Shaw's settings : gardens and libraries /

Stafford, Tony Jason.

Shaw's settings : gardens and libraries / Tony Jason Stafford : foreword by R.F. Dietrich. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, (c)2013. - 1 online resource - The Florida Bernard Shaw series .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Widowers' houses: "Life here is a perfect idyll" -- Mrs. Warren's profession: the walled gardens -- Arms and the man: "I took care to let them know that we have a library" -- Candida: a wall of bookshelves and the best view of the garden -- Man and Superman: books on a garden table -- Major Barbara: the Salvation Army's "garden and cusins" books -- Misalliance: gardens and books as the means to new dramatic forms -- Heartbreak house: "A long garden seat on the west" -- Back to Methuselah: the original garden and a library too.

An exploration of the various ways two settings, gardens and libraries, are used in various ways throughout Bernard Shaw's work.



9780813048550 9780813046747


Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 --Criticism and interpretation.


Libraries in literature.
Gardens in literature.


Electronic Books.

PR5367 / .S539 2013