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Not Really a Philanderer

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Rodelle Weintraub examines Shaw’s life rather than his works. Focusing on his self-confessed sexual conduct in light of his celibate marriage. she discusses Shaw’s sexual exploits as she tackles the question of whether he was a philanderer. As the story of Shaw’s marriage to Charlotte has been covered in some detail elsewhere, there is no chapter devoted to their marriage here. Nevertheless, Shaw was a sexual being and exercised his heterosexual nature before and after his marriage to Charlotte.

Philanderer: One who engages in love affairs frivolously or casually

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A man who readily or frequently enters into casual sexual relationships with women

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    Rodelle Weintraub

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  1. Auburn University at Montgomery, Montgomery, Alabama, USA

    Robert A. Gaines

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Weintraub, R. (2017). Not Really a Philanderer. 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_5

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