George Bernard Shaw
(1856 - 1950)
Born Dublin July 26, 1856. Died St. Lawrence, Hertfordshire November 2, 1950
Stage Works
- Passion Play. Play, 2 acts; verse. Written 1878.
- Un Petit Drame. Skit, 1 act. Written 1884. Published 1959.
- Widowers' Houses. Original didactic realistic play. Written 1885-1892. Published 1893, 1898. Produced London, Royalty Theatre, Dec. 9, 1892.
- The Philanderer. Topical comedy of the early 1890s, 4 acts. Written 1893. Published 1898. Produced London, Cripplegate Institute, Feb. 20, 1905; Court Theatre, Feb. 5, 1907.
- Mrs. Warren's Profession. 4 acts. Written 1893. Published 1898. Produced London, New Lyric Club, Jan. 5, 1902.
- Arms and the Man. Romantic comedy, 3 acts. Written 1894. Published 1898. Produced London, Avenue Theatre, Apr. 21, 1894.
- Candida. Mystery (this subtitle was subsequently removed by Shaw), 3 acts. Written 1895. Published 1898. Produced Aberdeen, Her Majesty's Theatre, July 30, 1897; London, Strand Theatre, July 1, 1900.
- The Man of Destiny. Trifle, 1 act. Written 1895. Published 1898. Produced Croydon, Grand Theatre, July 1, 1897; London, Comedy Theatre, Mar. 29, 1901.
- You Never Can Tell. Pleasant play, 4 acts. Written 1896. Published 1898. Produced London, Royalty Theatre, Nov. 26, 1899; Strand Theatre, June 4, 1907.
- The Devil's Disciple. Melodrama, 3 acts. Written 1897. Published 1901. Produced Bayswater, Bijou Theatre, Apr. 17, 1897; Albany, N. Y., Hermanus Bleecker Hall, Oct. 1, 1897; Kennington, Princess of Wales's Theatre, Sept. 26, 1899.
- The Gadfly: or The Son of the Cardinal. Play. Produced Bayswater, Bijou Theatre, Mar. 31, 1898.
- Caesar and Cleopatra. History, 4 acts. Written 1898. Published 1901. Produced Berlin, Mar. 31, 1906 (in German); New York, New Amsterdam Theatre, Oct. 30, 1906; Leeds, Grand Theatre, Sept. 16, 1907.
- Captain Brassbound's Conversion. Adventure, 3 acts. Written 1899. Published 1901. Produced London, Strand Theatre, Dec. 16, 1900.
- The Admirable Bashville, or Constancy Unrewarded. Play, 3 acts; verse. Written 1901. Published 1909. Produced London, Imperial Theatre, June 7, 1903. Based on Shaw's novel Cashel Byron's Profession.
- Man and Superman. A comedy and a philosophy, 4 acts (usually produced without Act III, which is presented separately as Don Juan in Hell). Written 1903. Published 1903. Produced London, Court Theatre, May 23, 1905.
- Don Juan in Hell. Act III of Man and Superman, usually produced separately. Written 1903. Published 1903. Produced London, Royal Court Theatre, Jan. 4, 1907.
- John Bull's Other Island. Play, 4 acts. Written 1904. Published 1907. Produced London, Royal Court Theatre, Nov. 1, 1904.
- How He Lied to Her Husband. Play, 1 act. Written 1904. Published 1907. Produced New York, Berkeley Lyceum, Sept. 26, 1904; London, Royal Court Theatre, Feb. 28, 1905.
- Major Barbara. Play, 3 acts. Written 1905. Published 1907. Produced London, Royal Court Theatre, Nov. 28, 1905.
- Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction; or The Fatal Gazogene. Brief tragedy for bams and booths, 1 act. Written 1905. Published 1905. Produced London, Regent's Park, July 15, 1905.
- The Doctor's Dilemma. Tragedy, 4 acts and epilogue. Written 1906. Published 1911. Produced London, Royal Court Theatre, Nov. 20, 1906.
- The Interlude at the Playhouse. Playlet, 1 scene. Written 1907. Published 1907. Produced London, Playhouse, Jan. 28, 1907.
- Getting Married. Disquisitory play, 1 long act. Written 1908. Published 1911. Produced London, Haymarket Theatre, May 12, 1908.
- The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet. Sermon in crude melodrama, 1 act. Written 1909. Published 1911. Produced Dublin, Abbey Theatre, Aug. 25, 1909; London, Aldwych Theatre, Dec. 5, 1909.
- Press Cuttings. Topical sketch compiled from the editorial and correspondence columns of the daily press during the woman's war in 1909, 1 long act. Written 1909. Published 1909. Produced London, Royal Court Theatre, July 9, 1909.
- Fascinating Foundling. Disgrace to the author, 1 act. Written 1909. Published 1926. Produced London, Arts Theatre Club, Jan. 28, 1928.
- The Glimpse of Reality. Tragedietta, 1 act. Written 1909. Published 1926. Produced Glasgow, Fellowship Hall, Oct. 8, 1927; London, Arts Theatre Club, Nov. 20, 1927.
- Misalliance. Debate in one sitting (no act divisions). Written 1910. Published 1914. Produced London, Duke of York's Theatre, Feb. 23, 1910.
- The Dark Lady of the Sonnets. Interlude, 1 act. Written 1910. Published 1914. Produced London, Haymarket Theatre, Nov. 24, 1910.
- Fanny's First Play. Easy play for a little theatre; introduction, 3 acts, and epilogue. Written 1911. Published 1914. Produced London, Little Theatre, Apr. 19, 1911.
- Androcles and the Lion. Fable play, prologue and 2 acts. Written 1912. Published 1916. Produced Berlin, 1912 (in German); London, St. James's Theatre, Sept. 1, 1913.
- Overruled. Demonstration, 1 act. Written 1912. Published 1916. Produced London, Duke of York's Theatre, Oct. 14, 1912.
- Beauty's Duty. Playlet, 1 scene. Written 1913. Published 1932.
- Pygmalion. Romance, 5 acts. Written 1912/13. Published 1914, 1916. Produced Vienna, Hofburgtheater, Oct. 16, 1913 (in German); London, His Majesty's Theatre, Apr. 11, 1914.
- Great Catherine (Whom Glory Still Adores). A thumbnail sketch of Russian court life during the eighteenth century, 4 scenes. Written 1913. Published 1919. Produced London, Vaudeville Theatre, Nov. 18, 1913.
- The Music Cure. Piece of utter nonsense, 1 act. Written 1913. Published 1926. Produced London, Little Theatre, Jan. 28, 1914.
- O'Flaherty V.C. A recruiting pamphlet, reminiscence of 1915. Written 1915. Published 1919. Produced Belgium, on the western front, Feb. 17, 1917; New York, Thirty-ninth Street Theatre, June 21, 1920.
- The Inca of Perusalem. An almost historical comedietta, prologue and 1 act. Written 1916. Published 1919. Produced Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Oct. 7, 1916.
- 39. Augustus Does His Bit. A true-to-life farce, unofficial dramatic tract on war saving and cognate topics; 1 act. Written 1916. Published 1919. Produced London, Royal Court Theatre, Jan. 21, 1917.
- Macbeth Skit. Play. Written 1916. Published Educational Theatre Journal, 1967, with introduction by B. F. Dukore.
- Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress. Revolutionary romancelet, 1 act. Written 1917. Published 1919. Produced London, Coliseum, Jan. 21, 1918.
- Heartbreak House. Fantasia in the Russian manner on English themes, 3 acts. Written 1913/19. Published 1919. Produced New York, Garrick Theatre, Nov. 10, 1920; London, Royal Court Theatre, Oct. 18, 1921.
- Back to Methuselah. Metabiological pentateuch, 5 parts (I: In the Beginning; II: The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas; III: The Thing Happens; IV: Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman; V: As Far as Thought Can Reach). Written 1918/20. Published 1921. Produced New York, Garrick Theatre, Feb. 27, 1922; Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Oct. 9, 1923; London, Royal Court Theatre, Feb. 18, 1924.
- A Glimpse of the Domesticity of Franklin Barnabas. Play, written as Act II of Back to Methuselah. Written 1920. Published 1932. Produced New York, 1960.
- Jitta's Atonement. Play, 3 acts. Written 1922. Published 1926. Produced Washington, ShubertGarrick Theatre, Jan. 8, 1923; London, Grand Theatre, Jan. 26, 1925. Translation of Siegfried Trebitsch's Frau Gittas Sühne.
- Saint Joan. Chronicle play, 6 scenes and epilogue. Written 1923. Published 1924. Produced New York, Garrick Theatre, Dec. 28, 1923; London, New Theatre, Mar. 26, 1924.
- The Apple Cart. Political extravaganza, 3 acts. Written 1929. Published 1930. Produced Warsaw, Teatr Polski, June 14, 1929 (in Polish); Malvern, Festival Theatre, Aug. 19, 1929.
- Too True to Be Good. Political extravaganza, 3 acts. Written 1931. Produced Boston, Colonial Theatre, Feb. 29, 1932, New York, Guild Theatre, Apr. 4, 1932; Malvern, Festival Theatre, Aug. 6, 1932; London, New Theatre, Sept. 13, 1932.
- How These Doctors Love One Another! Playlet, 1 scene. Written 1931. Published 1932.
- Village Wooing. Comedietta for two voices, 3 conversations. Written 1933. Produced Dallas, Little Theatre Company, Apr. 16, 1934; Tunbridge Wells Repertory Players, May 1, 1934.
- On the Rocks. Political comedy, 2 acts. Written 1933. Produced London, Winter Garden Theatre, Nov. 25, 1933.
- The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles. Vision of judgment, prologue and 2 acts. Written 1934. Produced New York, Guild Theatre, Feb. 18, 1935; Malvern, Festival Theatre, July 29, 1935.
- The Six of Calais. Medieval war story, 1 act. Written 1934. Produced London, Regent's Park Open-air Theatre, July 17, 1934.
- The Millionairess. Jonsonian comedy, 4 acts. Written 1935. Produced Vienna, Akademietheater, Jan. 4, 1936 (in German); Melbourne, King's Theatre, Mar. 7, 1936; Bexhill, De La Warre Pavilion, Nov. 17, 1936.
- Arthur and the Acetone. Playlet, 3 acts. Written 1936. Published 1936.
- Cymbeline Refinished. Variation on Shakespeare's Act V ending, 1 act; verse. Written 1937. Published 1938. Produced Swiss Cottage, London, Embassy Theatre, Nov. 16, 1937.
- Geneva. Fancied page of history (another political extravaganza), 4 acts. Written 1938. Produced Malvern, Festival Theatre, Aug. 1, 1938; London, Saville Theatre, Nov. 22, 1938.
- "In Good King Charles's Golden Days." History lesson (a true history that never happened), 2 acts. Written 1939. Produced Malvern, Festival Theatre, Aug. 12, 1939; London, Streatham Hill Theatre, Apr. 15, 1940.
- The British Party System. Playlet, 1 scene. Written 1944.
- Buoyant Billions. Comedy of no manners, 4 acts. Published 1947. Produced Zurich, Schauspielhaus, Oct. 21, 1948, under the title Zu viel Geld (Too Much Money); Malvern, Festival Theatre, Aug. 13, 1949.
- Farfetched Fables. Six fables. Written 1948. Published 1949. Produced London, Watergate Theatre, Sept. 6, 1950; Newcastle, People's Theatre, Jan. 13, 1951.
- Shakes versus Shav. Puppet play, 1 scene; verse. Written 1949. Produced Malvern.
- Why She Would Not. Incomplete comedietta, 5 scenes. Written 1950.
Criticism
- H. Jackson, Bernard Shaw, London, 1907;
- A. Henderson, George Bernard Shaw: His Life and Works, London, 1911;
- C. F. Armstrong, Shakespeare to Shaw, London, 1913;
- J. L. Palmer, George Bernard Shaw: Harlequin or Patriot?, New York, 1915;
- R. Burton, Bernard Shaw: The Man and the Mask, New York, 1916;
- A. F. Hamon, The Twentieth Century Molière: Bernard Shaw, tr. by E. and C. Paul, New York, 1916;
- H. Skinpole, Bernard Shaw: The Man and His Work, London, 1918;
- J. G. Huneker, Iconoclasts, New York, 1919;
- H. C. Duffin, The Quintessence of Bernard Shaw, London, 1920;
- G. Norwood, Euripides and Shaw, with Other Essays, Boston and London, 1921;
- E. B. Shanks, Bernard Shaw, London, 1924;
- J. S. Collis, Shaw, New York, 1925;
- C. L. Broad and V. M. Broad, Dictionary to the Plays and Novels of Bernard Shaw, London, 1929;
- E. C. Wagenknecht, A Guide to Bernard Shaw, New York, 1929;
- M. Ellehauge, The Position of Bernard Shaw in European Drama and Philosophy, Copenhagen, 1931;
- F. Harris, Bernard Shaw, New York, 1931;
- A. Henderson, Bernard Shaw, Playboy and Prophet, London, 1932;
- R. F. Rattray, Bernard Shaw: A Chronicle and an Introduction, London, 1934;
- S. C. Sen Gupta, The Art of Bernard Shaw, London, 1936;
- J. P. Hackett, Shaw: George versus Bernard, New York, 1937;
- R. H. Sherard, Bernard Shaw, Frank Harris & Oscar Wilde, New York, 1937;
- E. Strauss, Bernard Shaw: Art and Socialism, London, 1942;
- J. M. Brown, Seeing Things, New York, 1946;
- S. Winsten, ed., G.B.S. 90: Aspects of Bernard Shaw's Life and Work, London, 1946;
- W. Clarke, George Bernard Shaw: An Appreciation and Interpretation, Altrincham, England, 1948;
- E. Wilson, The Triple Thinkers, rev. and enl. ed., New York 1948;
- M. D. Colboume, The Real Bernard Shaw, London, 1949;
- C. E. M. Joad, Shaw, London, 1949;
- A. M. Laing, ed., In Praise of Bernard Shaw, London, 1949;
- S. Winsten, Days with Bernard Shaw, New York, 1949;
- E. Fuller, George Bernard Shaw, New York, 1950;
- A. West, "A Good Man Fallen among Fabians," London, 1950;
- D. MacCarthy, Shaw, London, 1951;
- A. C. Ward, Bernard Shaw, London, 1951;
- S. Winsten, Shaw's Corner, London, 1952;
- I. J.C. Brown, Shaw in His Time, London, 1955;
- G. K. Chesterton, George Bernard Shaw, New York, 1956;
- St. J. G. Ervine, Bernard Shaw: His Life, Work, and Friends, London and New York, 1956;
- A. Henderson, George Bernard Shaw: Man of the Century, Washington, 1957;
- L. Kronenberger, ed., George Bernard Shaw: A Critical Survey, Cleveland, 1957;
- J. B. Kaye, Bernard Shaw and the Nineteenth-century Tradition, Norman, Okla., 1958;
- P. Kozelka, A Glossary to the Plays of Bernard Shaw, New York, 1959;
- A. Chappelow, ed., Shaw the Villager and Human Being: A Biographical Symposium, New York, 1962;
- R. M. Ohmann, Shaw: The Style and the Man, Middletown, Conn., 1962;
- M. Shenfield, George Bernard Shaw: A Pictorial Biography, London, 1962;
- S. S. Stanton, ed., A Casebook on Candida, New York, 1962;
- C. G. L. Du Cann, The Loves of George Bernard Shaw, New York, 1963;
- L. Langner, G. B. S. and the Lunatic, New York, 1963;
- M. Meisel, Shaw and the Nineteenth-century Theater, Princeton, N. J., 1963;
- H. Pearson, George Bernard Shaw: His Life and Personality, New York, 1963;
- C. B. Purdom, A Guide to the Plays of Bernard Shaw, New York, 1963;
- S. Weintraub, Private Shaw and Public Shaw: A Dual Portrait of Lawrence of Arabia and G. B. S., New York, 1963;
- A. Williamson, Bernard Shaw: Man and Writer, New York, 1963;
- H. E. Woodbridge, George Bernard Shaw: Creative Artist, Carbondale, Ill., 1963;
- B. C. Rosset, Shaw of Dublin: The Formative Years, University Park, Pa., 1964;
- B. B. Watson, A Shavian Guide to the Intelligent Woman, New York, 1964;
- D. P. Costello, The Serpent's Eye, Notre Dame, Ind., 1965;
- R. J. Kaufmann, ed., G. B. Shaw: A Collection of Critical Essays, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1965;
- G. A. Pilecki, Shaw's Geneva, The Hague, 1965;
- J. P. Smith, The Unrepentant Pilgrim: A Study of the Development of Bernard Shaw, Boston, 1965;
- A. H. Nethercot, Men and Supermen: The Shavian Portrait Gallery, 2d ed., New York, 1966;
- J. O'Donovan, Shaw and the Charlatan Genius, Chester Springs, Pa., 1966;
- E. R. Bentley, Bernard Shaw, 2d British ed., London, 1967;
- H. Fromm, Bernard Shaw and the Theater in the Nineties, Lawrence, Kans., 1967;
- F. Mayne, The Wit and Satire of Bernard Shaw, London, 1967;
- O. E. Coolidge, George Bernard Shaw, Boston, 1968;
- B. F. Dukore, ed., Saint Joan: A Screenplay by Bernard Shaw, Seattle, 1968;
- W. Irvine, The Universe of G. B. S., New York, 1968;
- C. A. Carpenter, Bernard Shaw & the Art of Destroying Ideals: The Early Plays, Madison, Wis., 1969;
- A. Chappelow, Shaw, "the Chucker-out," London, 1969;
- L. Crompton, Shaw the Dramatist, Lincoln, Nebr., 1969;
- L. Crompton, Shaw the Dramatist, Lincoln, Nebr., 1969;
- J. A. Mills, Language and Laughter: Comic Diction in the Plays of George Bernard Shaw, Tucson, 1969;
- B. F. Dukore, Bernard Shaw, Director, Seattle, 1970;
- R. Zimbardo, ed., Twentieth Century Interpretations of Major Barbara, New York, 1970;
- B. F. Dukore, Bernard Shaw, Director, London, 1971.