Christopher Wixson (Eastern Illinois University)

George Bernard Shaw

A Very Short Introduction

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Produktbeschreibung

Christopher Wixson introduces George Bernard Shaw, the greatest playwright in English after Shakespeare. Taking a chronological approach through his works, he provides an overview of Shaw's sensibility as a writer, and studies the creative evolution of core themes and styles throughout his long career.

Produktdetails

• Very Short Introductions
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 174mm x 113mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 126g
• ISBN-13: 9780198850090
• ISBN-10: 0198850093
• Artikelnr.: 59344212

Autorenporträt

Christopher Wixson is Professor of English and Theatre Arts at Eastern Illinois University, USA. He teaches advanced courses in early modern drama and modernism, script analysis and dramaturgy, and general courses in writing and literature. He has published widely on twentieth-century British and American drama, including Bernard Shaw and Modern Advertising, Prophet Motives (Palgrave Macmillan 2018), and is General Editor of the bi-annual scholarly journal SHAW: The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
"Shavian"
1: "GBS"
2: "Unpleasant"
3: "Pleasant"
4: "Puritan"
5: "Political"
6: "Extravagant"
7: "Farfetched"