Bernard Shaw and St. John Hankin

Happy Endings
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-90220-8
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 241 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 446 g

Reihe: Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries

“This original study will no doubt draw attention to St. JohnHankin’s work, which may in turn receive further scrutiny from scholars, students, and theatre practitioners.”

Michel Pharand, Queen's University

This book proposes a vibrant intertextual dialogue between St. John Hankin’s manners comedies and what are considered Bernard Shaw’s “minor” Edwardian comedies and, after the war, some of his most experimental “extravagant” plays. Engaging thematic topics ranging from philanthropy and parenting to marital alliances and comic endings, their dramaturgy was truly in conversation over form and content as they re-purposedone another in a vital wrangling to direct the creative evolution of modern British comedy.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wixson, Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introduction: Bernard Shaw and St. John Hankin.- Chapter 2. Predatory Types.- Chapter 3. Missionary Positions.- Chapter 4. How Mothers Are Made.- Chapter 5. Bungled Burgles and Happy Cuckoos.- Chapter 6. Tyrants, Mothers, and Daughters.

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 .