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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW (1856-1950)
A twenty-six page typescript entitled: "Shakespeare and Shaw" by J.G.D. Hodgson, with a one page criticism of 22 lines in pencil by Shaw, signed and dated 6th November 1937.
Shaw remarks that Hodgson has never grasped his subject firmly, and "wanders repeatedly into mere impertinences (in the literal sense) ... Shakespeare was engaged in adapting other author's stories to the stage, and therefore had to foist upon his original characters all the murders and plots and deceptions and claptraps of the borrowed romance or melodrama ... I am so completely free from this obligation that I never know where my characters will lead me ... My plays consist of 'situations' produced by my characters, who have never, like Hamlet and Macbeth, to do things that are utterly foreign to their natures," in the original envelope in Shaw's hand, bound with the typescript in half morocco (extremities lightly rubbed).
A twenty-six page typescript entitled: "Shakespeare and Shaw" by J.G.D. Hodgson, with a one page criticism of 22 lines in pencil by Shaw, signed and dated 6th November 1937.
Shaw remarks that Hodgson has never grasped his subject firmly, and "wanders repeatedly into mere impertinences (in the literal sense) ... Shakespeare was engaged in adapting other author's stories to the stage, and therefore had to foist upon his original characters all the murders and plots and deceptions and claptraps of the borrowed romance or melodrama ... I am so completely free from this obligation that I never know where my characters will lead me ... My plays consist of 'situations' produced by my characters, who have never, like Hamlet and Macbeth, to do things that are utterly foreign to their natures," in the original envelope in Shaw's hand, bound with the typescript in half morocco (extremities lightly rubbed).