The Critical Shaw: On Music - Couverture souple

Shaw, Bernard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0795348940 ISBN 13 : 9780795348945

Editeur : RosettaBooks, 2016

Synopsis

“Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.” —Bernard Shaw, 1894
Critical Shaw: Music is a comprehensive selection of renowned Irish playwright and Nobel Laureate Bernard Shaw’s extensive writings on a wide range of musical topics. Still recognized as one of Great Britain’s most important music critics, Shaw enriched London’s musical scene for some twenty years with his provocative, original, and penetrating reviews. His vast critical output encompassed opera, operetta, vocal and orchestral performance, musical theater, and oratorios. Frequently embellished by his controversial political and social opinions, and delving as well into the nature of music criticism itself, Shaw’s reviews continue to stimulate and surprise, their depth and range setting standards that are rarely, if ever, matched today.
The Critical Shaw series brings together, in five volumes and from a wide range of sources, selections from Bernard Shaw’s voluminous writings on topics that exercised him for the whole of his professional career: Literature, Music, Politics, Religion, and Theater. The volumes are edited by leading Shaw scholars, and all include an introduction, a chronology of Shaw’s life and works, annotated texts, and a bibliography. The series editor is L.W. Conolly, literary adviser to the Shaw Estate and former president of the International Shaw Society.

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À propos de l?auteur

Acclaimed Irish playwright and Nobel laureate Bernard Shaw has left an indelible mark on Western theater, culture, and politics. Over the course of his life, he wrote more than 60 plays that addressed prevailing social problems through comedy. Shaw was also a prolific essayist and lecturer on politics, economics and sociological subjects, and was eventually awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work that is marked by its use of stunning satire to encapsulate humanity.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: RosettaBooks
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0795348940
• ISBN 13: 9780795348945
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 322
• Éditeur: Bogar Brigitte, Innes Christopher
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