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Bernard F. Dukore

    Cet auteur explore les complexités de l'expérience humaine à travers son écriture dramatique. Ses œuvres abordent souvent des questions profondes sur l'existence et les normes sociétales. Il examine la psyché humaine avec une vive intelligence et un regard perspicace. Sa contribution littéraire réside dans sa capacité à porter sur scène des récits stimulants et résonants.

    Crimes and Punishments and Bernard Shaw
    American Dramatists 1918-1945
    • Crimes and Punishments and Bernard Shaw

      • 256pages
      • 9 heures de lecture

      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.

      Crimes and Punishments and Bernard Shaw