The Politics and Plays of Bernard Shaw

by Judith Evans

Do politics and the playhouse go together? For Bernard Shaw they most certainly did. As a playwright with a message he saw the theatre as the ideal medium for conveying his view of life, which was essentially socialistic. The theatre was to Shaw a latter-day temple of the arts within a community. But Shaw was, of course, multi-voiced, not only through the characters he created but also in his own persona as public speaker, essayist, tract writer and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786413239
• ISBN13: 9780786413232
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Length: 225 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher