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Few writers of Shaw’s stature can ever have found their exact medium so randomly and with so little enthusiasm as he. His entry into the theatre (at thirty-six) was neither the start of a long, embittering struggle, as had been Ibscn’s fate, nor, for that matter, a triumphant Marlovian eruption. Instead events and aptitudes collided in a haphazard and mildly promising manner.
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Notes and References
See Bernard Shaw: Collected Letters 1874–1897, ed. Dan H. Laurence (Max Reinhardt, 1965), p. 384.
Alan S. Downer, ‘Shaw’s First Play’, Shaw: Seven Critical Essays, ed. Norman Rosenblood (Toronto and Buffalo, University of Toron to Press, 1971), p. 9.
Maurice Valency, The Cart and the Trumpet (New York, Oxford University Press, 1973), p. 106.
Louis Crompton, Shaw the Dramatist (University of Nebraska Press, 1969; George Allen & Unwin, 1971), p. 54.
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May, K.M. (1985). Shaw’s Plays of the Nineties. In: Ibsen and Shaw. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17805-6_7
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