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Shaw, Plato, and Euripides: Classical Currents in Major Barbara

ISBN: 9780813037646 | 0813037646

Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Univ Pr of Florida
Pub. Date: 2/26/2012

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Summary Table of Contents Author Biography

"Explores a fascinating and important aspect of Shaw's worldview: one that is indebted to the ideology and philosophy of ancient Greece."-Michel Pharand, author of Bernard Shaw and the French "An original and valuable scholarly achievement with sharp, often subtle insights."-Bernard F. Dukore, author of Shaw's Theater Ever since its 1905 premiere on the London stage,Bernard Shaw's controversial drama Major Barbarahas proved puzzling to audiences and critics alike. More than a century later there is still wide critical disagreement about the pla... MOREy's meaning and the ideas it engenders. Sidney Albert's groundbreaking new book provides a daring and novel reading of this work. By tracing the extensive connections between Shaw's play andtwo canonical ancient Greek texts-Plato's Republicand Euripides's Bacchae-Albert reveals deeper dimensions of the work. Albert demonstrates the influence these classics had on Shaw's development as an artist and philosopher. He explores the Dionysian and Platonic elements in Major Barbarato illuminate how classical themes were modernized by Shaw. While examining the interrelations of the central characters in their social settings, Shaw, Plato, and Euripidessearches out the complex layers of meaning in one of Shaw's most enigmatic dramas. Albert convincingly reveals Shaw's interaction with Greek thought in a way that reconfirms ancient wisdom and yet goes beyond it, adapting it to the social, political, and humanistic perspectives of the modern world. Sidney P. Albertis professor emeritus of philosophy at California State University, Los Angeles. A founding member of the International Shaw Society and a former member of the Shaw Revieweditorial board,and a frequent contributor to Shaw: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies, he is widely recognized as a leading authority on the dramas of Bernard Shaw. A volume in the Florida Bernard Shaw series, edited by R. F. Dietrich

"An examination of how Bernard Shaw's drama Major Barbara parallels Plato's The Republic and Euripides's Bacchae and modernizes classical themes"--

Ever since its 1905 premiere on the London stage, Bernard Shaw's controversial drama Major Barbara has proved puzzling to audiences and critics alike. More than a century later there is still wide critical disagreement about the play's meaning and the ideas embodied within it. Sidney Albert's groundbreaking new b o ok provides a daring and novel reading of this work. By tracing the extensive connections between Shaw's play and two canonical ancient Greek texts-Plato's Republic and Euripides�s Bacchae-Albert reveals deeper dimensions of the drama.

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Foreword	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction: The Way from Athens	p. 1
Intricacies of the Drama	p. 2
Major Barbara and Plato's Republic	p. 3
Major Barbara and Euripides's Bacchae	p. 5
On Translations from the Greek	p. 7
The Way from Athens	p. 9
Shaw's Republic	p. 11
Platonic Parallels	p. 11
Prideful Aristocracy	p. 15
Moral Economics	p. 20
Will, Reason, Moral Passion	p. 23
Irony and Sophistry	p. 27
The Way to Power	p. 35
Triunity	p. 39
Power of Life and Death	p. 41
Raising Hell to Heaven	p. 47
Return to the Cave	p. 50
Shaw's Bacchae	p. 53
The Drama of Nutrition	p. 53
Bacchic Parallels	p. 54
Humanity and Divinity	p. 56
The Life Force and Nutrition	p. 59
Myth and Identity	p. 63
Blood and Fire	p. 69
Maenads and Music	p. 74
The Drama of Resistance	p. 82
Hybris, Aidos, and Nemesis in West Ham	p. 84
Drumming Dithyrambs	p. 93
Eudaimonia, Sophia, and Indeterminate Divinity	p. 97
Divine Mania	p. 108
Power of the People	p. 116
Epiphany: Ecstasy and Resistance	p. 126
The Drama of Heaven and Hell	p. 135
Aftermath, Amathia, and Awakening	p. 137
Dionysos or Another	p. 147
The Armorer�s Creed	p. 157
Power Struggle	p. 165
Salvation through Physis	p. 171
The Drama of Transfiguration	p. 182
Traversing the Abyss	p. 184
Power and Wisdom	p. 191
Torch in Hand	p. 197
Resurrection: Life through Death	p. 206
Raising Man to God	p. 209
Descent from the Heights	p. 214
The Bacchae and Major Barbara	p. 219
Appendix. Bernard Shaw: The Artist as Philosopher	p. 221
Notes	p. 245
Selected Bibliography	p. 283
Index	p. 297
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Sidney P. Albert is professor emeritus of philosophy at California State University, Los Angeles. A founding member of the International Shaw Society, a former member of the Shaw Review editorial board, and a frequent contributor to Shaw: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies, he is widely recognized as a leading authority on the dramas of Bernard Shaw.

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