![]() ![]() These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. Much of what we have grown accustomed to expect from a modern history play was brought about by Shaw’s originality and daring in challenging the hidebound practices and conventions of nineteenth-century historical drama. He is evident in the background of the works of minor playwrights such as Reginald Berkeley, Gordon Daviot and Clifford Bax as well as major playwrights like T. ![]() The immense influence he exerted in his own time and continues to exert among English playwrights of this century is reflected in the fact that nearly all the playwrights dealt with in this book mirror some measure of his impact. The modern approach to historical drama can be seen to start with him. In a study of twentieth-century English history plays George Bernard Shaw is a good playwright to start with, not merely from the point of view of chronology. ![]()
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