Bernard Shaw, Director

First published in 1971, this first full-length treatment of Shaw as director is important for several reasons: Shaw was one of the few major playwrights who frequently directed his own works; he was a good director; and he is an early example of the modern idea of the director as guiding artist in the production of a play.

Bernard F. Dukore is University Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Theatre Arts and Humanities at Virginia Tech, USA. He has written extensively on Bernard Shaw and other modern dramatists, including Shaw's fellow-Nobel prizewinner, Harold Pinter. His most recent books on Shaw are Crimes and Punishments and Bernard Shaw (2017), Bernard Shaw and the Censors: Fights and Failures, Stage and Screen (2020), and Unions, Strikes, Shaw: "The Capitalism of the Proletariat" (2022).

Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Theatre Background and Experience 2. The Director: Goals and Groundwork 3. General Directing Practices 4. The Actor 5. Stage Effects and Stage Effectiveness 6. The Technical Elements of Production 7. The Business of Theatre. Bibliography. Index.