Originally published in 1920, The Quintessence of Bernard Shaw, the title a play on Shaw's own essay The Quintessence of Ibsenism, offered a coherent review of his ideas mainly, though not exclusively, as expressed in his plays and prefaces.
It was Shaw's general contention that all great art was didactic; it was his specific contention that he wrote plays to convert people to his opinions on 'Social Economy', 'Political Economy' and 'Vital Economy'.
In The Shavian Playground, originally published in 1972, Shaw's plays are examined as self-contained imaginative structures intended for theatrical performance.
Originally published in 1969, in Shaw - "e;The Chucker Out"e; Allan Chappelow quotes much entirely new and previously unpublished Shaw material (the fruits of six years' research at the British Museum and elsewhere) as the basis for his aim of assisting towards a better understanding of Shaw's controversial character and his paradoxical attitude to life - with reference particularly to certain fallacies and misconceptions voiced by the villagers of Ayot St.
The challenge is to live in this world, not a new oneA veteran US astronaut is about to land back on Earth after completing his very last space flight.
