Bernard Shaw And The Actresses
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Behind every great playwright, it seems, stands a constellation of remarkable women — and no writer proved this more dramatically than George Bernard Shaw. Bernard Shaw and the Actresses is a richly detailed biography that chronicles the complex, often electric relationships between one of the twentieth century's greatest dramatists and the leading ladies who both inspired and infuriated him. Margot Peters traces Shaw's lifelong, compulsive entanglements with celebrated stage actresses — among them Ellen Terry, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, and Florence Farr — revealing how these passionate, intellectually charged bonds shaped not only his personal life but the very fabric of his dramatic work. Peters writes with a sharp, authoritative clarity that cuts through Shaw's legendary wit and self-mythologising to expose the man beneath the public persona. Her meticulous research and elegant prose illuminate the gender dynamics of the Victorian and Edwardian theatre world, presenting Shaw simultaneously as a champion of women's independence and a man capable of profound emotional manipulation. A landmark work of theatrical biography, this study leaves the reader questioning where the boundary lay between Shaw's art and his insatiable need for female inspiration — and whether, for him, there was ever any boundary at all.
Author: Margot Peters
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Behind every great playwright, it seems, stands a constellation of remarkable women — and no writer proved this more dramatically than George Bernard Shaw. Bernard Shaw and the Actresses is a richly detailed biography that chronicles the complex, often electric relationships between one of the twentieth century's greatest dramatists and the leading ladies who both inspired and infuriated him. Margot Peters traces Shaw's lifelong, compulsive entanglements with celebrated stage actresses — among them Ellen Terry, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, and Florence Farr — revealing how these passionate, intellectually charged bonds shaped not only his personal life but the very fabric of his dramatic work. Peters writes with a sharp, authoritative clarity that cuts through Shaw's legendary wit and self-mythologising to expose the man beneath the public persona. Her meticulous research and elegant prose illuminate the gender dynamics of the Victorian and Edwardian theatre world, presenting Shaw simultaneously as a champion of women's independence and a man capable of profound emotional manipulation. A landmark work of theatrical biography, this study leaves the reader questioning where the boundary lay between Shaw's art and his insatiable need for female inspiration — and whether, for him, there was ever any boundary at all.