This book combines the insights of thirteen Shavian scholars as they examine the themes of marriage, relationships and partnerships throughout all of Bernard Shaws major works. It also connects Shaws 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. ?
Preamble;?Robert A. Gaines.- 1.?Shaws Early Writings: A Prelude to the Playwright;?Richard Farr Dietrich.- 2.?The Mystical Union De-Mystified: Marriage in Plays Unpleasant;?L.W. Conolly.- 3.?The Pragmatic Partnerships of the Plays Pleasant;?Jennifer Buckley.- 4.?Three Plays for Puritans: Decoy Marriages and Social Contracts;?Lawrence Switzky.- 5.?Not Really a Philanderer;?Rodelle Weintraub.- 6.?Shaws Salvation Trilogy: Man and Superman, John Bulls Other Island, Major Barbara;?Michel Pharand.- 7.?Marriage and Mating in the plays of Bernard Shaw and Granville Barker 1908-1911;?Peter Gahan.- 8.?Ruled by Autonomy: Womens Evolving Material Choices from The Doctors Dilemma (1906) to Pygmalion (1914);?Ellen Ecker Dolgin.- 9.?From Elle to Eve: the Quintessence of Marriage in Shaws Heartbreak House, The Bolshevik Empress and Back to Methuselah;?Audrey McNamara.- 10.?Beyond /Married Love/: Shaw, Stopes, and Female Desire in the Drama between the Wars, 1923-1934;?D.A. Hadfield.-?11.?Definitions of Marriage: Village Wooing, On the Rocks and The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles: A Vision of Judgment;?Jean Reynolds.-?12.?Matrimonial Partnerships and Politics in Three Late Plays: In Good King Charless Golden Days: A True History that Never Happened, The Apple Cart: A Political Extravaganza, and Geneva: Another Political Extravaganza;?Matthew Yde.-?Appendix A:?Dl£+
![Bernard Shaw's Marriages and Misalliances [Hardcover]](/itemImage/2/0/9/7/2_761704.jpg "Bernard Shaw's Marriages and Misalliances [Hardcover] xxx")