EAN: 9783319873824

BERNARD SHAW AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES CRIMES AN...

This book analyzes the interaction of crimes  punishments  and Bernard Shaw in the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries. It explores crimes committed by professional criminals 
nonprofessional criminals  businessmen  believers in a cause  the police  the Government  and
prison officials. It examines punishments decreed by judges  juries  colonial governors 
commissars  and administered by the police  prison warders  and prison doctors. It charts
Shaw's view of crimes and punishments in dramatic writings  non-dramatic writings  and his
actions in real life. This book presents him in the context of his contemporaries and his world
inviting readers to view crimes and punishments in their context  history  and relevance to his
ideas in and outside his plays  plus the relevance of his ideas to crimes and punishments in
life.

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