Bernard Shaw and the French / Michel W. Pharand [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pharand, Michel W.

Series:

The Florida Bernard Shaw series

The Florida Bernard Shaw series Bernard Shaw and the French

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950--Knowledge--France.

Shaw, Bernard.

Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950--Appreciation--France.

English drama--Appreciation--France.

English drama.

English drama--French influences.

France--In literature.

France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 412 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Foreword / R.F. Dietrich

1. Shaw in the Picture-Galleries: "I am no critic of Art"

2. Shaw in the Concert Halls: "I purposely vulgarized musical criticism"

3. The Old Grooves: Shaw and the French Theater

4. The Siren on the Rock: An Exasperation with Sarah Bernhardt

5. The Ruthless Revealer: An Encomium to Eugene Brieux

6. Shaw Frenchified: Augustin and Henriette Hamon Rewrite Shaw

7. Outrageous: Shaw and the French Press

8. The Trials of Jeanne d'Arc: From Peasant-Warrior to Piteous Waif

9. Jeanne after Joan: Shaw's Joan and Two French Incarnations

10. The Disabled Skeptic: A Limited Esteem for Anatole France

11. Shaw's Man of Destiny: The Decline and Fall of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-395) and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-8130-2894-9