Titlebook: Edwardian Shaw; The Writer and his A Leon Hugo Book 1999 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1999 crusades.Georg

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1901–1910: Transformationthe nineteenth century and by the late 1880s, when Shaw began to work his way into the national dailies and weeklies, it had grown prodigiously to become a communication medium of previously unimagined range and scope. Several factors contributed to this: political interests, the development of tech

AGONY

1890–1904: Private Venture, Public Enterprisest though they were, they gave him his . to the theatre, and without this it is likely that his impact as a playwright on Edwardian England, when opportunity presented itself at the Court Theatre, would have been considerably less emphatic than it was.

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1904–1907: The Twenty-Nine Percentershe Court. The call for new English playwrights, first sounded by Grein and continued by the Stage Society, had a meagre response in the 1890s and early 1900s. Grein’s biggest fish, the only one worth mentioning, was Shaw; the Stage Society hooked two more, Barker and St John Hankin, but Shaw, with a

蝕刻

1904–1905: Shavian Farragoes He wrote . in 1904, in a rush, against time, but a play on the perennial ‘Irish Question’, or as he put it, ‘on the contrast between Irish and English character’,. had been in gestation since 1900 at least. It was at this time that he first sounded W. B. Yeats on the matter. Yeats seemed to like th

Metastasis

1905–1906: Shavian Profanitiesofessed to be disgusted, telling Vedrenne that the production had gone to pieces. ‘An abominable, coarse, careless, play-for-laughs, third class suburban performance. Tell [the cast] so.’. . followed from 23 October. No duration of run was indicated on the playbill but it evidently ran through Novem

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1906–July 1907: Shavian Bad Taste of Shaw’s Irish play, which reached 121 performances at the end of its run. It was followed on 27 October by ., which ran through November and well into December. Meanwhile Galsworthy’s . launched the matinee season on 25 September; it was followed by Hankin’s . on 23 October. It was a crowded and

燈絲

臭了生氣

1907–1908: Storming the Citadelash in the very big pond that constituted theatrical London. Yet there had been several triumphs and Vedrenne and Barker, subduing the still small voice of caution and excited by the prospect of repeating such triumphs in the heart of the citadel, may be excused for allowing their hopes to run away

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1908–1909: Down with the Censor!tory of stage censorship since its introduction in 1737, raised the question of the Tightness or wrongness of the practice in the new century. In the next year and a half this would become quite the burning issue of the day, if not to the public at large, certainly to playwrights, theatre managers,

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