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Bernard Shaw and Gilbert Murray

Bernard Shaw and Gilbert Murray

Carpenter, Charles A.

Hardcover

Series: Selected Correspondence of Bernard Shaw

Literary CriticismTheater HistoryPlays

ISBN10: 144264382X
ISBN13: 9781442643826
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Jun 20 2014
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Unlikely friends and collaborators, Bernard Shaw and Gilbert Murray carried on a lively and wide-ranging correspondence for more than fifty years. When they began exchanging letters in the late 1890s, Shaw was a renowned Fabian propagandist, reviewer, and author of anti-conventional plays. Murray was a classicist and translator of ancient Greek drama who would eventually become Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford. Beginning with their shared distaste for the popular well-made plays of the era, their correspondence quickly expanded into collaboration - Murray helped revise Shaw's Major Barbara, in which he appears as a character - and discussion of a vast range of issues ranging from alphabet reform and psychic phenomena to the League of Nations and international politics.

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