryW. Acland, R. Christison, William Stokes, John Lambert, Francis T.Bircham. 34 Royal ...

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