Shaw's Settings: Gardens and Libraries

Notes

Notes Introduction 1. Rodelle Weintraub, “Johnny’s Dream in Misalliance,” 179. 2. Arthur Ganz, George Bernard Shaw, 54. 3. George Bernard Shaw, Widowers’ Houses, in Plays Unpleasant: Widowers’ Houses; The Philanderer; Mrs Warren’s Profession, 31. Future citations are from this edition. 4. Ibid., 53. 5. Michael Holroyd, Bernard Shaw: The One-Volume Definitive Edition, 51. 6. Ibid. 7. Caryl Churchill, Serious Money, 230–31. 8. Richard Schechner, Performance Studies: An Introduction, 2. 9. Raymond Williams, Drama in Performance, 4. 10. Ibid. 11. Ibid., 4–5. 12. Ibid., 172–73. 13. Ibid., 178. 14. Ibid., 177. 15. Ibid., 189. Chapter 1. Widowers’ Houses: “Life Here Is a Perfect Idyll” 1. Frederick J. Marker, “Shaw’s Early Play,” 110. 2. Ganz, Shaw, 81. 3. Frederick P. W. McDowell, “Widowers’ Houses: A Play for the 1890s and the 1990s,” 231. 4. Ibid., 239. 5. Ibid., 238. 6. Ibid. 7. Charles Carpenter, Bernard Shaw and the Art of Destroying Ideals: The Early Plays. 35. 8. Ibid., 36.· 131 · 132 · Notes to Pages 7–16 9. Marker, “Shaw’s Early Play,” 104. 10. Carpenter, Shaw and the Art of Destroying Ideals, 40. 11. Ganz, Shaw, 85. 12. Marker, “Shaw’s Early Play,” 106. 13. Kristin Morrison, “Horrible Flesh and Blood,” 8. 14. Morrison quotes from a letter from Wilde to Shaw about his reading of and admiration for Widowers’ Houses, “with its detailed character descriptions,” after which “Wilde for the first time used such descriptions in a play of his own,” and “they sound just like Shaw’s” (ibid., 8). The play under discussion is An Ideal Husband, which, according to Morrison, “abounds in this [the description of Lickcheese] kind of Shavian detail for both major and minor characters,” and, she continues, “these interpretive stage directions represent the influence of Shaw” (9). Before Wilde’s encounter with Widowers’ Houses, this was not Wilde’s “custom” (7). 15. Shaw, Widowers’ Houses, 31. 16. Ibid., 32. 17. Ibid. 18. Ibid., 33. 19. Ibid., 32. 20. Ibid., 42. 21. Ibid., 34. 22. Ibid., 35. 23. Ibid., 42. 24. Ibid. 25. Ibid., 47. 26. McDowell, “Widowers’ Houses,” 238. 27. James Woodfield, “Shaw’s Widowers’ Houses: Comedy for Socialism’s Sake,” 55. 28. Shaw, Widowers’ Houses, 27. 29. Ibid., 33. 30. Ibid. 31. Ibid. 32. Ibid., 34. 33. Ibid., 37. 34. Ibid., 33. 35. Ibid., 44. 36. Ibid. 37. Ibid. 38. Ibid. 39. Ganz, Shaw, 81. 40. Woodfield, “Shaw’s Widowers’ Houses,” 56. 41. Shaw, Widowers’ Houses, 50. 42. Ibid., 52. 43. Ibid., 37. 44. Ibid., 38. 45. Ibid., 44. Notes to Pages 16–21 · 133 46. Ibid. 47. Ibid., 38. 48. Ibid., 39. 49. Ibid. 50. Ibid., 41. 51. McDowell, “Widowers’ Houses,” 238. 52. Woodfield, “Shaw’s Widowers’ Houses,” 54. 53. Martha Vogeler, “Widowers’ Houses and the London County Council,” 5. 54. Shaw, Widower’s Houses, 57. 55. Ibid., 60. Raymond S. Nelson, in “Shaw’s Widowers’ Houses,” 27–37, quotes from Reverend Andrew Mearns’s The Bitter Cry of Outcast Land, which is quoted in J. A. R. Pimlott, Toynbee Hall: Fifty Years of Social Progress, 1884–1934 (London, 1935), 30. Talking about a slum he visited, Mearns wrote, “to get into them you have to penetrate courts reeking with poisonous and malodorous gases arising from accumulations of sewage and refuse scattered in all directions and often flowing beneath your feet; courts many of them which the sun never penetrates and which are never visited by a breath of air. Drains and sewers were bad if they existed, and most tenements like those in Robbins ’s Row had poor drainage and high death rates”; Nelson adds, “Shaw knew these conditions well” (“Shaw’s Widowers’ Houses,” 32). 56. Shaw, Widowers’ Houses, 36. 57. Ibid. 58. Ibid., 60. 59. Ibid., 61. 60. Ibid., 62. 61. Ibid., 58. 62. Ibid., 61. 63. Ibid. McDowell notes that Blanche’s “indifference toward the unfortunate, her possessiveness, and her cruelty are not only personal qualities, they are also symbolic of a demoralized, unjust society” (“Widowers’ Houses,” 237). 64. Shaw, Widowers’ Houses, 53. 65. Ibid. 66. Marker, “Shaw’s Early Play,” 108. 67. Shaw, Widowers’ Houses, 57. 68. Ibid., 53. 69. Ibid., 54. 70. Ibid., 64. 71. Ibid., 65. 72. Ibid., 66. 73. Ibid., 67. 74. Ibid., 78. 75. Bernard Dukore, “Widowers’ Houses: A Question of Genre,” 31. 76. Ibid. 77. Shaw, Widowers’ Houses, 78. 78. Ibid., 85. 134 · Notes to Pages 21–27 79. Ibid., 82. 80. Ibid., 85. 81. Ibid...