Edwardian Shaw: The Writer and his Age [Hardcover]

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.Preface Introduction: G.B.S in the 1890s EDUCATE, AGITATE 1901-1904 January-May 1904: A Natural-Born Mountebank 1901-1902: Pathological Effusions 1903-1904: Fabian Shaw 1903-1905: International Shaw 1901-1910: Transformation THE COURT THEATRE: 1904-1907 1890-1904: Private Venture, Public Enterprise 1904-1907: The Twenty-Nine Percenters 1904-1905: Shavian Farragoes 1905-1906: Shavian Profanities 1906-July 1907: Shavian Bad Taste 1904-1907: Price and Value CONFRONT: 1907-1910 1907-1908: Storming the Citadel 1908-1909: Down with the Censor! 1910: Shavian Nastiness Edwardian Shaw POSTSCRIPT 1911: Fanny's First Play Notes Index

... 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

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.