RESEARCH AIDS
Here’s the sort of thing research turns up:
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Max Beerbohm was born on this day in 1872. Few of Beerbohm’s famous
contemporaries escaped him, but Shaw was a favorite target. |
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GEORG
BRANDES [the literary critic]: "What'll you take for the lot?" SHAW:
"Immortality." BRANDES:
"Come! I've handled these goods before! Coat, Mr. Schopenhauer's;
waistcoat, Mr. Ibsen's; Mr. Nietzsche's trousers”" SHAW:
"Ah, but look at the patches!" From “Today in Literature,” Aug. 25, 2010 |
Even if Beerbohm’s insinuations
were correct, the patches are quite spectacular, and tracking them down is (or
was) quite a chore, worthy of Hercules. The heroic, pre-computer age of
Shaw research may have passed with the passing of Dan H. Laurence, but there is
still much to be done, and the greater access to research materials that the
computer has brought should encourage that.
The books we’ve been relying on for so many years can now be
complemented, buttressed, and updated by what lies in cyberspace.
But where to start? Just
click on each of the categories below to find recommendations.
Databases, Searches, Concordances
One book not mentioned on any of
those pages is The British Library
Catalogue of G. B. Shaw Papers, published by the British Library in 2005,
and would that every library with a sizable Shaw collection provided such a
book.
Good hunting!
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