Reviews
"Illuminates … how Major Barbara rewards attention to every word, allusion, and stage direction."
--Upstage
"For a volume that is so tightly focused on one work, its perspective is suprisingly -- and satisfyingly -- expansive…demonstrates a mode of reading Shaw's drama, a perspective on the depth of the playwright's achievement measured by the breadth of its various resonances… Albert's Shaw is far more than a writer of pointed philosophical and political comedies. He is a playwright of mythic scope, his signature work is a drama of epic dimensions."
--Comparative Drama
"A remarkable product of long-term accumulated scholarship, embodying as it does Albert's erudition in the fields of philosophy, classics, and drama that he began amassing in the 1930s, sharpened into a focus on Shaw and Major Barbara in the 1960s, and completely only in early 2012."
--Shaw Annual
"Long-awaited monograph...encapsulates a lifetime of reading and writing about the enigmatic and provocative play…takes seriously the classical allusions and mythical structures in the play and follows the clues that Shaw dropped throughout the play text to uncover and highlight the mythic structure and form that he sees as a controlling feature of Shaw's masterpiece."
--Text and Presentation