Shaw, Synge, Connolly, and Socialist Provocation

ISBN-13: 9780813044408 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 288 str.

Nelson O. Ritschel

Opis

George Bernard Shaw has always been regarded as a political provocateur and socialist with ideas that reflected a complicated public philosophy. Scholarship abounds on Shaw s politics, but Nelson Ritschel s compelling study is the first to explore how Shaw s presence in Irish radical debate manifested itself not only through his direct contributions but also through the way he and his efforts were engaged by others--most notably by the socially liberal dramatist J. M. Synge and the socialist agitator James Connolly.Looking closely at such works as In the Shadow of the Glen, John Bull s Other Island, Playboy of the Western World, and O Flaherty, V.C., Ritschel opens an important door on the hidden dialogue between these men. The result is a gripping, even suspenseful, narrative of the intellectual march to the Easter Uprising of 1916."