Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries

Clare, David

Using close readings of Shaw's plays and letters, as well as archival research, David Clare illustrates that Shaw regularly placed Irish, Irish Diasporic, and surrogate Irish characters into his plays in order to comment on Anglo-Irish relations and to explore the nature of Irishness.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2015-11-17

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137543554

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-54043-0

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 207