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... Shaw . His diversified career has thus far covered the great span of eighty - five years . Shaw was born in Dublin , in 1856 , into a middle - class family of reduced circumstances . In 1876 , he went to London . It is hard to trace the ...
... Shaw . His diversified career has thus far covered the great span of eighty - five years . Shaw was born in Dublin , in 1856 , into a middle - class family of reduced circumstances . In 1876 , he went to London . It is hard to trace the ...
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... Shaw was the strongest English advocate of Ibsen , and wrote a book entitled The Quintessence of Ibsenism . The two volumes of Shaw's collected Dramatic Opinions and Es- says rank with Lessing's Hamburg Dramaturgy as a body of criticism ...
... Shaw was the strongest English advocate of Ibsen , and wrote a book entitled The Quintessence of Ibsenism . The two volumes of Shaw's collected Dramatic Opinions and Es- says rank with Lessing's Hamburg Dramaturgy as a body of criticism ...
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... Shaw's works . It has already established its lasting qualities and is no doubt destined to live on every vital stage for years to come , through its profound searching of human character . In its loosely sprawling form it somewhat ...
... Shaw's works . It has already established its lasting qualities and is no doubt destined to live on every vital stage for years to come , through its profound searching of human character . In its loosely sprawling form it somewhat ...
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