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George Bernard Shaw, his life and works

Chapter 1: GEORGE BERNARD SHAW HIS LIFE AND WORKS
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A critical biography traces the life and career of a prominent dramatist, combining a chronological narrative of personal and professional development with close readings of major plays. Drawing on extensive correspondence and contemporary press material, the author situates artistic output within wider intellectual and political currents — collectivist politics, Ibsen‑Nietzschean moral critique, reactions against materialist doctrines, Wagnerian musical influence, and the anti‑romantic turn in literature and art — and follows the subject's rise from early struggles to international recognition. Supplementary illustrations, facsimiles, and documentary extracts support the critical commentary and historical framing.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
HIS LIFE AND WORKS


A CRITICAL BIOGRAPHY


(Authorized)


By


ARCHIBALD HENDERSON, M.A., Ph.D.


Of the University of North Carolina


With 33 Illustrations, including two Plates in Colour (one from an autochrome
by Alvin Langdon Coburn, the other from a water-colour by Bernard
Partridge), two Photogravures (Coburn and Steichen),
and numerous facsimiles in the text


STEWART & KIDD COMPANY

CINCINNATI
1911