Review Essay: The "Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries" Series

This review essay offers an introduction to Palgrave Macmillan's "Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries" series. It discusses and praises in great detail four titles in particular: Nelson O'Ceallaigh Ritschel's Bernard Shaw, W. T. Stead, and the New Journalism: Whitechapel, Parnell, Titanic, and the Great War; Joan Templeton's Shaw's Ibsen: A Re-Appraisal; Bernard Dukore's Crimes and Punishments and Bernard Shaw; and Christopher Wixson's Bernard Shaw and Modern Advertising: Prophet Motives. The series editors decided to broaden the scope of the series beyond just Shaw to his contemporaries and Shaw's historical context. Shaw interacted with so many well-known people and so many socio-economic, political, scientific, religious, and artistic movements of his day. This and much else is covered by the books in this important series. [123 words]