Notices

Request for Manuscripts: Future SHAW Volumes

Beginning in 2015, SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies will be published biannually under the name shaw: The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies.

SHAW 35.1 (to be published in June 2015), a theme issue devoted to “Shaw and Modernity,” with Lawrence Switzky (University of Toronto) as guest editor, will consider Shaw’s significance as an artist and critic during the emergence of artistic, social, political, and cultural modernity. For inquiries, contact Dr. Lawrence Switzky at lawrence.switzky@utoronto.ca.

SHAW 35.2 (to be published in December 2015) will include articles on general topics, as well as book reviews, the Checklist of Shaviana, Notices, and ISS information. Submit abstracts (50 to 100 words) and papers to Dr. Michel Pharand at michelpharand@yahoo.com.

SHAW 36.1 (to be published in June 2016), a theme issue devoted to “Shaw and Money,” with Nelson Ritschel (Massachusetts Maritime Academy) and Audrey McNamara (University College Dublin) as guest editors, will explore Shaw’s views on and experiences with any aspect of money and finance, as well as their treatment in his plays and novels. Shaw, the anonymous philanthropist who hid behind a notoriously parsimonious facade, the egalitarian socialist who drove a Rolls-Royce, was keenly interested in money and its impact on people, famously writing that the “lack of money is the root of all evil.” Among his plays dealing with money and wealth (explicitly or implicitly) are Widowers’ Houses, Mrs Warren’s Profession, The Millionairess, Major Barbara, The Philanderer, and Buoyant Billions—to name the most obvious. Possible topics could include the following: tainted money; inheritances and legacies; heirs and heiresses; earnings and wages; gambling; the loss of financial security; hoarding and squandering; lending and borrowing; philanthropy and charity; investments (good and bad); misuses or misappropriation of funds; disparities between rich and poor; “the crime of poverty"; business and banking; international finance (e.g., the economics of warfare); money and marriage; money and morality; money and politics; Shaw’s friendships with the very rich; Shaw’s financial transactions (e.g., with publishers and theater managers); Shaw’s earnings (royalties, investments, taxation); Shaw’s expenses (cars, cruises, etc.); Shaw as anonymous philanthropist; Shaw on money (in his prefaces and letters); Shaw and Fabian economics; Shaw and Karl Marx; Shaw and Maynard Keynes; Shaw and capitalism; etc. Submit abstracts (50 to 100 words) and papers to Dr. Nelson Ritschel at nritschel@maritime.edu or Dr. Audrey McNamara at neamhoi@eircom.net.

SHAW submissions should be sent as email attachments (in Microsoft Word). For matters of style, please refer to recent SHAW volumes.

The 53rd Annual Shaw Festival, Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON, Canada

The 2014 Shaw Festival (4 April to 26 October 2014) featured Shaw’s Arms and the Man (4 April to 18 October), directed by Morris Panych, and The Philanderer (26 June to 12 October), directed by Lisa Peterson. Also staged were Cabaret, based on the play by John Van Druten and stories by Christopher Isherwood (10 April to 26 October), The Philadelphia Story by Philip Barry (15 May to 25 October), When We Are Married by]. B. Priestley (7 May to 26 October), Juno and the Paycock by Sean O’Casey (28 June to 12 October), The Charity That Began at Home: A Comedy for Philanthropists by St John Hankin (25 April to 11 October), The Sea by Edward Bond (1 June to 12 October), A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur by Tennessee Williams (28 June to 11 October), and The Mountaintop by Katori Hall (16 July to 7 September). For further information, write to Shaw Festival, Post Office Box 774, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada, L0S 1J0; or call 1-800-511-SHAW [7429] or 905-468-2153; or go to www.shawfest.com.

Shaw’s Corner

For information about summer performances of Shaw plays at Shaw’s Corner, Ayot St Lawrence, by Michael Friend Productions, contact Sue Morgan at Sue.Morgan@nationaltrust.org.uk. The plays staged in 2014 were The Philanderer (27 to 29 June) and Heartbreak House (25 to 27 July).

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