Bernard Shaw's Marriages and Misalliances
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Bernard Shaw's Marriages and Misalliances

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Bernard Shaw's Marriages and Misalliances

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This book combines the insights of thirteen Shavian scholars as they examine the themes of marriage, relationships and partnerships throughout all of Bernard Shaw's major works. It also connects Shaw's own experiences of love and marriage to the themes that emerge in his works, showing how his personal relationships in and out of matrimonial bonds change the ways his characters enter and exit marriages and misalliances. While providing a wealth of new analysis, this collection of essays also leaves lingering questions for the reader to spark continuing dialogue in both individual and academic settings.

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Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. Contents
  3. Editor and Contributors
  4. Notes on Collection Abbreviations
  5. List of Figures
  6. Chapter 1 Shaw’s Early Writings: A Prologue to the Playwright
  7. Chapter 2 The “Mystical Union” De-Mystified: Marriage in Plays Unpleasant
  8. Chapter 3 The Pragmatic Partnerships of Plays Pleasant
  9. Chapter 4 Three Plays for Puritans: Decoy Marriages and Social Contracts
  10. Chapter 5 Not Really a Philanderer
  11. Chapter 6 Shaw’s Salvation Trilogy: Man and Superman, John Bull’s Other Island, Major Barbara
  12. Chapter 7 Marriage and Mating in the Plays of Bernard Shaw and Granville Barker, 1908–1911
  13. Chapter 8 Ruled by Autonomy: Women’s Evolving Marital Choices from the Doctor’s Dilemma (1906) to Pygmalion (1914)
  14. Chapter 9 From Ellie to Eve: The Quintessence of Marriage in Shaw’s Heartbreak House, Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress, and Back to Methuselah
  15. Chapter 10 Beyond Married Love: Shaw, Stopes, and Female Desire in the Drama Between the Wars, 1923–1934
  16. Chapter 11 Definitions of Marriage: Village Wooing, On the Rocks, and The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles: A Vision of Judgment
  17. Chapter 12 Matrimonial Partnerships and Politics in Three Late Plays: “In Good King Charles’s Golden Days”: A True History That Never Happened, The Apple Cart: A Political Extravaganza, and Geneva: Another Political Extravaganza
  18. Appendix A
  19. Divorce Decrees, Divorce Rate per 1000 Married Couples, and Petitions for Judicial Separation (England and Wales), 1851–1987
  20. Appendix B
  21. Marriage and Divorce: Liturgy and Legislation: Edited by L.W. Conolly
  22. Bibliography
  23. Index