Dismantling the notion that Shaw distorted Ibsen to promote his own view of the world, and establishing Shaw\'s initial interest in Ibsen as the poet of Peer Gynt, it chronicles Shaw\'s important role in the London Ibsen campaign and exposes the falsity of the tradition that Shaw branded Ibsen as a socialist..
Dismantling the notion that Shaw distorted Ibsen to promote his own view of the world, and establishing Shaw\'s initial interest in Ibsen as the poet of Peer Gynt, it chronicles Shaw\'s important role in the London Ibsen campaign and exposes the falsity of the tradition that Shaw branded Ibsen as a socialist.