SHAVINGS
27

 

A Bulletin for George Bernard Shaw


February 2008


 

News of the death of Dan H. Laurence reached us too late to be given just measure in this issue.  We will publish coverage in our next.

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1.     Editorial

2.   The Plays

3.   Shawlines

a.   Conferences

b.   Exhibition

c.    Publications

d.    Obituary

e.    The Shrines

f.     Shaw in Austria

g.    Posters

h.  Shaw for Sale

4.  Echoes of Oscar

5.  Bibliographies and Links

6.  Shaw Associations

These are listed but information about them has been transferred to its own page

7.  Tailpiece


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'Oh, Shaw! That's the man who smokes Jaeger cigarettes!'

   Oscar Wilde, quoted by Richard Le Gallienne: The Romantic Nineties.  New edition.  London: Putnam & Co.  1951 p.81.

 

 

 

 

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1.    Editorial 

Shavings is published at irregular intervals, dependent upon the accumulation of material.  Chronologically, this is the sixth issue of Shavings to appear on www.oscholars.com and the sixth for which we are joined by our Associate Editor for Shavings, Barbara Pfeifer of the University of Vienna.  The earliest issues were incorporated into THE OSCHOLARS but will eventually be excavated for this site.  The webmaster for Shavings is Steven Halliwell as he is for all the pages of www.oscholars.com.  We are continuing to overhaul the site and introduce new features.  In particular we draw your attention to our growing Posterwall.

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2.   The Plays

In this section we try especially but not exclusively to cover productions of Shaw's pre-1901 plays, and news of productions of these (with offers of review) will be most welcome.  The plays are Arms and the Man (1894), Cæsar and Cleopatra (1898), Candida (1895), Captain Brassbound's Conversion (1899), The Devil's Disciple (1897),The Man of Destiny (1895), Mrs Warren's Profession (1893),The Philanderer (1893), Widowers' Houses (1892), You Never Can Tell (1895). (Dates of composition, not first performance.)  Wilde is known to have attended the first night of Arms and the Man (20th April 1894).

We have been improving our coverage, and can now be more active in commissioning reviews.  This page has been growing, and as with all our journals, an amoeba like fission has become necessary.  This is still experimental, but we are putting this section on a separate page.  The features on this page also include links to reviews.

To reach it, click GBS

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3.   SHAWLINES

 

In this section we print all the news that we find or, better still, are sentWe especially welcome news of Shaw on curricula.

We also wish to record articles and papers relating to the earlier Shaw, and news of new editions of Cashel Byron's Profession (1886), An Unsocial Socialist (1887), The Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891), The Perfect Wagnerite (1898), Love Among the Artists (1900), as well as other related material.

 

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a.    Conferences, Seminars, Lectures and Calls for Papers

  We pass on the following list, received from Richard Dietrich:

1.)          A special session for the 2008 MLA convention in San Francisco seeks papers on Bernard Shaw and his authorial and/or personal relations with his contemporaries.  Given the length and variety of Shaw’s life, the idea of ’Shaw and His Contemporaries’ should be broadly construed.  Among other more obvious topics, interest in Shaw’s relationship to modernism and individual modernists, in non-Western contemporaries, and in figures outside literary, dramatic, and theatrical contexts are all welcome.  Please send one-page abstract and brief CV by 15 March 2008 to Charles Joseph Del Dotto via email attachment @.

2.)          Shaw Session at the Comparative Drama Conference in L.A. 27th-29th March 2008  TOPIC: ‘Shaw and Cultural Studies, etc.’  Cultural Studies approaches to Shaw will be the focus of at least one Shaw session, including the question of whether Shaw might have invented some of those approaches, but other topics are welcome for other sessions.  Deadline for abstracts was 15th November 2007.   Check www.shawsociety.org for a link to a page where details will be provided when available.

3.) Fifth Annual Shaw Symposium at the Shaw Festival in Ontario 25th-27th July 2008. Deadline for abstracts and scholarship/grant Applications is 15th April 2008.  Send to  Dr. Leonard Conolly, preferably as an attachment to an email (lconolly@trentu.ca),  or by mail to Professor Leonard Conolly, Department of English, Trent University,  Peterborough, Ontario, Canada K9J 7B8.  Shaw plays at the Shaw Festival will be Mrs. Warren's Profession and Getting Married, and papers on those plays will be given priority, although other subjects may be acceptable.  Details, registration info, and application forms will be available online by the end of 2007 at www.shawsociety.org/Shaw-Symposium-2008.htm.

 4.) CALL FOR PAPERS for Feminism Revisits Shaw, co-edited by Dorothy Hadfield and Jean Reynolds. Closing date for a 750-word abstract and a short biographical note was 31st January 2008 to

Dorothy Hadfield  @

Box 27, Route #2

Ariss, Ontario 

CANADA  N0B 1B0

or Jean Reynolds @

520 Winter Terrace,

Winter Haven, Florida 

USA  33881

 

For other details, go to www.shawsociety.org for a link

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5.)  Shaw Session at the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Conference in Buffalo, New York, 10th- 13th April, 2008: TOPIC: Pygmalion.

 

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6.)  SHAW SEMINAR IN BRIONI, June 2008:   For information, please click here.   If interested, please email dietrich@cas.usf.edu.

 

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b.  Exposing Shaw.

 

‘Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists’ from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, an exhibition which will be on view at the Grolier Club in New York from 21st February to 26th April, includes two portraits of GBS, a photograph by Emery Walker and the lithograph by William Rothenstein.  The exhibition is curated by Margaret D. Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Delaware.

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c.  Publications & Papers

Kay Li: Bernard Shaw and China: Cross-Cultural Encounters.  University Press of Florida, The Florida Bernard Shaw Series.  320pp. $59.95   ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-3085-2.  Publication date 14th October 2007.  Kay Li is research associate at the Asian Institute, Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto.

We are very pleased to publish a Bibliography of Shaw 2007/8 compiled by Barbara Pfeifer, Associate Editor of Shavings.  This forms a supplement to the journal, and will be updated henceforward.  Please click here.

 

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d.  Obituary 

 

We regret to record the death on 2nd February of the actor Barry Morse, a lifelong Shavian and staunch supporter of Shavian societies.

Anthony Wynn has supplied the International Shaw Society with a list of links to obituaries, and we reproduce it here.  There will be more coverage in our next issue.

The New York Times http://snipurl.com/1z057

The Los Angeles Times http://snipurl.com/1z0dl

The Times http://snipurl.com/1z0dm

The Independent http://snipurl.com/1z0dn

Globe and Mail http://snipurl.com/1z0ds

 


 

e.   The Shrines

Shaw’s Corner at Ayot St Lawrence (‘See the great dramatist’s revolving Writing Hut’).

House and garden will re-open for the season on 15th March.  Click the picture to find their website; the e-address is shawscorner@nationaltrust.org.uk

 

 Shaw's Corner, Hertfordshire

© NTPL / Matthew Antrobus

 

The Shaw Birthplace in Synge Street, Dublin closed for the season in October 2007 and will re-open in May (no date yet announced).  A rather banal website can be reached by clicking

 

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where it is ridiculously described as having been restored to its ‘Victorian glory’.   It can be contacted at shawhouse@dublintourism.ie

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f.   Shaw in Austria

Hannes Schweiger (University of Vienna) has been working on the reception of Shaw in Austria. He has kindly sent us an abstract of his work, which can be found by clicking here.

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g.  Posters

We have been showing posters that the Footlights Gallery have for sale, and then placing them on a Posterwall with a link from