Shaw and history
By: edited by Gale K. Larson.
Contributors: Larson, Gale Kjelshus.
Series: Shaw ;; v. 19
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: University Park
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 -- Knowledge -- History; Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Historical drama, English -- History and criticism
Notes: Bibliography: p. [187]-219.
Table of contents: title: General introduction: Shaw and history / Gale K. Larson; title: Cetewayo: Shaw's first hero from history / Stanley Weintraub; title: Mrs. Warren's profession and the politics of prostitution / John Allett; title: Evangelizing the Garden City? / Sidney P. Albert; title: "The dark lady": G.B.S. replies to Mr. Frank Harris / Bernard Shaw; title: The first night of O'Flaherty, V.C. / David Gunby; title: The first Shaw play on the Chinese stage: the production of Mrs. Warren's profession in 1921 / Wendi Chen; title: Too true to be good: the bottomless abyss following World War I / Rodelle Weintraub; title: Federal theatre's Androcles and the lion: Shaw in black and white / Michael M. O'Hara; title: "In good King Charles's golden days": an imaginative and truthful history / Gale K. Larson; title: Ballycorus and the Folly: in search of Perivale St. Andrews / Sidney P. Albert; title: Reviews:  The Burgunder Shaw collection ("The instinct of an artist" / Shaw and the Theatre. An exhibition from the Bernard F. Burgunder Collection of George Bernard Shaw, edited by Ann L. Ferguson) / Stanley Weintraub ; Two by Shaw (Bernard Shaw on cinema, and Not bloody likely!, edited by Bernard F. Dukore) / Charles A. Berst ; Writings for "The dreaded Weintraub" (Shaw and other matters: a Festschrift for Stanley Weintraub on the occasion of his forty-second anniversary at the Pennsylvania State University, edited by Susan Rusinko) / Sally Peters; title: A continuing checklist of Shaviana / John R. Pfeiffer.