BERNARD SHAW'S PLAYS.
A paragraph from Mr. Edward Wagenluiecht's " Uuido to Bernard Sliaw," leads:—" It is amazing that a man whoso theory of art is so patently wici.g should havo achieved such a placo as Shaw lias won. Wo may niako all tho allow'anco wo wish for tho shortcomings of his plays —their wordiness, their excessively argumentative quality, their lack of strong, absorbing story, tneir sometimes desperately ' topical character, their almost ontiro innocence of strong, objective characterisation—yet (ho fact remains that they are the absorbing plays and that they aro being performed nil over the world. Indeed. . . in somo retpecls tho bulk of his plays must bo admitted to constitute the greatest achievement in the history of tho English drama sinco Shakespere's time."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20438, 14 December 1929, Page 8 (Supplement)
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123BERNARD SHAW'S PLAYS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20438, 14 December 1929, Page 8 (Supplement)
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