Our Theatres in the Nineties - Vol. IIPaperback, 20 September 2007

This is the second volume of Bernard Shaw's Our Theatres in the Nineties. It is an interesting and insightful collection of criticisms concerning the state of the theatre in the 1890s that will be of considerable value to anyone with an interest in the history and development of American theatre. The chapters of this book include: "Near Year Dreams", "Plays of the Week", "Michael and his Lost Angel", "Church and Stage", "Dear Harp of my Country", "Another Failure", "The Tailor and the Stage", "Two Plays", "Pinero and Grundy on G.B.S.", "The Return of Mrs. Pat", etcetera. George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 - 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. We are republishing this vintage text now in an affordable, modern edition - complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.