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Page 135
... plays he had been writing in note - books while traveling on the tops of buses between one engagement and another . Now in 1898 , when he was forty - two , he had what seems to have been a general collapse as the result of a bad fall ...
... plays he had been writing in note - books while traveling on the tops of buses between one engagement and another . Now in 1898 , when he was forty - two , he had what seems to have been a general collapse as the result of a bad fall ...
Page 151
... plays a prominent part . But it does not play a consistent part : the dynamic principle in Shaw is made to animate a variety of forces . Let us see what these forces are and to what pur- pose they interact . IV What are the real themes ...
... plays a prominent part . But it does not play a consistent part : the dynamic principle in Shaw is made to animate a variety of forces . Let us see what these forces are and to what pur- pose they interact . IV What are the real themes ...
Page 153
... plays do not really ex- plain them any more than The Quintessence of Ibsen- ism really explains Ibsen . The principal pattern which recurs in Bernard Shaw - aside from the duel between male and female , which seems to me of much less ...
... plays do not really ex- plain them any more than The Quintessence of Ibsen- ism really explains Ibsen . The principal pattern which recurs in Bernard Shaw - aside from the duel between male and female , which seems to me of much less ...
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