Hamlet by William Shakespeare, and: Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw

2018 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-94
Author(s):  
Rachel Evans
Keyword(s):  
William Shakespeare ◽  
George Bernard Shaw ◽  
Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw: A Very Short Introduction

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Wixson
Keyword(s):  
William Shakespeare ◽  
George Bernard Shaw ◽  
Public Intellectuals ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Creative Evolution ◽  
Bernard Shaw ◽  
First Time

George Bernard Shaw: A Very Short Introduction provides an accessible foundation for those discovering George Bernard Shaw’s writing for the first time. The verbosity and scope of Shaw’s writing can at times feel daunting. With a canon of plays astonishing in size, breadth, and ambition, Shaw is considered the second greatest playwright in English behind William Shakespeare. The range and popularity of his work as journalist, essayist, and polemicist as well as playwright made him one of the world’s most recognizable public intellectuals and literary figures. Charting the contours of what constitutes ‘Shavian’, this VSI traces the creative evolution of core themes and styles over Shaw’s long career.

scholarly journals Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy and the Influence of English Literature

2019 ◽  
Vol IV (II) ◽  
pp. 536-545
Author(s):  
Amara Khan ◽  
Zainab Akram ◽  
Irfan Ullah
Keyword(s):  
William Shakespeare ◽  
English Language ◽  
Mark Twain ◽  
English Literature ◽  
George Bernard Shaw ◽  
Original Form ◽  
Global Literature ◽  
The World ◽  
Personal Library ◽  
Bernard Shaw

While Tolstoy is regarded as the greatest writer of global literature and his work being translated into all major languages of the world, his literary relationship with the literature in the English language is largely ignored. The paper explores the influence of the Anglophone scholars and literary figures on the formation of Tolstoy as a great pillar of literature. The paper explores the influence of English and American writers by detailing the contents of his personal library, publications and diary entries. H.D. Thoreau, R.W. Emerson, Longfellow, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Laurence Stern, Ernest Miller Hemingway, William Shakespeare, and George Bernard Shaw. His moral rectitude, his love for realism and his humanism find a close connection with the mentioned writers, and the paper details this connection. The paper establishes the position that Tolstoy was a person with the greatest creativity and imagination, he was open to the formative influence and in the process forged his original form of the influence he imbibed in his realistic writings.

scholarly journals PYGMALION: A STUDY OF SOCIO-SEMANTICS

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 202
Author(s):  
Mirjam Anugerahwati
Keyword(s):  
Communicative Competence ◽  
George Bernard Shaw ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Bernard Shaw ◽  
The Way

This article discusses the novel Pygmalionby George Bernard Shaw (1957) which depicts Eliza, a flower girl from East London, who became the subject of an “experiment” by a Professor of Phonetics who vowed to change the way she spoke. The story is an excellent example of a very real and contextual portrait of how language, particularly socio-semantics, play a role in the achievement of communicative competence.

scholarly journals Análise descritiva da tradução de Millôr Fernandes para o português da peça “Pygmalion”, de George Bernard Shaw

2008 ◽  
pp. 67-83
Author(s):  
Priscila Fernanda Furlanetto
Keyword(s):  
George Bernard Shaw ◽  
Bernard Shaw

As obras de um dos mais conhecidos humoristas brasileiros, Millôr Fernandes, já foram bastante exploradas pelos pesquisadores de uma forma geral. Mesmo assim, há ainda uma vertente desse autor a ser estudada: o Millôr Tradutor.

Millennial Dark Ladies

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-92
Author(s):  
Katherine Scheil
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
George Bernard Shaw ◽  
Central Figure ◽  
Anthony Burgess ◽  
Victorian Period ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Bernard Shaw

The Dark Lady evoked in Shakespeare’s Sonnets has been the subject of numerous speculations since the Victorian period. Several male writers and critics – George Bernard Shaw, Frank Harris, A. L. Rowse and Anthony Burgess, for example – have undertaken extended imaginative explorations of this alternative woman. More recently, the Dark Lady has become a central figure in millennial novels by women writers, designed primarily for a female reading audience. This article considers what’s at stake by placing this imaginary woman at the heart of Shakespeare’s artistic inspiration, and what this tells us about the meaning(s) of ‘Shakespeare’ for contemporary women writers and readers.

J. M. Barrie’s Gothic: Ghosts, Fairy Tales and Lost Children

2017 ◽  
pp. 155-167
Author(s):  
Sarah Dunnigan
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
George Bernard Shaw ◽  
Peter Pan ◽  
Bernard Shaw

In his obituary of J. M. Barrie, George Bernard Shaw called his plays ‘terrifying’. Although Peter Pan (first performed in 1904) had long become a cherished children’s fantasy and a staple of Christmas theatricals, Shaw seemed more perturbed than enchanted by it (1993: 151). Barrie is seldom described as a Gothic writer, although his own well-known and often reductively understood biography has been ‘Gothicised’ into a dark psycho-narrative. Rather than use the latter to suggest Barrie’s election to the Scottish Gothic canon, this chapter takes its cue from recent work by R. D. S. Jack (2010), Valentina Bold and Andrew Nash (2014) and others, who demonstrate how Barrie is a writer of complexity and contradiction. The generic and thematic range of Barrie’s writing means that he is not a consistent or fully fledged Gothic writer but nevertheless Gothicism still inks a recurrent pattern of motifs and ideas in his work.

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