Shaw and Superman: The development of a dramatic structure to serve the presentation of an intellectual concept.

Title: Shaw and Superman: The development of a dramatic structure to serve the presentation of an intellectual concept.
Identifier: AAI9029914
identifier: 9029914
Creator: Berg, Fredric Robert.
Contributor: Adviser: Edwin Wilson
Date: 1990
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Theater | Literature, Modern | Literature, English
Abstract: The dissertation examines sequentially Shaw's first eleven plays, through Man and Superman. In these plays, Shaw was defining a characteristic structure, the Shavian triangle of three opposing points of view: the Superman--the attacker of what is, the advocate of the new, the different, the difficult, the unconventional; the Devil--the defender of the old, the status quo, the easy, the conventional; and the Object--the variable that makes for the uniqueness of each Shavian play. Shaw was also exploring how this structure could best be utilized to express his developing idea of the Superman, not abstractly, as a philosophical conceit, but as an active dramatic character functioning within a framework of dramatic conflict.
Type: dissertation
Source: PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
degree: Ph.D.

Media: Shaw and Superman: The development of a dramatic structure to serve the presentation of an intellectual concept.