G.B. Shaw is a literary Mohican who bestrode modern thought like a colossus, but he was not a historian in a popular sense. He wrote many plays on historical themes, and the success of his historical plays shows what he could have achieved if he had devoted himself to historical drama. The present book Major History Plays of Shaw: A Fresh Look presents a close study of Shaw's select history plays, especially the Shavian notion of historical truth. Shaw, perhaps, ...
