SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies. Vol. 5: Shaw Abroad
In addition to providing much fascinating new material about Bernard Shaw, this volume covers so much of his active lifefrom 1889, before his first play was completed, through his world travels of the 1930s that it comes close to being a biography of the public Shaw as well as a probing look at the private Shaw.Shaws first travels were to Bayreuth as a Wagner pilgrim and to Holland and Belgium for their art and theater. Italy was next, and the result was Shaws selfstyled PreRaphaelite play, Candida. Shaw visited Sweden and met the irascible Strindberg, whose notorious plays he admired, and returned many times to IrelandJohn Bulls Other Islandas tourist and selfexile. Crossings to Francea nation he disliked with Anglophilic intensityled to Saint Joan and The Six of Calais, while visits to Italy in his sixties and seventies are seen here, in a remarkable exploration certain to stir controversy, as a last surging of Shaws banked amorous fires, with repercussions in the later plays.In his later travels Shaw became enmeshed in other countries politics, sometimes deliberately, sometimes unawares; he was a political myopic in Russia, a pawn in Yugoslavia, a gadfly in Japan as well as in Hong Kong and China, and a prophet in South Africa, where he wrote The Black Girlin Search of God. Voyages to India and New Zealand led to his mystical and misunderstood The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles. In the United States he spoke from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera, hobnobbed with cinema stars in Hollywood, and admiredif nothing else in Americathe Grand Canyon.Included is a littleknown article by G.B.S. on how to cross Switzerland speedily by auto without being picked up by the police, and a typically cantankerous pair of interviews on visiting the Holy Land.
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In addition to providing much fascinating new material about Bernard Shaw, this volume covers so much of his active lifefrom 1889, before his first play was completed, through his world travels of the 1930s that it comes close to being a biography of the public Shaw as well as a probing look at the private Shaw.Shaws first travels were to Bayreuth as a Wagner pilgrim and to Holland and Belgium for their art and theater. Italy was next, and the result was Shaws selfstyled PreRaphaelite play, Candida. Shaw visited Sweden and met the irascible Strindberg, whose notorious plays he admired, and returned many times to IrelandJohn Bulls Other Islandas tourist and selfexile. Crossings to Francea nation he disliked with Anglophilic intensityled to Saint Joan and The Six of Calais, while visits to Italy in his sixties and seventies are seen here, in a remarkable exploration certain to stir controversy, as a last surging of Shaws banked amorous fires, with repercussions in the later plays.In his later travels Shaw became enmeshed in other countries politics, sometimes deliberately, sometimes unawares; he was a political myopic in Russia, a pawn in Yugoslavia, a gadfly in Japan as well as in Hong Kong and China, and a prophet in South Africa, where he wrote The Black Girlin Search of God. Voyages to India and New Zealand led to his mystical and misunderstood The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles. In the United States he spoke from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera, hobnobbed with cinema stars in Hollywood, and admiredif nothing else in Americathe Grand Canyon.Included is a littleknown article by G.B.S. on how to cross Switzerland speedily by auto without being picked up by the police, and a typically cantankerous pair of interviews on visiting the Holy Land.
