His 1891 essay "The Quintessence of Ibsenism" promoted the realistic dramas of a fellow playwright
The Playwright George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) is acclaimed as the 
most... [DOC] [TLE] Bernard Shaw's Reconfiguration of Dramatic Genres as Force-fields ... [PAR] His reputation in university departments of English or drama is extremely limited; 
his ... Realism and Idealism in Shaw's Socialist Aesthetics ..... My stimulating 
discussions with fellow students in these forums served a .... Added to these are 
his major critical essays: The Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891), The Sanity of Art
... [DOC] [TLE] "The Irrational Knot": The Art of Shaw as a Young Ibsenite - JStor [PAR] flags: at first Shaw tosses over the work to follow as one of his "silly .... novelist for 
signs of the famous playwright.8 Only three critics take ...