Overview: Represents the first book-length study of Shaw in relation to crime and punishment.Looks to Shaw‘s non-dramatic writings, speeches and actions in addition to his plays.Holds appeal for scholars of VicThis 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
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