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Bernard Shaw's Marriages and Misalliances

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  • © 2017

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Editors:
  1. Robert A. Gaines

    1. Auburn University at Montgomery, Montgomery, USA

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  • Includes contributions from a range of renowned Shaw scholars
  • Combines literary analysis with biographical details
  • Ranges across all of Shaw’s original full-length plays and more

Part of the book series: Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries (BSC)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxv
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  2. Shaw’s Early Writings: A Prologue to the Playwright

    • Richard Farr Dietrich
    Pages 1-19

  3. The “Mystical Union” De-Mystified: Marriage in Plays Unpleasant

    • L. W. Conolly
    Pages 21-38

  4. The Pragmatic Partnerships of Plays Pleasant

    • Jennifer Buckley
    Pages 39-56

  5. Three Plays for Puritans: Decoy Marriages and Social Contracts

    • Lawrence Switzky
    Pages 57-74

  6. Not Really a Philanderer

    • Rodelle Weintraub
    Pages 75-87

  7. Shaw’s Salvation Trilogy: Man and Superman, John Bull’s Other Island, Major Barbara

    • Michel W. Pharand
    Pages 89-104

  8. Marriage and Mating in the Plays of Bernard Shaw and Granville Barker, 1908–1911

    • Peter Gahan
    Pages 105-123

  9. Ruled by Autonomy: Women’s Evolving Marital Choices from the Doctor’s Dilemma (1906) to Pygmalion (1914)

    • Ellen Ecker Dolgin
    Pages 125-142

  10. From Ellie to Eve: The Quintessence of Marriage in Shaw’s Heartbreak House, Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress, and Back to Methuselah

    • Audrey McNamara
    Pages 143-157

  11. Beyond Married Love: Shaw, Stopes, and Female Desire in the Drama Between the Wars, 1923–1934

    • D. A. Hadfield
    Pages 159-174

  12. Definitions of Marriage: Village Wooing, On the Rocks, and The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles: A Vision of Judgment

    • Jean Reynolds
    Pages 175-190

  13. Matrimonial Partnerships and Politics in Three Late Plays: “ In Good King Charles’s Golden Days ”: A True History That Never Happened, The Apple Cart: A Political Extravaganza, and Geneva: Another Political Extravaganza

    • Matthew Yde
    Pages 191-205

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 207-229
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About this book

This book combines the insights of thirteen Shavian scholars as they examine the themes of marriage, relationships and partnerships throughout all of Bernard Shaw’s major works. It also connects Shaw’s own experiences of love and marriage to the themes that emerge in his works, showing how his personal relationships in and out of matrimonial bonds change the ways his characters enter and exit marriages and misalliances. While providing a wealth of new analysis, this collection of essays also leaves lingering questions for the reader to spark continuing dialogue in both individual and academic settings.  

Editors and Affiliations

  • Auburn University at Montgomery, Montgomery, USA

    Robert A. Gaines

About the editor

Robert A. Gaines is Professor Emeritus at Auburn University Montgomery, USA, and holds a PhD from Indiana University. He has spent thirty-five years in university positions including Professor, Administrator, and Director of Theatre. His research interests are in classical theatre production, as are his publications, including John Neville Takes Command: The Story of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival. He has been a member of the International Shaw Society since its inception in 2004.

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