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by Charles A. Carpenter

  • ISBN: 0299053008
  • Category: Fiction
  • Author: Charles A. Carpenter
  • Subcategory: Dramas & Plays
  • Other formats: mbr lrf doc lit
  • Language: English
  • Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press; 1st edition (February 10, 1970)
  • Pages: 262 pages
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Bibliographic Details. Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI. Publication Date: 1969. Adopting this perspective, Charles Carpenter closely examines Shaw's first 10 plays, among them, such pivotal works as 'Mrs. Warren's Profession, Arms and the Man, Candida, and Caesar and Cleopatra. The chief strategy of these early plays, the author argues, is that of exploding the fondest delusions of spectators and readers: their unquestioned ideals. All books are returnable within thirty days if returned in the same condition as sent& with good reason.

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Charles A. Berst, Bernard Shaw and the Art of Drama (Urbana, Il. 1973) p. x. oogle Scholar. Charles A. Carpenter, Bernard Shaw and the Art of Destroying Ideals: The Early Plays (Madison, 1969), p. 16. 2. Shaw: The Critical Heritage, ed. T. F. Evans (London, 1976) pp. 96, 11. 4. Robert Brustein, The Theatre of Revolt (London, 1965) p. 20. 45. Bernard F. Dukore, Bernard Shaw, Playwright: Aspects of Shavian Drama (Columbia, M. 14. 57. Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex (London, 1901) pp. 151–2.

Charles Carpenter provides a new perspective on one of the most puzzling questions faced by Shaw .

Charles Carpenter provides a new perspective on one of the most puzzling questions faced by Shaw scholars: how to reconcile the artist's individualist leanings with his socialist Fabian ideals. He does so by viewing Shaw as a maverick whose approach was impossible to duplicate and grew out of his unique artistic temperament, his outlook, and his vocation. Carpenter, professor emeritus of English at Binghamton University, is the author of Modern Drama Scholarship and Criticism, 1960-1990; Dramatists and the Bomb: American and British Playwrights Confront the Nuclear Age, 1945-1964; and Bernard Shaw and the Art of Destroying Ideals: The Early Plays.

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George Bernard Shaw (/ˈbərnɑːrd/; 26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist

George Bernard Shaw (/ˈbərnɑːrd/; 26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1912) and Saint Joan (1923)

In Bernard Shaw and the Art of Destroying Ideals: The Early Plays. Treats Candida as a sentimental comedy and discusses the conflict of ideals in the play

In Bernard Shaw and the Art of Destroying Ideals: The Early Plays. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1969. Treats Candida as a sentimental comedy and discusses the conflict of ideals in the play (The entire section is 555 words. Unlock This Study Guide Now.

Shaw once referred to his dramaturgy as "a terrible art of sharpshooting at the audience." Adopting this perspective, Charles Carpenter closely examines Shaw's first 10 plays, among them, such pivotal works as 'Mrs. Warren's Profession, Arms and the Man, Candida, and Caesar and Cleopatra." The chief strategy of these early plays, the author argues, is that of exploding the fondest delusions of spectators and readers: their unquestioned ideals. Shaw regarded the destruction of ideals as a vital, ground-clearing step in the campaign for world-betterment which is apparent in all phases of his multifaceted career. Gradually shifting his attack in these early plays from specific attitudes toward society, especially those springing from the highly respected capitalist ethic, to the romantic and moral sentimentalities of Victorian England, and finally to revered but unrealistic models of heroism, he developed three distinct varieties of ideal-destroying drama, which the author describes as propaganda plays., critical comedies, and humanizations of heroic types of drama. These plays were designed to engage the audience in a subtle conflict of interests, leading, Shaw hoped, to a self-examination and reassessment of personal and popular values. The early plays culminate in the development of a new kind of heroic drama with a hero who is devoid of commitments to traditional institutions and morality. Instead, the most valued characteristic of Shaw's hero is wilfulness, the unconscious drive toward whatever may be necessary for the evolution of the race. The author analyzes each play in terms of the particular ideals it sets out to discredit and the realistic alternatives it unobtrusively recommends. He gives special attention to the role of artistic organization and dramatic technique in the Shavian "drama of ideas." The author draws extensively upon Shaw's letters and other nondramatic writings to support his conclusions.

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