Shaw's people
Victoria to Churchill
by Stanley Weintraub
How could Bernard Shaw have found anything to admire in Queen Victoria? Or in the passionate evangelical "General" William Booth of the Salvation Army? What possible connections could there be between Shaw, the passionate socialist, and the Tory Winston Churchill, who seemed to represent everything Shaw should have rejected and despised? In Shaw's People, noted scholar Stanley Weintraub explores the relationships between Shaw and twelve of his contemporaries, including Queen Victoria, Oscar Wilde, H. L.
Mencken, James Joyce, and Winston Churchill. Weintraub chose these individuals as lenses through which to look at Shaw but also for the ways in which their lives are illuminated through their often paradoxical relationships with Shaw.
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Biography, Irish Dramatists, History, Friends and associates, Contemporaries, Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950, Contemporary Great Britain, 20th century, 19th century, Dramaturges irlandais, Biografie, Biographies, Histoire, Tijdgenoten, Zeitgenossen, Amis et relations, Contemporains, Friendship, Great britain, history, victoria, 1837-1901, Great britain, history, 20th centuryPlaces
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Shaw's people: Victoria to Churchill
1996, Pennsylvania State University Press
in English
0271015004 9780271015002
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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