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Jennifer Buckley writes about the Plays Pleasant, and contends that the dividing line between them and the Plays Unpleasant is not always sharp. She theorizes that Shaw’s turn toward commercial theatre was for purposes of cultural permeation, arguing that, after setting up some definite obstacles to marriage , Shaw skirts the central issue by allowing the Life Force to propel the couple down the aisle.
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Buckley, J. (2017). The Pragmatic Partnerships of Plays Pleasant . In: Gaines, R. (eds) Bernard Shaw's Marriages and Misalliances. Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95170-3_3
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