Too True to Be Good at the 1932 Malvern Festival

Ananisarab, Soudabeh (2018) Too True to Be Good at the 1932 Malvern Festival. SHAW: The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies, 38 (1). pp. 48-65. ISSN 1553-6505

[img]
Preview
Text
SHAW 38.1_05_Ananisarab (2) (1).pdf - Accepted Version

Download (641kB)

Abstract

The Malvern Festival was established in 1929 by the founder and then director of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Sir Barry Jackson. While the Festival began as an event solely dedicated to Shaw, Jackson’s guiding philosophy of the Festival soon changed its direction in later seasons as Jackson sought to present a glorified sense of England’s past to an audience of international visitors by means of an emphasis on lesser-known classics in English theater. This article explores the reception of Shaw’s Too True to Be Good (1932) in this context to argue that Shaw’s increasingly dystopian visions of England’s future as depicted in his later plays clashed with Jackson’s organization of the Festival and that Shaw’s inclusion in the repertoire and presence in Malvern largely contributed to the Festival’s failure in reconciling its images of the past and present.

Item Type: Article
Dates:
DateEvent
24 January 2018Accepted
1 June 2018Published
Subjects: CAH20 - historical, philosophical and religious studies > CAH20-01 - history and archaeology > CAH20-01-01 - history
CAH25 - design, and creative and performing arts > CAH25-02 - performing arts > CAH25-02-03 - drama
Divisions: Faculty of Arts, Design and Media > Birmingham Institute of Media and English > School of English
Depositing User: Soudabeh Ananisarab
Date Deposited: 03 Dec 2018 13:12
Last Modified: 03 Mar 2022 15:59
URI: https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/6487

Actions (login required)

View Item View Item

Research

In this section...