Bernard F. Dukore Knihy
Tento autor skúma zložitosť ľudskej skúsenosti prostredníctvom svojho dramatického písania. Jeho diela sa často zaoberajú hlbokými otázkami existencie a spoločenskými normami. Skúma ľudskú psychiku s bystrou inteligenciou a prenikavým pohľadom. Jeho literárny prínos spočíva v jeho schopnosti prinášať na javisko provokatívne a podnetné príbehy.
Crimes and Punishments and Bernard Shaw
- 256 stránok
- 9 hodin čítania
This book analyzes the interaction of crimes, punishments, and Bernard Shaw in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It explores crimes committed by professional criminals, nonprofessional criminals, businessmen, believers in a cause, the police, the Government, and prison officials. It examines punishments decreed by judges, juries, colonial governors, commissars, and administered by the police, prison warders, and prison doctors. It charts Shaw's view of crimes and punishments in dramatic writings, non-dramatic writings, and his actions in real life. This book presents him in the context of his contemporaries and his world, inviting readers to view crimes and punishments in their context, history, and relevance to his ideas in and outside his plays, plus the relevance of his ideas to crimes and punishments in life. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. To Begin With.- 2. The Fundamental Crimes.- 3. Crimes Past, Crimes Present.- 4. Treason.- 5. The Malleability of the Law.- 6. The Law and the Innocent.- 7. Crimes and the Professional Writer.- 8. Women, Crime, and Punishment.- 9. Corporal Punishment and Worse.- 10. Crimes, Punishments, and Bernard Shaw.- Bibliography.- Notes.- Index.
