{"product_id":"9781442643826","title":"Bernard Shaw and Gilbert Murray","description":"\u003cp\u003eUnlikely friends and collaborators, Bernard Shaw and Gilbert Murray carried on a lively and wide-ranging correspondence for more than fifty years. When they began exchanging letters in the late 1890s, Shaw was a renowned Fabian propagandist, reviewer, and author of anti-conventional plays. Murray was a classicist and translator of ancient Greek drama who would eventually become Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford. Beginning with their shared distaste for the popular “well-made plays” of the era, their correspondence quickly expanded into collaboration – Murray helped revise Shaw’s \u003ci\u003eMajor Barbara\u003c\/i\u003e, in which he appears as a character – and discussion of a vast range of issues ranging from alphabet reform and psychic phenomena to the League of Nations and international politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection of 171 letters, most never before published, finally makes the fascinating Shaw\/Murray correspondence available. With explanatory headnotes and footnotes by Charles A. Carpenter, \u003ci\u003eBernard Shaw and Gilbert Murray\u003c\/i\u003e offers insight into an unusual literary and political friendship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47057633870064,"sku":"9781442643826","price":77.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781442643826_p0.jpg?v=1763810895","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781442643826","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}