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The Shaw Society |
The Shaw Society is the only Shaw society that dates from Shaw’s lifetime.
Click here to read A Short History of the Society
by Barbara Smoker
Click here to read A Short History of the Society
by Barbara Smoker
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A Short History |
The Shavian is published twice a year and covers the many aspects of life that GBS was passionate about.
GBS and the Society
When the Society was founded on 26 July 1941, Bernard Shaw's eighty fifth birthday. He wanted nothing to do with the idea, and it was his curious letter of rejection that contained the phrase we quote here.
The Browning Society was a terror to Browning Shelley was dead, Shakespeare was dead,
I shall soon be dead.
We all provided a rallying point for the co-operation and education of kindred spirits and a forum for their irreconcilable controversies.
When the Society was founded on 26 July 1941, Bernard Shaw's eighty fifth birthday. He wanted nothing to do with the idea, and it was his curious letter of rejection that contained the phrase we quote here.
The Browning Society was a terror to Browning Shelley was dead, Shakespeare was dead,
I shall soon be dead.
We all provided a rallying point for the co-operation and education of kindred spirits and a forum for their irreconcilable controversies.
So go ahead, but don't bother me about it. I am old, deaf, and dotty. In short, a Has Been.
GBS November 1941
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