La peur du prolétaire et les paradoxes du socialisme shavien dans Widowers’ Houses

As a socialist reformer and critic of revolutionary Marxism, the Fabian Bernard Shaw was intent on entrusting the middle-class bourgeoisie with the march to collectivism. His first dramatic work, Widowers’ Houses, is pervaded with the ambivalence underlying such a stance. Beyond the fear that is rep...

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Main Author: Stéphane Guy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2008-12-01
Series:Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/cve/8487
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description As a socialist reformer and critic of revolutionary Marxism, the Fabian Bernard Shaw was intent on entrusting the middle-class bourgeoisie with the march to collectivism. His first dramatic work, Widowers’ Houses, is pervaded with the ambivalence underlying such a stance. Beyond the fear that is represented throughout and the dread of capitalism that it seeks to bring about among the Victorian public, the play builds up a dramaturgy of threat, breaking with the fashionable theatres of late nineteenth century London and paradoxically making the proletarian into both a victim and symptom of capitalist immorality.
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