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Genesis of a Dramatic Critic
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ANOTHER COLLECTION (the fourth since 1906) of Shaw's Saturday Review drama articles has recently made its paperbacked appearance. To attempt to review it here would be to traverse critical pathways too heavily trafficked already; these weekly feuilletons have long since joined the theater essays of Hazlitt, Addison and Steele, and Coleridge in immortality. But at the same time they have tended to create a false impression that Bernard Shaw the dramatic critic was conceived out of a vacuum on that 4th of December 1894 when he called on Frank Harris and agreed to visit the theater professionally for a salary of £6 a week (surely no editor ever received better value for his money).
Title: Genesis of a Dramatic Critic
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ANOTHER COLLECTION (the fourth since 1906) of Shaw's Saturday Review drama articles has recently made its paperbacked appearance.
To attempt to review it here would be to traverse critical pathways too heavily trafficked already; these weekly feuilletons have long since joined the theater essays of Hazlitt, Addison and Steele, and Coleridge in immortality.
But at the same time they have tended to create a false impression that Bernard Shaw the dramatic critic was conceived out of a vacuum on that 4th of December 1894 when he called on Frank Harris and agreed to visit the theater professionally for a salary of £6 a week (surely no editor ever received better value for his money).
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