Abstract
‘Puritan’ focuses on George Bernard Shaw’s moulding of stage comedy to dramatize the workings of his emerging religion, christened ‘Creative Evolution’ in 1916. Under the aegis of the Life Force, Shaw’s ambition to create a ‘big book of devotion for modern people’ was fortified by an evangelism that would yoke all of his varied writings. The chapter then looks at Shaw’s Man and Superman (1901–2), which premiered at the Royal Court Theatre. Two other plays by Shaw—John Bull's Other Island (1904) and Major Barbara (1905)—continue his enquiry into how the institutions of worldly power can best be of service to the Life Force.
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