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...half-century of hero worship is not the best school for criticism. But though Henderson's judgments on Shaw are uniformly gentle, they are not undiscerning. The only writer of whom Shaw could be said to be jealous was Shakespeare; Henderson concedes the Beard's criticism of the Bard to have been often "provocative, unilateral, unjust, savage and false." And he credits Shakespeare with teaching Shaw "the technique of ultra-naturalism in dialogue," just as Moliere schooled him in "the plotless conversation piece," and Dickens showed him how to exaggerate characters "far beyond verisimilitude...
...scholarly snickers, aging (79) Biographer Archibald Henderson, a perennial examiner of Playwright George Bernard Shaw, trotted out a brand-new after-Shavian notion. It seems, related Henderson, that Shaw once got a letter that got the better of him. It was addressed to George Bernard Shawm. In a beard-tossing fury, Shaw roared to his wife that his correspondent could not even spell the name of the world's greatest man. Moreover, fumed G.B.S., there was no such word as "shawm." Shaw's wife, one of the world's most martyred women, quietly disagreed, led Shaw...
...seen Henry. Emerson's fame could not keep her from writing: "Where has his humanity gone, I wonder . . . He is like a ghost to me. I never feel he cares, from his heart, for any human being." As for James Russell Lowell, she noted that shaving off his beard "takes half the poetry from his face...
...sitting in Hayes-Bickford, Mr. Brunner, and you wonder whether that beard-and-sandals across the aisle is real, look to see if he has a smile on his face...
...Blanch Posnet is a languid Western yarn, a genre in which the writer proves himself very ill at ease. Shaw is no cowboy. Neither is his hero, it must be admitted: Blanco is a kicking cousin of Dick Dudgeon, a would-be Hotspur in Levis and a grizzly beard, whose poetic force is out of place amid long-jawed neighbors. Blanco's tale is simple. He steals a horse. After a few twists involving first a slut then the mother of a just-dead baby, he is set free. The whole situation seems rather tired, as do Shaw's lines...