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Bernard Shaw’s and Virginia Woolf’s Interior Authors Censored and Modern
Virginia Woolf and Bernard Shaw may be the odd couple of Twentieth Century modernism. Despite their difference in age (Shaw was twenty-six years...
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The Way Forward: Shaw and Artificial Intelligence
Shaw’s life intersected with automata, robots, and AI. In fact he was born during the golden age of the automaton. His Bible of the Life Force and...
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Deeper Waters
Design for Living with its world of insiders and outsiders and its triangle of characters connects with earlier plays with themes on the morality and...
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Love and Marriage
I’ll Leave It to You, written when he was twenty and with a part for himself, was about success of the kind that interested Coward. Although the plot...
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Last Plays
Waiting in the Wings, considered by Coward one of his best, is a play of old age and theatrical insiders, a smaller world than that of the Twenties...
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Introduction
Coward is more than just a major practitioner of the drama of the 1920s. He continued a theatrical tradition of well-made plays and contributed to...
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Post-war Drama and Fiction
Samolo, a British dependency in the Pacific, is the setting for the historical Pacific 1860, South Sea Bubble and the novel Pomp and Circumstance. Of...
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Shaw’s Novels—Dramatic Narratives
This chapter continues the discussion of the five novels of Bernard Shaw, and focuses on his last two complete novels, Cashel Byron’s Profession and...
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Shaw’s Plays: Putting Faith in Faith
This chapter continues the discussion of Shaw’s plays begun in the previous chapter, and considers plays that focus on Shaw’s fascination with...
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Shaw and Artificial Intelligence
Shaw, always ahead of his time, had an impact on the development of AI, especially because of his connection to Alan Turing. Shaw’s life ran parallel...
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Shaw and Automata
Automata are machines that can operate on their own without human control. By analogy, automations refer to persons who acts like machines without...
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The Theatre of War
Post-Mortem and Cavalcade were written in the Far East and represent a conflict within Coward concerning Britain’s role in contemporary history....
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Bernard Shaw, Automata, Robots and Artificial Intelligence
This book explores how Bernard Shaw intersects constructively with automata, robots and artificial intelligence (AI). He made use of automata and...
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Shaw and Robots
Shaw was related to robots through his acquaintance with Karel Čapek (1890–1938). The word “robot” comes from the Czech robota, meaning “forced...
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Drama and Contemporary Society
Present Laughter’s inner core of characters, grouped around a successful actor of Coward’s age, reflects Coward’s own circumstances, with two younger...
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The Entertainer
Evidently Coward’s achievement is more than his public persona suggests; there is theatrical skill, acquired by experience when he was young,...
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Bernard Shaw’s Novels—Emergent Interior Authors
Bernard Shaw produced five novels at the beginning of his writing career. These fledgling works feature characters who write, both interior and...
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Bernard Shaw’s Plays—Not in This Family
The plays of Bernard Shaw feature new, sometimes daring ideas intended to jolt the audiences of his day into recognizing the multifarious problems of...
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Novels of Great Women
Virginia Woolf strongly believed that Western History was constructed around the lives, particularly the battles, of “great men.” Knowing that...
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Introduction
This book considers the interior authors of Bernard Shaw and Virginia Woolf and examines the nexus of modernism and censorship in one facet of their...