Crimes and Punishments and Bernard Shaw
Produktinformationen "Crimes and Punishments and Bernard Shaw"
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.
| Autor: | Dukore, Bernard F. |
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| ISBN: | 9783319873824 |
| Verlag: | Springer International Publishing |
| Auflage: | 1 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 243 |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 24.08.2018 |
| Verlag: | Springer International Publishing |
| Schlagworte: | American Revolution American War of Independence Bernard Shaw Capital punishment Edwardian England Man and Superman Prostitution Saint Joan Victorian England Women’s Suffrage Movement in Britain |
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