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Edwardian Shaw

The Writer and his Age

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  • © 1999

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  1. Leon Hugo
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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction: G.B.S. in the 1890s

    1. Introduction: G.B.S. in the 1890s

      • Leon Hugo
      Pages 1-10

  3. 1901–1904 Educate, Agitate

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. January–May 1901: A Natural-Born Mountebank

      • Leon Hugo
      Pages 13-26

    3. 1901–1902: Pathological Effusions

      • Leon Hugo
      Pages 27-38

    4. 1903–1904: Fabian Shaw

      • Leon Hugo
      Pages 39-60

    5. 1903–1905: International Shaw

      • Leon Hugo
      Pages 61-82

    6. 1901–1910: Transformation

      • Leon Hugo
      Pages 83-90

  4. 1904-1907 The Court Theatre

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91
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    2. 1890–1904: Private Venture, Public Enterprise

      • Leon Hugo
      Pages 93-106

    3. 1904–1907: The Twenty-Nine Percenters

      • Leon Hugo
      Pages 107-129

    4. 1904–1905: Shavian Farragoes

      • Leon Hugo
      Pages 130-146

    5. 1905–1906: Shavian Profanities

      • Leon Hugo
      Pages 147-157

    6. 1906–July 1907: Shavian Bad Taste

      • Leon Hugo
      Pages 158-166

    7. 1904–1907: Price and Value

      • Leon Hugo
      Pages 167-180

  5. 1907-1910 Confront

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-181
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    2. 1907–1908: Storming the Citadel

      • Leon Hugo
      Pages 183-196

    3. 1908–1909: Down with the Censor!

      • Leon Hugo
      Pages 197-230

    4. 1910: Shavian Nastiness

      • Leon Hugo
      Pages 231-245

    5. 1910: Edwardian Shaw

      • Leon Hugo
      Pages 246-265
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About this book

Edwardian Shaw covers Shaw's campaigns and crusades in the crucial first ten years of the century, when his career hung in the balance. By going to contemporary documents and highlighting aspects of Shaw's career at this time, particularly his emergence as a moral revolutionary and playwright of original and disquieting power, Leon Hugo depicts a man who confronted a highly conservative world and managed by the force of his genius to stamp his personality on the age.

Reviews

"... a new and richly detailed picture of Shaw's emergence as a well-known, even notorious, public figure." - Choice

"Professor Hugo has followed his 1971 book Bernard Shaw: Playwright and Preacher with this new study certain to gain the attention and gratitude of readers" - The Independent Shavian

About the author

LEON HUGO, former Director of Graduate Studies and Head of the Department of English, University of South Africa. Author of Bernard Shaw: Playwright and Preacher and many research and critical articles on Shavian and related matters in the USA and UK. He has written several successful novels for children, as well as short stories and plays.

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