Reviews
"Leading us through this amazing wealth of connections, allusions, relationships, and influences, Weintraub never falters in his lucid writing that captures the reader's interest and fascination."
--SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Sudies
"Makes original and significant contributions to understanding of Shaw on many different fronts…makes attractive additions to Weintraub's imaginatively chosen cast of people - from the pages of history and from among his contemporaries - with whom Shaw engaged."
--English Literature in Transition
"Weintraub excels at hearing intertextual echoes, often between major plays by Shaw and journeyman plays by otherwise major dramatists. No one is more qualified than Stanley Weintraub, who has written more than fifty books, many of them path-finding studies of Shaw, to give us a synthetic account of Shaw’s histories and historicisms."
--Modern Language Review
"With a ready wit and an indefatigable detective’s willingness to seek out the ways that people and places and books speak to each other, Weintraub traces the bits and pieces and personalities that Shaw borrowed from the life and times around him, as he often spun the straw of the mundane into gold…it is Weintraub's storytelling skill that teases and tells and witholds, and then ties it all up with a panache that cannot be duplicated."
--Text and Presentation