Baker, Stuart Eddy 1938-

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Baker, Stuart Eddy 1938-

PERSONAL:

Born August 13, 1938, in Albuquerque, NM. Education: New York University, B.S., 1962; City University of New York, Ph.D., 1977.

ADDRESSES:

Office—School of Theatre, Florida State University, 600 W. College Ave., Tallahassee, FL 32306-1096.

CAREER:

Hunter College (now Hunter College of the City University of New York), New York, NY, adjunct lecturer, 1972-75, assistant professor of theatre history, 1977-82; Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 1982—, began as associate professor, currently professor of theatre and drama.

MEMBER:

American Theatre Association.

WRITINGS:

Georges Feydeau and the Aesthetics of Farce, UMI Research Press (Ann Arbor, MI), 1981.

Bernard Shaw's Remarkable Religion: A Faith That Fits the Facts, University Press of Florida (Gainesville, FL), 2002.

SIDELIGHTS:

Stuard Eddy Baker's Bernard Shaw's Remarkable Religion: A Faith That Fits the Facts examines the eminent English playwright's personal religious philosophy and how it varied both from a strict scientific materialism and a traditional sectarian creed. In a critique for the American Book Review, Daniel Leary called the book "first rate," adding: "Professor Baker blows dust off the scores of books on Shaw ranged along my shelves, blows dust off Shaw and his Life Force, blows upon the dust of science, and finds that desire, imagination, will, and agency are still glowing in the ashes." Leary concluded: "If you're a once-enthusiastic Shavian who now finds the old Irishman a tedious, blathering anachronism, or if you're a humanist who would do battle with science's heartbreaking materialism, read this book." Choice reviewer H.I. Einsohn called Bernard Shaw's Remarkable Religion "intriguing, rare, and worthwhile."