Bernard Shaw and Gilbert Murray - 9781442643826

Bernard Shaw and Gilbert MurrayAuthor(s): Charles A. Carpenter\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9781442643826, 978-1442643826\nSynopsis\nUnlikely friends and collaborators, Bernard Shaw and Gilbert Murray carried on a lively and wide-ranging correspondence for more than fifty years. When they began exchanging letters in the late 1890s, Shaw was a renowned Fabian propagandist, reviewer, and author of anti-conventional plays. Murray was a classicist and translator of ancient Greek drama who would eventually become Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford. Beginning with their shared distaste for the popular well-made plays of the era, their correspondence quickly expanded into collaboration Murray helped revise Shaws Major Barbara, in which he appears as a character and discussion of a vast range of issues ranging from alphabet reform and psychic phenomena to the League of Nations and international politics.\.