Bernard Shaw on Theater

A collection of critical writings on theater from the Nobel Prize–winning playwright behind Man and Superman and Pygmalion.

The Critical Shaw: On Theater is a comprehensive selection of essays and addresses about drama and theater by renowned Irish playwright and Nobel Laureate Bernard Shaw. An outspoken critic of the melodramas and formulaic farces that comprised most of the popular theater in the late nineteenth century, Shaw relentlessly campaigned for audiences, actors, theater managers,...