Judging Shaw
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Judging Shaw

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eBook - ePub

Judging Shaw

About this book

GBS was the first great brand – discover how he created this most modern of concepts.The fourth book in the Royal Irish Academy's award-winning 'Judging' series looks at the legacy of George Bernard Shaw, Nobel prizewinner for literature.George Bernard Shaw has left a vast legacy of theatrical, fictional, polemical, critical and philosophical writing. The first person to win both a Nobel Prize and an Academy Award, Shaw bridges the Victorian era and the contemporary culture of celebrity. The GBS brand came to be recognised globally as referring to an Irish provocateur with a red beard and startling opinions. He was a master of self-invention, a nobody who captured the zeitgeist and one of the first private individuals to understand fully how to generate—and how to use—global fame.The timing of Judging Shaw is fortuitous, as it will serve to reintroduce GBS to an Irish and international readership. The book is an interesting, informative, and well-written survey of Shaw/GBS and will be a welcome addition to the library of those who know Bernard Shaw perhaps only as the author of Pygmalion, his most popular and frequently performed play.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Chronology
  7. Introduction
  8. 1. The invention of GBS
  9. 2. Revolt into style: GBS versus England
  10. 3. After the revolution: GBS versus Ireland
  11. 4. The thinking cap and the jester’s bells: Shaw’s theatre
  12. 5. GBS’s war on poverty
  13. 6. The death and resurrection of GBS
  14. 7. The lethal chamber: the dark side of GBS
  15. 8. The air we breathe: judging GBS
  16. Endnotes
  17. Image credits