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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950. Shaw on theatre. New York, Hill and Wang [1958] (OCoLC)568651712 |
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| Named Person: | Bernard Shaw |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Bernard Shaw |
| OCLC Number: | 322704 |
| Notes: | Essays, lectures, and reviews. |
| Description: | 306 p. 20 cm. |
| Contents: | Appendix to The quintessence of Ibsenism -- A dramatic realist to his critics -- Preface to The theatrical "world" of 1984, by William Archer -- How to lecture on Ibsen -- The problem play -a symposium -- The censorship of the stage in England -- On being a lady in high comedy -- Why Cyril Maude did not produce You can never tell -- How to make plays readable -- The dying tongue of great Elizabeth -- Letters to Louis Calvert on playing undershaft -- What is the finest dramatic situation? -- Mr. Trench's dramatic values -- On the principles that govern the dramatist -- To audiences at Major Barbara -- On cutting Shakespear -- Lord Grey, Shakespear, Mr. Archer, and others -- I am a classic but am I a Shakespear thief? -- Letter to J.T. Grein -- Shakespear: a standard text -- On Clive Bell's article -- Make them do it well -- Shakespear and the Stratford-upon-Avon Theatre: a plea for reconstruction -- On printed plays -- John Barrymore's Hamlet -- Theatres and reviews then and now -- The Colossus speaks -- Playhouses and plays -- Mr. Shaw on Mr. Shaw -- Bernard Shaw talks about actors and acting -- Speech as guest of honor at London Critics Circle annual luncheon -- On Gordon Craig's Henry Irving -- My first talkie -- Gordon Craig and the Shaw-Terry letters -- Arms and the man on the screen -- Too true to be good -- An aside -- Dramatic antiquities at Malvern -- Playwrights and amateurs -- The simple truth of the matter -- This year's program -- Saint Joan banned: film censorship in the United States -- On the festival habit -- The author's apology for Good King Charles -- Granville-Barker: some particulars -- My way with a play -- Sullivan, Shakespear, and Shaw -- Rules for directors -- The play of ideas. |
| Other Titles: | Prose works. |
| Responsibility: | Edited by E.J. West. |
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Essays, letters, and reviews.
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