Eric Bentley's masterful look at George Bernard Shaw was first published over 50 years ago, and time has only strengthened the conviction of his ideas and arguments about shaw. Bentley's success is in reconsidering shaw in the wake of the vast reams of critical analysis and social history compiled about Shaw in the last century. He looks at shaw through the three lenses of politics, religion and drama, and provides the most illuminating study ever to have been written of shaw's beliefs, his method and his meaning.