Who's Afraid of Bernard Shaw? Some Personalities in Shaw's Plays |
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| Author:
| Weintraub, Stanley |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8130-4471-2 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2013 |
| Publisher: | University Press of Florida
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $41.20AUD $36.00 |
Book Description:
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People known to Bernard Shaw had every reason to fear becoming recognisable characters in his plays. He turned Winston Churchill into an aspiring, blowhard politician in John Bull's Other Island, and Lawrence of Arabia into the eccentric army private Napoleon Alexander Trotsky Meek in Too True to Be Good. However, as Stanley Weintraub reveals in this collection, Shaw's relationships to real or imagined personalities could be both curiously unexpected and deliciously complex.
People known to Bernard Shaw had every reason to fear becoming recognisable characters in his plays. He turned Winston Churchill into an aspiring, blowhard politician in John Bull's Other Island, and Lawrence of Arabia into the eccentric army private Napoleon Alexander Trotsky Meek in Too True to Be Good. However, as Stanley Weintraub reveals in this collection, Shaw's relationships to real or imagined personalities could be both curiously unexpected and deliciously complex.