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A Bulletin
for George Bernard Shaw
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February 2008
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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.
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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
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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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Readers of Shavings may participate in the discussion forum set
up for all readers of the oscholars
group of journals by clicking its icon  There is a short registration procedure,
as with all such groups. This forum will also serve for posting
notice of events that occur between issues of the journals, Calls for
Papers etc. We recommend this as an easy channel of communication
from us to our readers: sending out mass mailings has all sorts of
difficulties. Every care is taken to exclude spam and other unpleasantnesses.
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2.
The Plays
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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).
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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.
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To reach it, click GBS
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3.
SHAWLINES
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In this section we print all
the news that we find
or, better still, are sent. We especially welcome news of Shaw on curricula.
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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
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We pass on the
following list, received from Richard Dietrich:
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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
@.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Dorothy Hadfield @
Box 27, Route #2
Ariss,
Ontario
CANADA N0B 1B0
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or Jean Reynolds @
520 Winter Terrace,
Winter Haven, Florida
USA 33881
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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.
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‘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
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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.
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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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e. The Shrines
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Shaw’s Corner at Ayot
St Lawrence (‘See the great dramatist’s
revolving Writing Hut’).
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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.
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© NTPL / Matthew Antrobus
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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
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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
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We have been showing posters that the Footlights
Gallery have for sale, and then placing them on a Posterwall
with a link from here. We also add
posters from current productions as they come to hand. This has been reformed and enlarged since
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The following are currently
to be found on the Footlights Gallery website. |
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FOOTLIGHTS Gallery
& Gifts, 240 East Main Street, Ashland, OR 97520 USA. Phone & Fax: 541-488-5538 (Voice: 10
a.m.- 6 p.m. Pacific Time, 18:00-2:00 UTC; Fax: 24
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ALLPOSTERS (www.allposters.com) are also offering this reproduction of the
caricature by Alick Ritchie (‘The Giclee printing process delivers a fine stream of ink
resulting in vivid, pure color and exceptional
detail that is suitable for museum or gallery display. This art print is
produced on a heavy 310 gsm, acid-free and watercolor textured paper’):
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h. Shaw for Sale
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At
Sotheby’s auction house in London in London, 13th December 2007,
sale no. L07411, lot no.125:
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Series of fifteen letters,
eight of them autograph, all signed ("G. Bernard Shaw" or
"G.B.S."), all but one addressed to the Fabian
A.J. Marriott, about political and religious issues.
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4.
ECHOES OF OSCAR
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Or, When Shaw texted
Wilde
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‘It
is almost incredible that Oscar’s essays and novels and dramas should not
have had an effect upon the mind and conceptions of a man like Shaw’.
– H.M. Hyndman: Further
Reminiscences.
London: Macmillan 1912 p.221.
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This
section of Shavings takes up the challenge implicit in Hyndman’s statement
and explores textual similarities in the work of the two writers. We
will add to this from time to time, and readers are warmly invited to
contribute their own aperçus. Formerly
incorporated into this main section of Shavings, it now has its own
page, reached by clicking here. New lines will
be announced here, and then transferred.
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5.
BIBLIOGRAPHIES & LINKS
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This section (a. GBS for Wildeans:
A Bibliography of 19th century Shaw; b. Websites and blogs) has been
recreated on its own page, reached by clicking here. We now include a
2007 Bibliography compiled with notes by Barbara Pfeifer. New
items will be announced here and then transferred. Do please draw our
attention to new publications, especially articles in learned journals.
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GBShaw_and_Friends is a
discussion group housed at GBShaw_and_Friends-owner@yahoogroups.com.
We recently (9th September 2007) applied to join, and received this
(presumably automated) message from the Moderator, no doubt the equivalent
of a Shavian postcard:
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Welcome to GBShaw_and_Friends.
I hope that this group will promote the life and works of George
Bernard Shaw and his Contemporaries. Contributions welcome. The
more we share about this great man and his works, the better the promotion
he receives. His lifetime marked great changes in society, in
theatre, and in life in general.
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Surprisingly, this
group had only thirty-nine members, and this has now (30th January 2008)
dropped to twenty-eight, including one who wishes to be known as ‘Sexy
Sophia’.
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We also applied to
another ‘yahoo’ group: the ‘George bernard Shaw
social Group for those who are truely interested
in the life & work of Bernard shaw. Diane Uttley President of the Bernard Shaw Information &
Research Service www.georgebernardshaw.com was Custodian of &
lived at Shaw's home Shaw's Corner from 1989 to 1997. Diane is a Shaw
Expert/Writer on GBS’. (Spelling as given)
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We received the
following reply:
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Hello,
Your request to join the bernardshawgroup group
was not approved. Your membership was automatically rejected because
the moderator didn't approve it within 14 days. We do this to provide a
high quality of service for our users. If you want, you may attempt
to join this group again. You may find other groups to join by
searching or browsing the Groups directory: http://groups.yahoo.com.
If you would like to create your own group, please visit:
http://groups.yahoo.com/start.
Thank you for choosing Yahoo! Groups.
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Regards,
Yahoo! Groups Customer Care
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Not surprisingly, this
group had only five members of whom only one had survived by 30th January
2008.
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6.
SHAW ASSOCIATIONS
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Those known to us are as follows, and information
about them, previously given here, is now found on a separate page.
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a. The International
Shaw Society
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b. The Shaw
Society
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c. The Bernard Shaw
Society & The Independent Shavian
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d. The
Dublin Shaw Society
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e. The Shaw Societies
of India and Japan
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7. TAILPIECE
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‘As for Mr Shaw, he may
always, I fancy, be trusted to speak tolerantly of anything that doesn’t
encroach upon what he is pleased to consider his preserve.’
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– A.W. Pinero to William Archer, 16th January
1896, in J.P. Wearing (ed.): The
Collected Letters of Sir Arthur Wing Pinero. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
Press 1974 p.169.
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