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Peter Gahan, Shaw Shadows: Rereading the Texts of Bernard Shaw.(Book review)

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From: Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies
Date: 20070922
Author:Roche, Anthony

Peter Gahan, Shaw Shadows: Rereading the Texts of Bernard Shaw. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. xxiv+316 pages. USD 59.95.

In the year 2006 it was difficult in Dublin to overlook the fact of Beckett's centenary and all too easy to be unaware of the fact that one hundred and fifty years had passed since the birth of George Bernard Shaw. No productions of Shaw's plays were staged at either the Gate or the Abbey Theatres during that year, and the talks given in his honour at the National Gallery (which has benefited so much from Shaw's generosity) seemed more a ...

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