Download or read book Shaw's Sense of History written by J. L. Wisenthal and published by Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shaw told Ellen Terry that he required whole populations and historical epochs to engage his interests seriously, and this book examines his engagement-as a dramatist-with historical issues. It explores his sense of history in plays set in the past, and it also demonstrates that many of Shaw's plays, although set in the present or future, can profitably be seen as history plays in that they dramatize historical issues.