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In this critical biography, Sally Peters explores Shaw's background and beliefs, interests and obsessions, relations with men and women, prose writings and dramatic art. In deciphering the enigma that was Shaw, she uncovers a convoluted and extravagant inner life studded with erotic secrets.
Peters examines the passions of Shaw's life - everything from vegetarianism and boxing to socialism and feminism - and pieces them together in a new configuration, offering a fresh interpretation of his life and works. Striving unceasingly to ascend, possessed of monumental energy, Shaw was in many ways a dazzling example of his idealized superman.
But, says Peters, this superman was also a man haunted by phantoms, a man of gender ambivalences and romantic yearnings, and a man who championed will even while believing that his erotic inclinations were the secret mark of the born artist. Throughout, he was braced by a resilient comic vision as he transformed his life into enduring art.
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Irish Dramatists, Dramatists, Irish, Homosexuality and literature, Man-woman relationships in literature, Biography, History, Shaw, bernard, 1856-1950, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Literary, DRAMA, English, Irish, Scottish, WelshPeople
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Bernard Shaw: The Ascent of the Superman
February 17, 1998, Yale University Press
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Bernard Shaw: The Ascent of the Superman
1996, Yale University Press
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Bernard Shaw: the ascent of the superman
1996, Yale University Press
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