Bernard Shaw and Noël Coward

Conversation Pieces
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-90290-1
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 213 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 406 g

Reihe: Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries

This book tracks dramaturgical affinities between some of Bernard Shaw’s late “extravagant” plays and those of Noël Coward, in particular their recasting of one another’s style and the tradition of manners comedy. While Coward’s first play ( all but plagiarizes

“Christopher Wixson mines Shaw’s rarely-explored engagement with the work of Noël Coward, examining both writers' highly experimental plays from the 1930s in light of such important issues as postwar disillusionment, racial difference, and post-coloniality.”

Michel Pharand, Queen's University

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wixson, Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introduction: Bernard Shaw and Noël Coward.- Chapter 2: Born Bosses and Lost Dogs.- Chapter 3: “Native” Revolts.- Chapter 4: Entropical Turns.- Chapter 5: Why The Life Force Would Not.

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher Wixson is Professor of English and Theatre at Eastern Illinois University, USA. His scholarly writing has appeared (in most cases, more than once) in , , the ,, , e, , , , , , and . He is the author of (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and (2020). Since 2017, he has served as the General Editor of .