A Selective, Classified International Bibliography

of Publications About Bernard Shaw

Works from 1940 to Date, with Appendix of Earlier Works

Charles A. Carpenter

November 7, 2007

Charles A. Carpenter, Professor Emeritus of English at Binghamton University, has specialized in modern dramatic literature for forty years. He is best known for his massive two-volume work, Modern Drama Scholarship and Criticism, 1966-1990: An International Bibliography. Currently he is producing a series of “downloadable bibliographies” on modern dramatists (see NOTE below).

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Table of Contents

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Introduction (Explains scope and proper use)

Essential Volumes of Writings by Shaw

PART ONE: TOPICS OTHER THAN SPECIFIC PLAYS

Analyzed Collections of Essays

(For entries that include “pages [x-xx] in [boldface name]”

Bibliographic and Reference Works

Drama and Theatre

Shaw as Dramatist

Shaw as Drama Critic and Theorist

Shaw and Theatre, Including Radio

Shaw’s Screenplays

Biography, Biographers, and Career Summaries

Shaw and Other Dramatists

Shaw and Shakespeare

Shaw and Ibsen

Shaw and Wilde

Shaw and Granville Barker

Shaw and O’Casey

Shaw and Brecht

Shaw and Other Playwrights

Shaw’s Fiction

Shaw’s Beliefs and Theories

Religion / Philosophy

Shaw and Nietzsche

The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God

Shaw and Women

Shaw and Music

Shaw and Sociology / Economics / Politics

Sociological Theory, Social Reform, and Education

Economic Theory, Marx, and the Fabian Society

Political Theory, Government, and War

Shaw and Other Countries

Shaw and Ireland

Shaw and North America

Shaw and Germanic Countries

Shaw and France, Italy, and Hispanic Countries

Shaw and Eastern European Countries

Shaw and Africa, Asia, and Australasia

Miscellaneous

Introductory, Popular, and Laudatory Works

PART TWO: WORKS ABOUT SPECIFIC PLAYS (click here to see all plays on one page, but this page may take a while to download if your computer is underpowered or does not have a DSL or cable connection)

The Admirable Bashville

Androcles and the Lion

Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress

The Apple Cart

Arms and the Man

Augustus Does His Bit

Back to Methuselah

Buoyant Billions

Caesar and Cleopatra

Candida

Captain Brassbound’s Conversion

The Cassone

Cymbeline Refinished

The Dark Lady of the Sonnets

The Devil’s Disciple

The Doctor’s Dilemma

Geneva

How He Lied to Her Husband

‘In Good King Charles’s Golden Days’

The Inca of Perusalem

The Interlude at the Playhouse

Jitta’s Atonement

John Bull’s Other Island

The King, the Constitution and the Lady

Mrs Warren’s Profession

O’Flaherty, V. C.

On the Rocks

Overruled

Passion Play (or Household of Joseph)

Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction

The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet

The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles

The Six of Calais

Too True to be Good

APPENDIX: EARLIEST SECONDARY WORKS THROUGH 1939

Bibliographic and Reference Works

Biographical and Critical Works

Works About Specific Plays

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NOTE: This work is one of a series of “downloadable bibliographies” on modern dramatists compiled by Charles A. Carpenter. It can be obtained as an email attachment in MS Word or WordPerfect format by emailing Professor Carpenter at ccarpen@binghamton.edu. Having this all in one file makes it more “searchable.” Bibliographies are also available on Oscar Wilde, Harley Granville Barker, William Butler Yeats, John Millington Synge, Sean O’Casey, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Arthur Miller, and Eugene O’Neill (also available at: http://www.eoneill.com/library/playbyplay/carpenter.htm.)