Bernard Shaw and Noël Coward: Conversation Pieces
暫譯: 肖伯納與諾埃爾·考沃德：對話作品集
Wixson, Christopher
- 出版商: Palgrave MacMillan
- 出版日期: 2025-06-17
- 售價: $5,670
- 貴賓價: 9.8 折 $5,556
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 213
- 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
- ISBN: 3031902904
- ISBN-13: 9783031902901
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商品描述
This book tracks dramaturgical affinities between some of Bernard Shaw's late "extravagant" plays and those of Noël Coward, in particular their recasting of one another's style and the tradition of manners comedy. While Coward's first play (The Young Idea) all but plagiarizes You Never Can Tell and Shaw responds with his own depictions of the idle rich, their experimental plays in the 1930s also ambitiously engage issues of race and Empire, topics further outside their respective idioms.
"Christopher Wixson mines Shaw's rarely-explored engagement with the work of Noël Coward, examining both writers' highly experimental plays from the 1930s in light of such important issues as postwar disillusionment, racial difference, and post-coloniality." Michel Pharand, Queen's University商品描述(中文翻譯)
這本書探討了伯納德·肖（Bernard Shaw）晚期「奢華」劇作與諾埃爾·卡華德（Noël Coward）之間的戲劇親和性，特別是他們如何重新詮釋彼此的風格以及社交喜劇的傳統。雖然卡華德的第一部劇作《年輕的想法》（The Young Idea）幾乎抄襲了《你永遠無法預測》（You Never Can Tell），而肖則以自己對閒散富人的描繪作出回應，但他們在1930年代的實驗性劇作也雄心勃勃地探討了種族和帝國等議題，這些主題更超出了他們各自的語言範疇。
克里斯多福·維克森（Christopher Wixson）深入挖掘了肖與諾埃爾·卡華德作品之間鮮少被探討的關聯，從戰後失望、種族差異和後殖民性等重要議題的角度，檢視了兩位作家的高度實驗性劇作。
米歇爾·法朗（Michel Pharand），女王大學（Queen's University）
作者簡介
Christopher Wixson is Professor of English and Theatre at Eastern Illinois University, USA. His scholarly writing has appeared (in most cases, more than once) in Modern Drama, Studies in English Literature, the Journal of Modern Literature, Comparative Drama, ELT, Notes on Contemporary Literature, Pamphlet, The Harold Pinter Review, SHAW, The Shavian, American Drama, and The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama. He is the author of Bernard Shaw and Modern Advertising: Prophet Motives (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and Bernard Shaw: A Very Short Introduction (2020). Since 2017, he has served as the General Editor of SHAW: The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
克里斯多福·威克森是美國伊利諾伊東部大學的英語與戲劇教授。他的學術著作曾多次發表於現代戲劇、英語文學研究、現代文學期刊、比較戲劇、英語教學、當代文學筆記、小冊子、哈羅德·品特評論、SHAW、莎維安、美國戲劇以及現代戲劇哥倫比亞百科全書。他是伯納德·肖與現代廣告：先知的動機（Palgrave Macmillan, 2018）和伯納德·肖：非常簡短的介紹（2020）的作者。自2017年以來，他擔任SHAW：伯納德·肖研究期刊的總編輯。
