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Shaw's settings

Stafford, Tony Jason.

Shaw's settings gardens and libraries / [electronic resource] : Tony Jason Stafford : foreword by R.F. Dietrich. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2013. - 1 online resource (pages cm.) - The Florida Bernard Shaw series .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Widowers' houses: "Life here is a perfect idyll" -- Mrs. Warren's profession: the walled gardens -- Arms and the man: "I took care to let them know that we have a library" -- Candida: a wall of bookshelves and the best view of the garden -- Man and Superman: books on a garden table -- Major Barbara: the Salvation Army's "garden and cusins" books -- Misalliance: gardens and books as the means to new dramatic forms -- Heartbreak house: "A long garden seat on the west" -- Back to Methuselah: the original garden and a library too.

An exploration of the various ways two settings, gardens and libraries, are used in various ways throughout Bernard Shaw's work.

9780813048550 0813048559


Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 --Criticism and interpretation.


Gardens in literature.
Libraries in literature.


Electronic books.

PR5367 / .S73 2013

822/.912