Subject: Re: G.B.Shaw and Modernism
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 09:49:48 GMT



seems to be situated in
> an very uneasy place in modernism. Where exactly 
would G.B. Shaw fall in the modernism? 

I think (I don't have the volume to hand)  that Rebecca 
West's essay on The Uncles in _The Strange Necessity_ 
(1928) discusses Shaw along with Wells, Galsworthy and 
Arnold Bennett as the 'uncles' of her own, modernist, 
generation. There is also a little bit on Shaw and his 
importance to her generation towards the end of _Black 
Lamb and Grey Falcon_.
Shaw's arguments and campaigns against theatrical 
censorship presumably had a lot of resonance for other 
dramatists of the period.


Lesley Hall
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