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02233aam a2200325Ii 4500 001 7070281C7CB711EB8C51190E5AECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210304010025 008 201029s2020 enka b u001 0deng d 010 $a 2019951497 020 $a 0198850093 020 $a 9780198850090 035 $a (OCoLC)1202271603 040 $a KEI $b eng $e rda $c KEI $d OCLCO $d YDX $d BDX $d TOH $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDXIT $d SILO 050 4 $a PR5367 W59 2020 100 1 $a Wixson, Christopher, $e author. 245 10 $a George Bernard Shaw : $b a very short introduction / $c Christopher Wixson. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Oxford, United Kingdom ; $b Oxford University Press, $c 2020. 300 $a xvi, 139 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 18 cm. 490 1 $a Very short introductions ; $v 650 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-134) and index. 520 $a George Bernard Shaw has been called the second greatest playwright in English (after William Shakespeare) and one of the inventors of modern celebrity as the most famous public intellectual of his time. Beginning in the 1880s, as a critic and as a playwright, he transformed British drama, bringing to it intellectual substance, ethical imperatives, and modernity itself, setting the theatrical course for the subsequent century. That his legacy endures seventy years after his death is testament to the prescience of his thinking and his prolific creativity. This Very Short Introduction looks at Shaw's life, starting with his upbringing in Ireland, and then takes a chronological approach through his works. Considering Shaw's committed antagonism on behalf of a range of socio-political issues; his use of comedy as a mode for communicating serious ideas; and his rhetorical style that pushes conventional boundaries, Christopher Wixson provides an overview of the creative evolution of core themes throughout Shaw's long career. 600 10 $a Shaw, Bernard, $d 1856-1950. 600 10 $a Shaw, Bernard, $d 1856-1950 $x Criticism and interpretation. 830 0 $a Very short introductions ; $v 650. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210707013816.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7070281C7CB711EB8C51190E5AECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search