ABSTRACT
Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), playwright and critic, in the earlier stages of his career contributed a series of important reviews of contemporary theatre productions to the ‘Saturday Review’, from 1895 to 1898. The productions of William Poel (1852–1934) were most influential in the formation of techniques and attitudes in the modern theatre. For the references to ‘Mr. G. B. Shaw’, Lamb and Swinburne, see Introduction pp. 12 and 22, and Nos 27 and 52. This review, published 11 July 1896, speaks not only for Shaw but for any surfeited with the kind of comment reproduced in the present collection.
