The series Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries presents the best and most up-to-date research on Shaw and his contemporaries in a diverse range of cultural contexts. Volumes in the series will further the academic understanding of Bernard Shaw and those who worked with him, or in reaction against him, during his long career from the 1880s to 1950 as a leading writer in Britain and Ireland, and with a wide European and American following. Shaw defined the modern literary theatre in the wake of Ibsen as a vehicle for social change, while authoring a dramatic canon to rival Shakespeare’s. His careers as critic, essayist, playwright, journalist, lecturer, socialist, feminist, and pamphleteer, both helped to shape the modern world as well as pointed the way towards modernism. No one engaged with his contemporaries more than Shaw, whether as controversialist, or in his support of other, often younger writers. In many respects, therefore, the series as it develops will offer a survey of the rise of the modern at the beginning of the twentieth century and the subsequent varied cultural movements covered by the term modernism that arose in the wake of World War 1.

Titles in the Series

The Case for Terence Rattigan, Playwright Buy book from Publisher’s website Bertolini, J. A. (2016)

Bernard Shaw’s Irish Outlook Buy book from Publisher’s Website Clare, D. (2016)

Bernard Shaw’s Marriages and Misalliances Buy book from Publisher’s Website Gaines, B. (Ed) (2017)

Crimes and Punishments and Bernard Shaw Buy book from Publisher’s website Dukore, B. F. (2017)

Shaw’s Ibsen Buy book from Publisher’s website Templeton, J. (2017)

Bernard Shaw and Beatrice Webb on Poverty and Equality in the Modern World, 1905–1914 Buy book from Publisher’s website Gahan, P. (2017)

Bernard Shaw, W. T. Stead, and the New Journalism Buy book from Publisher’s website Ritschel, N. O. (2017)

Bernard Shaw’s Bridges to Chinese Culture Buy book from Publisher’s website Li, K. (2016)