Bernard Shaw - a Pictorial biography (Art Ebook).pdf

Viking Press | 1962 | Eng | pdf | 144 p | 20 MB

In the course of his long career, Shaw dominated not only the English theatre but English letters generally, besides campaigning for social reform, producing newspaper criticisms of an unsurpassed quality, stimulating origin thought in others, and himself being hailed by some as the sage of his era. Others thought him a mere crank, a man who was interested only in publicizing himself by putting forward his often unwelcome opinions on every conceivable issue and question.

In this pictorial biography Margaret Shenfield gives a concise picture of the whole Shaw—the dramatist and the borough councillor, the sage and the crank, the man and the institution. The text covers the whole range of his activities in the theatre, in politics, and in private life, his writings, friends, and loves. The combination of an authoritative text and over a hundred carefully chosen and skilfully integrated photographs of Shavian people, places, manuscripts, and letters make this one of the most intriguing and stimulating books on Shaw ever published.