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DRAMA AND THEATRE
Shaw as Drama Critic and Theorist
Shaw and Theatre, Including Radio
Abbott,
Anthony S. The vital lie: reality and illusion in modern drama.
Adams,
Elsie B. Bernard Shaw and the aesthetes.
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‘Heartless, heartbroken, and heartfelt: a recurrent theme in the plays of
Bernard Shaw.’ English Literature in Transition 25 1982 4-9
Adler,
Henry. ‘The artist philosopher.’ Adam International Review 255-56 1956
17-23
Albert,
Sidney P. ‘Bernard Shaw: the artist as philosopher.’ Journal of
Aesthetics and Art Criticism 14 1956 419-38 (‘the philosophy in his art,
and the art in his philosophy’)
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‘G.B.S. in
Almási,
Miklós. A drámafejlÅdés útjai:
egy máfaj
története GoethétÅl O’Neillig.
Alt, Eduard
O. ‘Die “dramatische Schule” Shaws: evolutionäre Erziehung durch lebensnahe
Kunst.’ Pp 76-87 in Otten
Amalric,
Jean C. ‘Bernard Shaw dramaturge.’ Pp 15-32 in Brennan
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Shaw: du réformateur au prophète édouardien.
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in Bernard Shaw.
‘Shaw et la morale victorienne: le devoir
d’immoralisme.’ Pp 81-89 in Actes du colloque, Confluents, I. Lyon:
Société Française d’Études Victoriennes et Édouardiennes, 1980, translated on
pp 127-37 as ‘Shaw and Victorian morals: the duty of immorality’
‘Du réaliste au surhomme: les
métamorphoses du héros shavien.’ Cahiers Victoriens & Édouardiennes
23 1986 59-69, translated on pp 139-53 as ‘From the realist to the superman:
the metamorphoses of the Shavian hero’
Andrecht,
Ernst H. Sprachsoziologische Aspekte in der dramatischen Sprachgestaltung
Bernard Shaws.
Angel-Perez,
Élizabeth. ‘George Bernard Shaw: pour une révolution théâtrale.’ Cahiers de
la Comédie Française 34 Winter 1999-2000 63-72
Auden, W.
H. ‘The Fabian Figaro.’ Commonweal 37 Oct 23 1942 12-13; repr. on pp
153-57 in Kronenberger
Bailey, J.
O. ‘Shaw’s Life Force and science fiction.’ Shaw Review 16 1973 48-58
Balthasar,
Hans U. von. Theodramatik, I: Prolegomena. Einsiedeln: Johannes, 1973,
216-26: ‘[Maschere nude:] George Bernard Shaw’
Ba»utowa, Bronis»awa. Dramat
Bernarda Shaw.
Barnes, T.
R. ‘Shaw and the
Barnet,
Sylvan. ‘Bernard Shaw on tragedy.’ PMLA 71 1956 888-99
Barr, Alan
P. Victorian stage pulpiteer: Bernard Shaw’s crusade.
Barrett,
Daniel. ‘Play publication, readers, and the “decline” of Victorian drama.’ Book
History 2 1999 173-87
Barth,
Adolf. Moderne englische Gesellschaftskomödie, von Oscar Wilde zu Tom
Stoppard: eine Einführung.
Barzun,
Jacques. ‘The artist as prophet and jester.’ American Scholar 69 2000
15-33
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energies of art: studies of authors classic and modern. NY: Harper, 1956,
245-80: ‘From Shaw to Rousseau’
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‘Eros, Priapos, and Shaw.’ Pp 67-88 in Michael Bertin, ed. The play and its
critic: essays for Eric Bentley.
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‘G.B.S. in twilight.’ Kenyon Review 5 1943 321-45; repr. on pp 159-77 in
Kronenberger
Beckson,
Karl.
Bellingeri,
Bennett,
Benjamin. All theater is revolutionary theater.
Bentley,
Eric. Bernard Shaw: a reconsideration. 2nd ed. NY: Norton, 1976. 255 pp;
incorporates ‘Bernard Shaw’s politics (a birthday tribute).’ Kenyon Review 8
1946 347-71 (landmark study first publ. in 1947)
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‘Eric Bentley on Bernard Shaw: an interview [with Sally Peters].’ Independent
Shavian 42 2004 3-10 (after being ‘married to Shaw’ for 70 years)
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making of a dramatist (1892-1903).’ Tulane Drama Review 5 i 1960 3-21;
repr. on pp 3-21 in his Theatre of war: comments on 32 occasions. NY:
Viking Pr., 1960; on pp 282-303 of Robert W. Corrigan, ed. Theatre in the
twentieth century. NY: Grove Pr., 1963; on pp 290-313 of Travis Bogard
& William I. Oliver, eds. Modern drama: essays in criticism. NY:
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playwright as thinker: a study of drama in modern times. Amended ed.
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‘Shaw 40 years later: Eric Bentley speaks his mind on eleven neglected plays: Getting
Married, Overruled, On the Rocks, and others.’ SHAW 7
1987 7-29 (interview with Alfred Turco)
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theory and practice of Shavian drama.’ Accent 5 1944 5-18
Bergquist,
Gordon N. The pen and the sword: war and peace in the plays of Bernard Shaw.
Berst,
Charles A. ‘The action of Shaw’s settings and props.’ SHAW 3 1983 41-65
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Shaw and the art of drama.
-----. ‘New
theatres for old.’ Pp 55-75 in Innes (his attack on the status quo in
the nineties)
Bertolini,
John A. The playwrighting self of Bernard Shaw.
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‘Shaw on
Bhatt, A.
K. ‘Bernard Shaw: the iconoclast and the eikon.’ Independent Shavian
36 1998 67-69
Bielecka,
Malgorzata. G. B. Shaw’s unconventional hero in Three Plays for Puritans.
Bitonti,
Tracy S. ‘Shaw’s offstage characters.’ SHAW 12 1992 229-40
Bloom,
Harold, ed. George Bernard Shaw: modern critical views. NY:
Bocanegra,
A. R. ‘Enumeración y catalogación en G. B. Shaw.’ Epos: Revista de Filología
3 1987 45-62
Bodelsen,
C. A. ‘Bernard Shaw.’ Pp 9-28 in Sven M. Kristensen, ed. Fremmede digtere i
det 20 århundrede, I. Copenhagen: Gad, 1967
Borinski,
Ludwig. ‘Shaw und die Stilexperimente des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts.’ Neueren
Sprachen 8 1956 361-71
Bowman,
David H. ‘Bernard Shaw discovers melodrama.’ Interpretations 7 1975
30-37 (on the early plays)
Boxill,
Roger. Shaw and the doctors. NY: Basic Books, 1969, 97-143: ‘The plays’
Brashear,
William R. The gorgon’s head: a study in tragedy and despair.
Broderson,
G. L. ‘Parody and farce in the early Shaw.’
Brown,
Barbara B. ‘Bernard Shaw’s “unreasonable man.”’ Modern Drama 26 1983
75-84
Brown, G.
E. George Bernard Shaw. NY: Arco, 1971. 160 pp
Brustein,
Robert. The theatre of revolt.
Burlin,
Robert. ‘Shaw, women, and opera: determining the voice.’ Cahiers Victoriens
& Édouardiennes 45 1997 73-81
Cargill,
Oscar. Intellectual
Carlotti,
Edoardo G. La scena e i suoi specchi: aspetti della cultura teatrale
britannica tra Ottocento e Novecento.
Carpenter,
Charles A. Bernard Shaw & the art of destroying ideals: the early plays.
Carré,
Jacques. ‘La redécouverte de la pauvreté à Londres à la fin du XIXe siècle.’
Pp 49-61 in Brennan (background for first plays)
Cavallini,
Graziano. Ibsen, Shaw, Pirandello: analisi della funzione socio-pedagogica
Cecchi,
Emilio. Scritori inglesi e americani.
Chew,
Samuel C. ‘The nineteenth century and after (1789-1939).’ In Albert C. Baugh,
ed. A literary history of England. NY: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1948,
1520-25
Cheyette,
Bryan. Constructions of ‘The Jew’ in English literature and society: racial
representations, 1875-1945.
Chothia,
Jean. English drama of the early modern period, 1890-1940.
Clarke,
Ian. Edwardian Drama.
Codignola,
Luciano. Due momenti della crisi del naturalismo teatrale: J. A. Strindberg,
G. B. Shaw. Urbino: Libreria Moderna Universitaria, 1971, 93-152
(simplistic)
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politico
Conrad,
Peter. The history of English literature: one indivisible, unending book.
Coskren,
Robert. ‘Siegfried elements in the plays of Bernard Shaw.’ SHAW 2
1982 27-46
Cox,
Robert. ‘John the Baptist: a Shavian role model.’ Independent Shavian 24
1986 15-18 (for Marchbanks, Caesar, and Joan)
Crompton,
Louis. Shaw the dramatist.
Crum, Jane
A. ‘“I must get out of this into the air”: transfiguration and ascent in three
plays by Bernard Shaw.’ Pp 5-13 in Bert Cardullo, ed. Before his eyes:
essays in honor of
D’Agostino,
Nemi. ‘Ritratti critici di contemporanei: Bernard Shaw.’ Belfagor 7 1952
188-204
Daiches,
David. A critical history of English literature, II. NY: Ronald Pr.,
1960, 1104-08
Davis,
Jill. ‘The New Woman and the new life.’ Pp 17-36 in Viv Gardner and Susan
Rutherford, eds. The New Woman and her sisters: feminism and theatre
1850-1914.
Davis,
Montgomery. ‘Shaw’s theater in our nineties: back to the future?’ SHAW
14 1994 255-61
Davis,
Tracy C. George Bernard Shaw and the socialist theatre.
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‘Shaw’s interstices of empire: decolonizing at home and abroad.’ Pp 218-39 in Innes
(plays that embody critiques of colonialism)
Dawick,
John D. ‘Stagecraft and structure in Shaw’s disquisitory plays.’ Modern
Drama 14 1971 276-87
Denninghaus,
Friedhelm. Die dramatische Konzeption George Bernard Shaws: Untersuchungen
zur Struktur der Bühnengesellschaft und zum Aufbau der Figuren in den Stücken
Shaws.
De
Selincourt, Aubrey. Six great playwrights.
Dickson,
Ronald J. ‘The diabolonian character in Shaw’s plays.’
Di Claudio,
Giuseppe, ed. Note sul teatro di G. B. Shaw: parte prima (generalitá).
Organismo rappresentativo universitario urbinate . . . 1966-67.
Dietrich,
Margaret. Das moderne Drama: Strömungen, Gestalten, Motive.
Dietrich,
Richard F. British drama 1890 to 1950: a critical history.
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‘Deconstruction as devil’s advocacy: a Shavian alternative.’ Modern Drama
29 1986 431-51; repr. on pp 177-96 in
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‘Shavian psychology.’ SHAW 4 1984 149-71
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‘Shaw and the passionate mind.’ Shaw Review 4 ii 1961 2-11
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‘Shaw and the uncrucifying of Christ.’ SHAW 8 1988 13-38 (from Passion
Play on)
Donahue,
Francis. ‘George Bernard Shaw y la comedia de ideas.’ Cuadernos Americanos
40 1980 70-78
Downer,
Alan S. The British drama: a handbook and brief chronicle. NY:
Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1950, 301-11
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‘Introduction.’ Pp 1-19 in Downer, ed. The theatre of Bernard Shaw,
Drechsler,
Ute. Die ‘absurde Farce’ bei Beckett, Pinter und Ionesco: Vor- und Überleben
einer Gattung. Tübingen: Narr, 1988, 76-86: ‘Bernard Shaws Farcen: Respektlosigkeit
und Vision des Nichts’
Driver, Tom
F. Romantic quest and modern query: a history of the modern theatre. NY:
Delacorte, 1970, 249-82
Duerksen,
Roland A. Shelleyan ideas in Victorian literature.
Dukore,
Bernard F. Bernard Shaw, playwright: aspects of Shavian drama.
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‘Bernard Shaw’s dramatic dialectic.’ World & I 4 1989 547-59
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‘G.B.S. and S.E.X.: sexuality and sexual equality.’ Essays in Theatre 6
1988 81-94
-----. Money
& politics in Ibsen, Shaw, and Brecht.
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‘Shaw’s “big three.”’ SHAW 4 1984 33-67 (Man and Superman, John
Bull’s Other Island, and Major Barbara as a kind of trilogy)
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Shaw’s theater.
Dunkel,
Wilbur D. ‘The essence of Bernard Shaw’s dramaturgy.’ College English 10
1949 307-12
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‘George Bernard Shaw.’ Sewanee Review 50 1942 255-62
Egri,
Péter. ‘A Shaw-drámák intellektuális szatírájának kibontakozása. . . .’ Filológiai
Közlöny 14 1968 124-37; 17 1971 51-70
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drámai irányok az európai századfordulón (1871-1917).
Elsom,
John. Erotic theatre. NY: Taplinger, 1974, 72-77, 117-21 and see index
Esslin,
Martin. ‘Text and subtext in Shavian drama.’ SHAW 14 1994 199-207
Evans,
Gareth L. The language of modern drama.
Evans, Ifor.
A short history of English drama. 2nd ed.
Evans, T.
F. ‘Introduction: The political Shaw.’ SHAW 11 1991 1-19 (useful
framework of ideas for a special issue of SHAW)
-----. ‘The
later Shaw.’ Pp 240-58 in Innes
-----, ed. Shaw:
the critical heritage.
Fatur,
Bogomil. ‘Komediograf G. B. Shaw (kriti…na
študija).’
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dela; ideje; od Shakespeara do Shawa.
Fechter,
Paul. Das europäische Drama: Geist und Kultur in Spiegel des Theaters, II:
Vom Naturalismus zum Expressionismus.
Fergusson,
Francis. The idea of a theater. Princeton:
Fiske,
Franklyn,
Julian. The Cockney: a survey of
Freedley,
George, in Barrett H. Clark & Freedley. History of modern drama. NY:
Freedman,
Morris. The moral impulse: modern drama from Ibsen to the present.
Fricker,
Robert. Das historische Drama in England von der Romantik bis zur Gegenwart.
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moderne englische Drama. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1964, 11-24
Fuller,
Edmund. George Bernard Shaw: critic of western morale. NY: Scribner,
1950. 123 pp
Gahan,
Peter. ’The achievement of Shaw’s later plays, 1920-1939.’ SHAW 23 2003
27-35
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shadows: rereading the texts of Bernard Shaw.
Gainor, J.
Ellen. ‘Bernard Shaw and the drama of imperialism.’ Pp 56-74 in Sue-Ellen Case
& Janelle Reinelt, eds. The performance of power: theatrical discourse
and politics.
-----. Shaw’s
daughters: dramatic and narrative constructions of gender.
Gallo, Blas
R. El importante G.B.S.: ensayo crítico sobre la vida y obra de George
Bernard Shaw.
Ganz,
Arthur. George Bernard Shaw.
-----. ‘The
playwright as perfect Wagnerite: motifs from the music dramas in the theatre of
Bernard Shaw.’ Comparative Drama 13 1979 187-209
-----. Realms
of the self: variations on a theme in modern drama. NY: NY UP, 1980, 57-85:
‘Bernard Shaw: the ascent to heaven’
Gassner, John.
Dramatic soundings: evaluations and retractions culled from 30 years of
dramatic criticism. NY: Crown, 1968, 76-86: ‘Shaw on Shakespeare’; 87-105:
‘Shaw on Ibsen and the drama of ideas’ (from Gassner, ed. Ideas in the drama.
NY:
-----. Masters
of the drama. 3rd rev. ed. NY:
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theatre in our times: a survey of the men, materials and movements in the
modern theatre. NY: Crown, 1954, 123-69, 270-76, 543-48 and see index
Gatch,
Katherine H. ‘The last plays of Bernard Shaw: dialectic and despair.’ Pp 126-47
in W. K. Wimsatt, ed. English stage comedy. NY:
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‘“The real sorrow of great men”: Mr. Bernard Shaw’s sense of tragedy.’ College
English 8 1947 230-40
Gibbs, A.
M. The art and mind of Shaw: essays in criticism. NY:
-----.
‘Bernard Shaw’s politics.’ Pp 95-104 in Heinz Kosok, ed. Studies in
Anglo-Irish literature.
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Shaw.
Glicksberg,
Charles. Literature and society.
-----. ‘The
modern playwright and the absolute: the decline of tragedy.’ Queen’s
Quarterly 65 1958 459-71
-----. The
sexual revolution in modern English literature.
Goldman,
Michael. ‘Shaw and the marriage in Dionysus.’ Pp 97-111 in Michael Bertin, ed. The
play and its critic: essays for Eric Bentley.
Gordon,
David J. Bernard Shaw and the comic sublime. NY:
-----. Literary
art and the unconscious.
-----. ‘Literature
and repression: the case of Shavian drama.’ Pp 181-203 in Joseph H. Smith, ed. The
literary Freud.
Govindan,
C. C. Essays on George Bernard Shaw: a study of some aspects of Shavian
drama. Ottapalam:
Green,
Martin. ‘British comedy and the British sense of humor: Shaw, Waugh, and Amis.’
Greiner,
Norbert. Idealism und Realism im Frühwerk George Bernard Shaws: die
Bedeutung und Funktion der Begriffe in den politischen, ästhetischen und
dramatischen Schriften.
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‘Shaw’s aesthetics and socialist realism.’ Shaw Review 22 1979 33-45
-----.
‘Shaws fabianische Ideologiekritik und ihre dramaturgischen Folgen.’ Pp 229-49
in Otten
Grene,
Nicholas. Bernard Shaw: a critical view.
-----. ‘The
Edwardian Shaw, or the modernist that never was.’ Pp 135-47 in Maria DiBattista
& Lucy McDiarmid, eds. High and low moderns: literature and culture,
1889-1939. NY:
Grimes,
Charles. ‘Bernard Shaw’s theory of political theater: difficulties from the
vantages of postmodern and modern types of the self.’ SHAW 22 2002
117-30
Grimm,
Reinhold. Echo and disguise: studies in German and comparative literature.
Guardia,
Alfredo de la. El teatro contemporáneo.
Guerrero
Haddad,
Rosalie R. ‘Bernard Shaw: past, present, and future.’ Independent Shavian
43 2005 9-16 (stresses Widowers’ Houses, Major Barbara, and Pygmalion)
-----. George
Bernard Shaw e a renovação do teatro inglês.
Helsztynski,
Stanis»aw.
‘Bernard Shaw: w setn Rocznic“ Urodzin 1856-1956.’ Kwartalnik
Neofilologiczny 4 1957 15-29
Henn, T. R.
The harvest of tragedy.
Hennecke,
Hans. Kritik: gesammelte Essays zur modernen Literatur. Gütersloh:
Bertelsmann, 1958, 235-42: ‘Ein witziger Puritaner: das Vermächtnis G. B.
Shaws’
Hérou,
Josette. ‘George Bernard Shaw, homme de théâtre et socialiste.’ Pp 33-39 in Brennan
Hirst,
David L. Tragicomedy.
Holberg,
Stanley M. The economic rogue in the plays of Bernard Shaw.
Holland,
Norman N. The I.
Houghton,
Norris. The exploding stage: an introduction to twentieth century drama.
NY: Weybright & Talley, 1971, 88-97 and see index
-----. Edwardian
Shaw: the writer and his age. NY:
-----. ‘In
search of Shaw: an interview with Dan Laurence.’ SHAW 15 1995 185-200
-----. ‘In
search of Shaw: an interview with Stanley Weintraub.’ SHAW 12 1992
97-110
Hulban,
Horia. ‘Logical and semantic paradoxes in G. B. Shaw’s drama.’ Analele ÔtiinÛifice ale Universit|tii . . . IaÕi 32 1986 67-73
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‘Stilul aforismelor lui G. B. Shaw.’ Analele ÔtiinÛifice ale Universit|tii . . . IaÕi 19 1973
81-89
Hummert,
Paul A. Bernard Shaw’s Marxian romance.
Ingle,
Stephen. Socialist thought in imaginative literature.
Innes,
Christopher. Modern British drama: the twentieth century.
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‘“Nothing but talk, talk, talk—Shaw talk”: discussion plays and the making of
modern drama.’ Pp 162-79 in Innes (stresses Getting Married and Misalliance)
Irvine,
William. The universe of
‘George Bernard Shaw and Karl Marx.’ Journal
of Economic History 6 1946 53-72
‘Shaw, the Fabians, and the Utilitarians.’ Journal
of the History of Ideas 8 1947 218-31
‘Shaw, war and peace, 1894-1919.’
Foreign Affairs 25 1947 314-27
‘Shaw and Chesterton.’ Virginia
Quarterly Review 23 1947 273-81
Isser,
Edward R. Stages of annihilation: theatrical representations of the
Holocaust.
Jalotte, S.
R. ‘The decline of Shaw’s literary reputation.’ Indian Journal of English
Studies 20 1980 71-78
Jenkins,
Anthony. The making of Victorian drama.
Joad, C. E.
M. Shaw.
Jones, A.
R. ‘George Bernard Shaw.’ Pp 57-75 in John R. Brown & Bernard Harris, eds. Contemporary
theatre.
Jones,
Howard M. ‘Shaw as a Victorian.’ Victorian Studies 1 1957 165-72
Jovanoviƒ, S. A. ‘Bernar So, odlomak iz
rada.’ Letopis Matice Srpske 3 1951 240-66
Kamer,
Hansruedi. Künstlerische und politische Extravaganz im Spätwerk Shaws.
Kauffmann,
Stanley. ‘George Bernard Shaw, twentieth-century Victorian.’ Performing Arts
Journal 29 1986 54-61
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‘Ibsen and Shaw: back to the future.’ Salmagundi 128-129 2000-2001
275-80
-----. ‘The
late beginner: Bernard Shaw becoming a dramatist.’ South Atlantic Quarterly 91
1992 289-301; repr. on pp 59-71 in Jody McAuliffe, ed. Plays, movies, and
critics.
-----. ‘A
paragraph by Shaw.’ Pp 89-95 in Michael Bertin, ed. The play and its critic:
essays for Eric Bentley.
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‘Stanley Kauffmann on the unknown Shaw: You Never Can Tell, Misalliance,
Androcles and the Lion, Too True to be Good.’ SHAW 7 1987
31-44 (interview with Jane A. Crum)
Kaufmann,
R. J. ‘Shaw’s elitist vision: a serial criticism of the plays of the first
decade.’ Komos 1 1967 97-104
Kaul, A. N.
The action of English comedy.
Kaye,
Julian B. Bernard Shaw and the nineteenth-century tradition.
Kennedy,
Andrew K. Six dramatists in search of a language: studies in dramatic
language.
Keough,
Lawrence C. ‘Horror and humour in Shaw.’ Shavian 3 iii 1965 9-13
-----. ‘The
theme of violence in Shaw.’ Shavian 3 vi 1966-67 12-17
Kester,
Dolores. ‘The legal climate of Shaw’s problem plays.’ Pp 68-83 in Weintraub,
R
Kettle,
Kindermann,
Heinz. Meister der Komödie von Aristophanes bis G. B. Shaw.
Kluge,
Walter. Der Stil der dramatischen Sprache in den Stücken George Bernard
Shaws.
Knight, G.
Wilson. The golden labyrinth: a study of British drama.
Kohl,
Norbert H. Bernard Shaws viktorianisches Erbe.
Komal,
Jagjit S. Shaw’s historical plays: a semio-stylistic study.
Kornbluth,
Martin L. ‘Shaw and Restoration comedy.’ Shaw Bulletin 2 iv 1958 9-17
Korzeniewski,
Bohdan. O wolnoу dla
pioruna ... w teatrze.
Krause,
David. Revisionary views: some counter statements about Irish life and
literature.
Kronenberger,
Louis. The republic of letters: essays on various writers. NY: Knopf,
1955, 167-77
-----. The
thread of laughter: chapters on English stage comedy from Jonson to Maugham.
NY: Knopf, 1952, 227-78
Krutch,
Joseph W. ‘Modernism’ in modern drama: a definition and an estimate.
Lamm,
Martin. Modern drama.
Larik, K.
M. ‘Bernard Shaw as a dramatist.’ Ariel (Dept. of English,
-----. ‘The
evolution of Shavian drama from the problem play: Plays Unpleasant
(1892-94).’ Ariel: A Research Journal of English Language and Literature (Jamshoro)
5 1979-80 96-121; ‘. . . Plays
Pleasant (1894-1896),’ 6 1980-81 1-21; ‘. . . Three Plays for Puritans,’
6 1980-81 94-105; ‘Existential element in G. B. Shaw’s plays,’ 7 1981-82 1-12
Laurence,
Dan H. The fifth gospel of Bernard Shaw.
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books, and libraries.
Lawrence,
Kenneth. ‘Bernard Shaw: the career of the Life Force.’ Modern Drama 15
1972 130-46 (Man and Superman, Back to Methuselah, and The
Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles as thesis dramas)
Leary,
Daniel J. ‘Shaw? Why not!’ Promethean 20 1972 80-89 (focus of a class
that was skeptical about treating Shaw; see next items)
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‘Shaw’s “Why not?”’ Independent Shavian 19 1981 55-62; ‘Why not another
“Why not?”’ Independent Shavian 20 1982 6-8; ‘Shaw and Shakespeare: why
not!’ Independent Shavian 23 1985 6-8
Lee,
Moon-Sook. ‘Shaw’s balances of forces.’ Journal of the English Language and
Lit, Chungchong (
Leech,
Clifford. ‘Shaw and Shakespeare.’ Pp 84-105 in Rosenblood 2 (the ‘dramas
of debate’ and the ‘dark comedies’)
Lenker,
Lagretta T. Fathers and daughters in Shakespeare and Shaw.
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‘Make war on war: a Shavian conundrum.’ Pp 165-85 in Sara M. Deats et al., eds.
War and words: horror and heroism in the literature of warfare.
Lennartz,
Franz. Ausländische Dichter und Schriftsteller unserer Zeit.
Levenston,
E. A. ‘Shaw’s stage directions.’ Pp 206-15 in Hanna Scolnicov & Peter
Holland, eds. Reading plays: interpretation and reception.
Levy, Benn
W. ‘Shaw the dramatist.’ Pp 263-79 in Joad (1951 lecture)
Lewis,
Allan. The contemporary theatre: the significant playwrights of our time.
NY: Crown, 1962, 80-111: ‘The drama of discussion—George Bernard Shaw’
(stresses Heartbreak House)
Lewton,
Paul. ‘George Bernard Shaw: theory, language, and drama in the nineties.’ Yearbook
of English Studies 9 1979 154-66
Lockhart,
J. H. K. ‘Shaw, Wilde, and the revival of the comedy of manners.’ Hermathena
106 1968 18-22
Lüdeke,
Henry. ‘Bernard Shaw und sein Werk.’ Universitas 13 1958 137-50
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‘Some remarks on Shaw’s history plays.’ English Studies 36 1955 239-46
Marker,
Frederick J. ‘Shaw’s early plays.’ Pp 103-23 in Innes (his first three
plays)
Masur,
Gerhard. Prophets of yesterday: studies in European culture 1890-1914.
NY: Macmillan, 1961, 274-86
Matthews,
John F. George Bernard Shaw. NY:
Maurer, A.
E. Wallace. ‘G. Bernard Shaw: losing or saving him.’ Review 10 1988
219-39 (essay-review of Laurence’s bibliography and Weintraub’s edition of
Shaw’s diaries)
May, Keith
M. Ibsen and Shaw.
Mayer,
David. ‘The case for Harlequin: a footnote on Shaw’s dramatic method.’ Modern
Drama 3 1960 60-74
Mayer,
Hans. Ansichten zur Literatur der Zeit. Reinbek: Rowohlt, 1962, 119-32:
‘Der Dramatiker Bernard Shaw’; repr. in Neue Deutsche Hefte 89 1962
91-110 and in his Weltliteratur: Studien und Versuche.
Mayne,
Fred. The wit and satire of Bernard Shaw. NY:
McDougall,
Kathleen. ‘Bernard Shaw and the economy of the male self.’ Pp 324-42 in Jay
Losey & William D. Brewer, eds. Mapping
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