TY  - BOOK
AU  - Guy,Stéphane
TI  - Progress and Theatrical Illusion: The Theater of Commitment in George Bernard Shaw’s Heartbreak House (1915)
PY  - 2002///.
							
N1  - 47
N2  - A major play in the production of George Bernard Shaw, Heartbreak House reflects his conception of a theatre of commitment: for the betterment of English society, the theatre may reconcile æsthetics and politics, thereby becoming an aim rather than merely a means. By representing the decadence stigmatised by the playwright together with disillusion and improvement, the play establishes a metatheatre where dramatic space proves a metaphor of Shaw’s committed stage, where characters outgrow the limits of illusion by deconstructing their theatrical essence
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-etudes-anglaises-2002-1-page-40?lang=en
ER  -