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From St John Ervine, ‘Note on Heartbreak House’ (copy of a BBC Third Programme talk script sent by Ervine to Ivo L. Currall; London: Currall Collection, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, n.d.). One of Shaw’s very late works, the puppet play, Shakes versus Shav, supports Ervine’s remarks here about the special regard that Shaw had for Heartbreak House. In the course of the play, in response to a challenge from Shakes, Shav conjures up a tableau from Heartbreak House of ‘Captain Shotover seated, as in Millais’ picture called North-West Passage, with a young woman of virginal beauty’, and exclaims: ‘Behold my Lear’ (Collected Plays, vol. V, p. 12).
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St Ervine, J. (1990). Shaw’s view of Heartbreak House . In: Gibbs, A.M. (eds) Shaw. Interviews and Recollections Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05402-2_174
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