Overview
- Represents the first book-length study of Shaw in relation to crime and punishment
- Looks to Shaw's non-dramatic writings, speeches and actions in addition to his plays
- Holds appeal for scholars of Victorian and twentieth-century history and politics, in addition to theatre and literature scholars
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries (BSC)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
Keywords
- Capital punishment
- American War of Independence
- Prostitution
- American Revolution
- Saint Joan
- Man and Superman
- Bernard Shaw
- Edwardian England
- Victorian England
- Women’s Suffrage Movement in Britain
- Police Brutality
- Capital Punishment
- American War of Independence
- Irish Rising Easter 1916
- Sir Roger Casement
- Circumventing the law
- The Devil’s Disciple
- Pygmalion
- Saint Joan
- Mrs. Warren’s Profession
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Reviews
“The purpose of Crimes and Punishments and Bernard Shaw was to provide ‘gateways’ that will ‘permit the reader to encounter [Shaw’s] drama and ideas in a fresh context.’ It has superbly fulfilled that purpose and will likely stand as the definitive treatment of this important topic.” (Michel Pharand, SHAW The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies, Vol. 358 (02), 2018)
“Impressive on both the levels of the very informative historical account of crimes and punishments and of Shaw’s relationship to all this from the opening chapter to the Grand Finale of Chapter 10...This is a very learned, up to date scholarly work. It competes well with the best scholarship on Shaw, is a very useful survey of crime and punishment over the centuries, and its bringing Shaw to a timely trial at the conclusion is masterfully if surprisingly done, leaving crucial questions to be asked and answered by each reader.” (Richard Dietrich, English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 (Volume 62, Number 4, 2019 2019)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Crimes and Punishments and Bernard Shaw
Authors: Bernard F. Dukore
Series Title: Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62746-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-62745-8Published: 27 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87382-4Published: 24 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-62746-5Published: 17 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-5811
Series E-ISSN: 2634-582X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 243
Topics: Theatre History, Performing Arts, British and Irish Literature