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SHAW’S ORIGINALITY |
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After an early production of ARMS AND THE MAN in London, a review
appeared in the New York Times (27 May 1894) announcing that the play was
coming to New York later, and the unknown reviewer prepared for that by a
general introduction to Shaw’s writing and character. In the middle of the article, Shaw was
summed up this way: “Mr. Shaw has an extremely original mind, and a strong
one, too. Shaw's view of things may be
as queer as Claude Monet's, to whom the grass is pink and the sky is purple,
but like the great impressionist, he has that force of character which makes
the thinking man, who believes in green grass and blue sky, pause and wonder
if he has been wrong all his life.” |