EAN: 9783319839448

BERNARD SHAW AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES BERNARD S...

This book investigates how  alongside Beatrice Webb's ground-breaking pre-World War One
anti-poverty campaigns  George Bernard Shaw helped launch the public debate about the
relationship between equality  redistribution and democracy in a developed economy. The ten
years following his great 1905 play on poverty Major Barbara present a puzzle to Shaw scholars
who have hitherto failed to appreciate both the centrality of the idea of equality in major
plays like Getting Married  Misalliance  and Pygmalion  and to understand that his major
political work  1928's The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism had its roots
in this period before the Great War. As both the era's leading dramatist and leader of the
Fabian Society  Shaw proposed his radical postulate of equal incomes as a solution to those
twin scourges of a modern industrial society: poverty and inequality. Set against the backdrop
of Beatrice Webb's famous Minority Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Law 1905-1909 - a
publication which led to grass-roots campaigns against destitution and eventually the Welfare
State - this book considers how Shaw worked with Fabian colleagues  Sidney and Beatrice Webb 
and H. G. Wells to explore through a series of major lectures  prefaces and plays  the social 
economic  political  and even religious implications of human equality as the basis for modern
democracy.

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