The Utopian Potential of Aging and Longevity in Bernard Shaw’s Back to Methuselah (1921)
George Bernard Shaw’s five-part play cycle Back to Methuselah (1921) has not been fully appreciated for its utopian criticality, a criticality that offers a profound reframing of longevity and old age. That it is a utopia in dramatic (rather than prose) form, deploys an unusual mix of largely comic...
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| Language: | English |
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Royal Danish Library
2020-01-01
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| Series: | Age, Culture, Humanities |
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| Online Access: | https://tidsskrift.dk/ageculturehumanities/article/view/130589 |