The Companion to George Bernard Shaw

The Companion to George Bernard Shaw is an indispensable guide to one of the most influential and important dramatists of the theater. The volume offers a broad-ranging study of Shaw with essays by a team of leading scholars. The Companion covers all aspects of Shaw's drama, focusing both on the political and theatrical context, while the extensive illustrations showcase productions from the Shaw Festival in Canada. In addition to situating Shaw's work in its own time, the Companion demonstrates its continuing relevance, and applies some of the newest critical approaches.

Contents:

Shaw's life: a feminist in spite of himself / Sally Peters 
Imprinting the stage: Shaw and the publishing trade, 1883-1903 / Katherine E. Kelly 
New theatres for old / Charles A. Berst 
New women, new plays, and Shaw in the 1890s / Kerry Powell 
Shaw's early plays / Frederick J. Marker 
Shavian comedy and the shadow of Wilde / David J. Gordon 
Structure and philosophy in Man and Superman and Major Barbara / Fredric Berg 
"Nothing but talk, talk, talk - Shaw talk": discussion plays and the making of modern drama / Christopher Innes. Roads to Heartbreak House / Ronald Bryden 
Reinventing the history play: Caesar and Cleopatra, Saint Joan, "In Good King Charles's Golden Days" / Matthew H. Wikander 
Shaw's interstices of empire: decolonizing at home and abroad / Tracy C. Davis
Later Shaw / T.F. Evans
Shaw and the court theatre / Jan McDonald 
"Please remember, this is Italian opera": Shaw's plays as music-drama / J.L. Wisenthal 
Shaw and the popular context / Robert G. Everding.