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Introduction: Michael Holroyd's Bernard Shaw |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / FEATURED BOOK: Michael Holroyd's Bernard Shaw |
| Author: Editor |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1989 |
| Size: 310 Words, 1,945 Characters |
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George Bernard Shaw's influence and intriguing personality are investigated by British writer Michael Holroyd in a three volume biography that is winning critical acclaim.
Volume 1, Bernard Shaw: The Search for Love, 1856-1898, illuminat...
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...lar attention to a menage a trois pattern recurring in Shaw's plays. Rudall also comments on Holroyd's literary achievement. A second commentary, "Sonny the Secular Savior," by Michael Patrick Gillespie, links Shaw to the tradition of Irish writers in search of identity. Gillespie develops the theory that Shaw's didacticism was his way of enhancing his self-knowledge and asserting individuality.
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