SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies
General Editor: Fred D. Crawford
SHAW publishes general articles on Shaw and his milieu, reviews, notes, and the authoritative Continuing Checklist of Shaviana-the bibliography of Shaw studies. Every other year SHAW is devoted to a special theme.
Editorial Board: Elsie B. Adams, San Diego State University; Charles A. Berst, University of California at Los Angeles; R. F. Dietrich, University of South Florida; Bernard F. Dukore, Virginia Tech; Holly Hill, John Jay College of the City University of New York; Leon Hugo, University of South Africa; Frederick P. W. McDowell, University of Iowa; Michael J. Mendelsohn, University of Tampa; Margot Peters, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater; Ann Saddlemyer, Graduate Center for Study of Drama, University of Toronto; Alfred Turco, Jr., Wesleyan University; Stanley Weintraub, Penn State University; Jonathan Wisenthal, University of British Columbia.
SHAW AND OTHERPLAYWRIGHTS, Volume 13
Edited by John A. Bertolini
Illuminating studies of Shaw's work as a playwright and his influence on others.
The early conclusion that Shaw was mainly a magpie following the trails of many thinkers has led to the further consequence of neglecting Shaw's relationship to other playwrights. This volume of SHAW explores Shaw's play as inheritances and inspirations of dramatic art and also locates Shaw himself as a presence in the work of his contemporaries and successors.
The volume concentrates on Shaw in relation to other modern British playwrights, notably Wilde, Bennett, Rattigan, the Court Theatre playwrights, and Shaw's successors, from Coward to Stoppard. Gwyn Thomas's 1975 BBC play, The Ghost of Adelphi Terrace,puts Shaw and Barrie together on stage, and Shaw's 20 June 1937 Sunday Graphicobituary tribute to Barrie demonstrates Shaw's high regard for his contemporary and near neighbor.
There are also essays on how Shaw came increasingly to resemble Strindberg as a dramatist, on the requirements of acting and directing Shaw alongside his contemporaries at the Shaw Festival at Niagara-on-theLake, and on Heartbreak Houseas a complex dialogue with Chekhov, Shakespeare, and Strindberg.