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Page 129
... Shaw , yet he is still worth our contemplation . Let us cast a look back over his career . George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin , July 26 , 1856 , the son of shabby - genteel parents who had con- nections with the Irish nobility . The ...
... Shaw , yet he is still worth our contemplation . Let us cast a look back over his career . George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin , July 26 , 1856 , the son of shabby - genteel parents who had con- nections with the Irish nobility . The ...
Page 137
... Shaw , it is the dramatic poet . The volume which covers the wartime exposes Ber- nard Shaw's contradictions in a particularly striking manner . Though he was perfectly familiar with the Marxist theory of capitalist expansion and ...
... Shaw , it is the dramatic poet . The volume which covers the wartime exposes Ber- nard Shaw's contradictions in a particularly striking manner . Though he was perfectly familiar with the Marxist theory of capitalist expansion and ...
Page 157
... Shaw manages to throw it through his epilogue , it was the first genuine tragedy that Shaw had written . The horror of Back to Methuselah is a lunar horror ; the horror of Saint Joan is human . The saint is suppressed by the practical ...
... Shaw manages to throw it through his epilogue , it was the first genuine tragedy that Shaw had written . The horror of Back to Methuselah is a lunar horror ; the horror of Saint Joan is human . The saint is suppressed by the practical ...
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