Bernard Shaw's Interior Authors: The Novels

Abstract

abstract:This study serves as a prequel to my article "Shaw's Interior Authors: Censored and Modern," which explores Shaw's use of characters who write in his plays and who experience some form of censorship that resembles the experiences of their creator. Interestingly, characters in the early works of Shaw, his five novels, also feel the sting of censorship, albeit in differing degrees from those in his dramas. Because Shaw's works, both plays and novels, that were suppressed often feature harsh indictments of established society, they become, in effect, proto-modern, as he attacks class, gender, and religious norms of his day.