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CHRONOLOGY
OF SHAW'S WORKS
The
following chronology has been provided by Michel Pharand
First date: year(s) written
Second date: year of first performance
Third date: year(s) of publication [in brackets]
1878 My Dear Dorothea: A Practical System of Moral Education for Females Embodied in a
Letter to a Young Person of that Sex (ed. S. Winsten) [1956]
1878 Passion Play (fragment) [1971]
1879 Immaturity (novel) [1930]
1880 The Irrational Knot (novel) [ser. 1885-7; 1905]
1881 Love Among the Artists (novel) [ser. 1887-8; 1900]
1882 Cashel Byron's Profession (novel) [ser. 1885-6; rev 1889, 1901]
1883 An Unsocial Socialist (novel) [ser. 1884; 1887]
1884 Un Petit Drame (playlet) [1959]
1884/92 Widowers' Houses 1893 [rev. 1898]
1888 An Unfinished Novel (novel) [1958]
1889 Fabian Essays on Socialism (ed. Shaw) [rev. 1908, 1931, 1948]
1890 Ibsen Lecture before the Fabian Society [1970]
1891 The Quintessence of Ibsenism (criticism) [1891; rev. 1913]
1893 The Philanderer 1905 [1898]
1893 Mrs Warren's Profession 1902 [1898; rev. 1930]
1893-94 Arms and The Man 1894 [1898; rev. 1930]
1894 Candida 1897 [1898; rev. 1930]
1895 The Man of Destiny 1897 [1898; rev. 1930]
1895 The Sanity of Art (art criticism) [rev. 1908]
1895-96 You Never Can Tell 1899 [1898; rev. 1930]
1896 The Devil's Disciple 1897 [1901; rev. 1904]
1898 The Perfect Wagnerite (music criticism) [1898; rev. 1907]
1898 Caesar and Cleopatra 1901 [1901; rev. 1930]
1899 Captain Brassbound's Conversion 1900 [1901]
1900 Fabianism and The Empire: A Manifesto (ed. Shaw) [1900]
1901 The Admirable Bashville 1902 [1901]
1901 Man and Superman 1905 [1903; rev. 1930]
1904 John Bull's Other Island 1904 [1907; rev. 1930]
1904 How He Lied to Her Husband 1904 [1907]
1904 The Common Sense of Municipal Trading [rev. 1908]
1905 Major Barbara 1905 [1907; rev. 1930, 1945]
1905 Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction 1905 [1905]
[1906] Dramatic Opinions and Essays (theatre criticism) [Saturday Review 1895-98]
1906 The Doctor's Dilemma 1906 [1911]
1907 The Interlude at the Playhouse (playlet) 1907 [1927]
1907-08 Getting Married 1908 [1911]
1909 The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet 1909 [1911; rev. 1930]
1909 Press Cuttings 1909 [1909]
1878 My Dear Dorothea: A Practical System of Moral Education for Females Embodied in a
Letter to a Young Person of that Sex (ed. S. Winsten) [1956]
1878 Passion Play (fragment) [1971]
1879 Immaturity (novel) [1930]
1880 The Irrational Knot (novel) [ser. 1885-7; 1905]
1881 Love Among the Artists (novel) [ser. 1887-8; 1900]
1882 Cashel Byron's Profession (novel) [ser. 1885-6; rev 1889, 1901]
1883 An Unsocial Socialist (novel) [ser. 1884; 1887]
1884 Un Petit Drame (playlet) [1959]
1884/92 Widowers' Houses 1893 [rev. 1898]
1888 An Unfinished Novel (novel) [1958]
1889 Fabian Essays on Socialism (ed. Shaw) [rev. 1908, 1931, 1948]
1890 Ibsen Lecture before the Fabian Society [1970]
1891 The Quintessence of Ibsenism (criticism) [1891; rev. 1913]
1893 The Philanderer 1905 [1898]
1893 Mrs Warren's Profession 1902 [1898; rev. 1930]
1893-94 Arms and The Man 1894 [1898; rev. 1930]
1894 Candida 1897 [1898; rev. 1930]
1895 The Man of Destiny 1897 [1898; rev. 1930]
1895 The Sanity of Art (art criticism) [rev. 1908]
1895-96 You Never Can Tell 1899 [1898; rev. 1930]
1896 The Devil's Disciple 1897 [1901; rev. 1904]
1898 The Perfect Wagnerite (music criticism) [1898; rev. 1907]
1898 Caesar and Cleopatra 1901 [1901; rev. 1930]
1899 Captain Brassbound's Conversion 1900 [1901]
1900 Fabianism and The Empire: A Manifesto (ed. Shaw) [1900]
1901 The Admirable Bashville 1902 [1901]
1901 Man and Superman 1905 [1903; rev. 1930]
1904 John Bull's Other Island 1904 [1907; rev. 1930]
1904 How He Lied to Her Husband 1904 [1907]
1904 The Common Sense of Municipal Trading [rev. 1908]
1905 Major Barbara 1905 [1907; rev. 1930, 1945]
1905 Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction 1905 [1905]
[1906] Dramatic Opinions and Essays (theatre criticism) [Saturday Review 1895-98]
1906 The Doctor's Dilemma 1906 [1911]
1907 The Interlude at the Playhouse (playlet) 1907 [1927]
1907-08 Getting Married 1908 [1911]
1909 The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet 1909 [1911; rev. 1930]
1909 Press Cuttings 1909 [1909]
1909 The Fascinating Foundling 1928 [1926]
1909 The Glimpse of Reality 1927 [1926]
1909 Misalliance 1910 [1914; rev. 1930]
1910 Brieux: A Preface (criticism) [1910]
1910 The Dark Lady of the Sonnets 1910 [1914]
1910-11 Fanny's First Play 1911 [1914]
1912 Androcles and the Lion 1913 [1916]
1912 Overruled 1912 [1916]
1912 Pygmalion 1913 [1916; rev. 1941]
1913 Beauty's Duty (playlet) [1932]
1913 Great Catherine 1913 [1919]
1913 The Music Cure 1914 [1926]
1914 Common Sense About The War [1914] (political commentary)
1915 O'Flaherty, V.C. 1917 [1919]
1915 The Inca of Perusalem 1916 [1919]
1916 Augustus Does His Bit 1917 [1919]
1917 Doctors' Delusions; Crude Criminology; Sham Education [1931] (social commentary)
1917 Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress 1918 [1919]
1917 How To Settle The Irish Question [1917] (political commentary)
1917 What I Really Wrote About The War [1931] (political commentary)
1916-17 Heartbreak House 1920 [1919]
1918-20 Back to Methuselah 1922 [1921; rev. 1930, 1945]
1919 Peace Conference Hints [1919] (political commentary)
1920-21 Jitta's Atonement (from the German) 1923 [1926]
1921 Ruskin's Politics [1921]
1923 Saint Joan 1923 [1924]
1928 The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Soc and Cap [1928; rev. 1937] (pol. com.)
1928 The Apple Cart 1929 [1930]
1929 The
[1931] Ellen Terry and Shaw: A Correspondence [1931]
1931 Too True to Be Good 1932 [1934]
1931 How These Doctors Love One Another (playlet) [1962]
1931 Pen Portraits and Reviews (criticism) [1931]
1931/34 The Millionairess 1936 [1936]
[1931] Complete Plays [1931; rev 34, 38, 50, 52, 65]
[1932] Our Theatres in the Nineties (theatre criticism) [Saturday Review 1895-98]
1932 The Adventures of the Black Girl In Her Search for God [1933] (short story)
1932 Essays in Fabian Socialism [1932] (political commentary)
1933 The Future of Political Science in
1933 Village Wooing 1934 [1934]
1933 On The Rocks 1933 [1934]
1934 The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles 1935 [1936]
1934 The Six of
1934 Short Stories, Scraps, and Shavings (stories & playlets) [1934]
1936 Arthur and the Acetone (playlet) [1962]
1936 Cymbeline Refinished 1937 [1946]
1936
1936/47 Buoyant Billions 1948 [1949]
[1937] Music In London (music criticism) [Star 1888-89; World 90-94]
1938-39 "In Good King Charles's Golden Days" 1939 [1939; rev. 1947]
1939 Shaw Gives Himself Away: An Autobiographical Miscellany
1944 Everybody's Political What's What [1944] (political commentary)
1948 Farfetched Fables 1950 [1950]
1939 Sixteen Self Sketches (rev of Shaw Gives Himself Away) [1949]
1949 Shakes Versus Shav (puppet play) 1949 [1950]
1950 Why She Would Not 1957 [1960]
1950 Rhyming Picture Guide to Ayot Saint Lawrence [1950]
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REVIEWS & CRITICISM
1885 - 88: book reviews in The Pall Mall Gazette
1886 - 89: art criticism in The World
1888 - 89: music criticism in The Star
1890 - 94: music criticism in The World
1895 - 98: theatre criticism in The Saturday Review
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COLLECTIONS & POSTHUMOUS EDITIONS
[1927] Letters from GBS to Miss Alma Murray (Mrs Alfred Forman) (
[1931] Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw: A Correspondence (ed. Christopher St. John)
[1932] More Letters from GBS to Miss A Murray (Mrs Alfred Forman) (
[1941]
[1949] To a Young Actress: Letters of Shaw to Molly Tompkins, 1921-1949 (ed. Peter Tompkins)
[1949] Shaw on Vivisection (ed. G.H. Bowker)
[1949] The Quintessence of G.B.S. (ed. Stephen Winsten)
[1952] Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell: Their Correspondence (ed. Alan Dent)
[1955] Advice to a Young Critic and Other Letters (ed. E.J. West)
[1955] Shaw on Music (ed. Eric Bentley)
[1957] Bernard Shaw's Letters to Granville Barker (ed. C.B. Purdom)
[1958] Shaw on Theatre (ed. E.J. West)
[1960] How To Become a Musical Critic (ed. Dan H. Laurence)
[1961] Shaw on Shakespeare (ed. Edwin Wilson)
[1961] Platform and Pulpit (ed. Dan H. Laurence)
[1962] The Matter with
[1963] The Religious Speeches of Bernard Shaw (ed. Warren Sylvester Smith)
[1963] George Bernard Shaw on Language (ed. Abraham Tauber)
[1964] The
Rationalization of
[1965] Bernard Shaw: Selections of His Wit and Wisdom (comp. Caroline Thomas Harnsberger)
[1965] Selected Non-Dramatic Writings of Bernard Shaw (ed. Dan H. Laurence)
[1965] Bernard Shaw's Ready-Reckoner: A Guide to Civilization (ed. N.H. Leigh-Taylor)
[1965-88] Bernard Shaw: Collected Letters (ed. Dan H. Laurence) 4 vols.
[1967] Shaw on Religion (ed. Warren Sylvester Smith)
[1969-70] Shaw, An Autobiography (ed. Stanley Weintraub) 2 vols.
[1970-74] Bodley Head Shaw: Collected Plays with Their Prefaces (ed. Dan H. Laurence) 7 vols.
[1971] The Road to Equality: Ten Unpublished Lectures & Essays, 1884-1918 (ed. L. Crompton)
[1972] Non-Dramatic Literary Criticism (ed.
[1974] An Unsocial Socialist: A Novel (ed. by R. F. Dietrich)
[1976] Bernard Shaw, Practical Politics (ed. Lloyd J. Hubenka)
[1978] The Great
Composers: Reviews & Bombardments by Bernard Shaw (ed. L
[1979] Shaw and Ibsen: 'Quintessence' and Related Writings (ed. J.L. Wisenthal)
[1981] Shaw's Music: The Complete Musical Criticism (ed. Dan H. Laurence) 3 vols.
[1982] Bernard Shaw and Alfred Douglas: A Correspondence (ed. Mary Hyde)
[1982] Playwright and Pirate, Shaw and Frank
Harris Letters (ed.
[1985] Shaw on Dickens (ed. Dan H. Laurence and Martin Quinn)
[1985] Bernard Shaw: Agitations, Letters to the Press, 1875-1950 (Dan H. Laurence & J Rambeau)
[1986] Bernard Shaw, The Diaries, 1885-1897 (ed. Stanley Weintraub) 2 vols.
[1986] Bernard Shaw's Letters to Siegfried Trebitsch (ed. Samuel A. Weiss)
[1989] Bernard Shaw on the
[1989] Bernard Shaw on Photography: Essays and Photographs (ed. Bill Jay & Margaret Moore)
[1991] Bernard Shaw's Book Reviews, Originally Published in the PMG (ed. Brian Tyson)
[1992] Letters from Margaret: Corres bet GBS and M Wheeler, 1944-1950 (ed. Rebecca Swift)
[1992] Shaw on Women (ed. Mary Chenoweth Stratton)
[1993] The Drama Observed (ed. Bernard F. Dukore) 4 vols.
[1993] Shaw, Lady Gregory and The Abbey: A Corr. and a Record (ed. D.L. & Nicholas Grene)
[1993] The Complete Prefaces: 1889-1913 (ed. Dan H. Laurence & Daniel J. Leary)
[1993] The Sayings of Bernard Shaw (ed. Joseph Spence)
[1994] The Proverbial
Bernard Shaw: An Index to Proverbs... (comp. G.B.
Bryan &
[1995] Shaw on Music (ed. Eric Bentley) [reissue of 1955 Anchor Books edition]
[1995] Selected Corr. of Bernard Shaw: Bernard Shaw and H.G. Wells (ed. J. Percy Smith)
[1995] The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929 (ed. Dan H. Laurence & Daniel J. Leary)
[1996] Not Bloody Likely! And Other Quotations From Bernard Shaw (ed. Bernard F. Dukore)
[1996] Bernard Shaw: Theatrics (ed. Dan H. Laurence)
[1996] Unpublished Shaw (SHAW 16, ed. Dan H. Laurence & Margot Peters)
[1996] Bernard Shaw's Book Reviews, Volume 2: 1884-1950 (ed. Brian Tyson)
[1997] Bernard Shaw on Cinema (ed. Bernard F. Dukore)
[1997] Selected Corr. of Bernard Shaw: Bernard Shaw and Gabriel Pascal (ed. Bernard F. Dukore)
[1997] The Complete Prefaces: 1830-1950 (ed. Dan H. Laurence & Daniel J. Leary) 3 vols.
[1998] Shaw on Theatre: A Half Century of Advices (ed. Mary Chenoweth Stratton)
[1998] George Bernard Shaw et Augustin Hamon: Les premiers temps d’une correspondance (1893-
1913) (ed. Patrick Galliou) 4 vols. [Shaw / Hamon letters; 4 more vols. in preparation]
[2001] The Matter with
[2000] T.E.
and Nicole Wilson) vol. 1 [3 more vols. in preparation]
[2002] Selected Corr. of B Shaw: Bernard Shaw and Barry Jackson (ed. L.W. Conolly)
[2002] Selected Corr. of B Shaw: Bernard Shaw and the Webbs (ed. Alex C. Michalos & Deborah C. Poff)
[200 ] Selected Corr. of B Shaw: Bernard Shaw and Lady Astor (ed. J. P. Wearing)
[200 ] Selected Corr. of B Shaw: Bernard Shaw and Musicians (ed. Alan Andrews)
[200 ] Selected Corr. of B Shaw: Bernard Shaw and William Archer (ed. Tom Postlewait)
[200 ] Selected Corr. of B Shaw: Bernard Shaw and Gilbert Murray (ed. )
[200 ] Selected Corr. of B Shaw: Bernard Shaw and G. K. Chesterton (ed. )
[2006] Selected Corr. of B Shaw: Bernard Shaw and the Publishers (ed. Michel W. Pharand)