BERNARD SHAW : The Makers of Modern Literature Series (New Directions Books)

Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1947. First Edition, First Thus . Hard Cover/Stitched. Good/No Jacket. Text/Clean & Strong. Vintage 1947, First Edition, First Thus. PLEASE NOTE: Book Has Been Crushed --- w/wrinkled front & back upper corners to otherwise sound beige linen boards, and, w/corresponding bends to text corners. DJ/None. PO name to rear endpaper. Frontispiece: Photo portrait of Shaw. Analysis by British-born American theater critic, playwright, singer, editor & Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard Univ., Eric Russell Bentley (1916 - 2020), who, in 1998 was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame. This is a critical literary study of the influential Irish playwright & critic Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), who penned some 60 plays including Man and Superman (1902) and Pygmalion (1912), and recipient of the 1925 Nobel Prize in Literature. 242 pgs, reviewing "what we can find in" Shaw, in 4 chapters: 1, Political Economy; 2, Vital Economy; 3, The Theatre; and 4, The Fool in Christ (an interpretation of Shaw's career) followed by Key to Quotations. Strong copy despite bent corners.