1. English Literature in the Twentieth century
... -five years. Shaw was able to make considerable use of this linguistic idiocy in the play, which remains his funniest work. Shaw was an Irishman, as was Oscar Wilde. Their outsiders' view of British society allowed them a freedom to observe it critically, which is not found so clearly in any English dramatist of the turn of the century. The plays of ... end of the century, however, novelists realised that there was no longer a shared and agreed community of values. SUBJECTIVITY: THE POPULAR TRADITION Together with the increase in objectivity given by outsiders, which permitted a differen...
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