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ESSENTIAL VOLUMES OF WRITINGS BY SHAW
[Standard
edition of the works of Bernard Shaw.]
The Bodley
Head Bernard Shaw: collected plays with their prefaces. Ed. Dan H. Laurence.
The complete
prefaces. Ed. Dan H.
Laurence & Daniel J. Leary.
Early texts:
play manuscripts in facsimile. General editor, Dan H. Laurence. NY:
Mrs Warren’s
Profession. Ed. L.
W. Conolly. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Pr., 2005. 242 pp (the 1938 revised and
authorized text with full introduction, bibliography, and appendices)
The
collected screenplays.
Ed. Bernard F. Dukore.
Collected
letters. Ed. Dan H.
Laurence.
The diaries,
1885-1897, with early autobiographical notebooks and diaries, and an abortive
1917 diary. Ed.
Stanley Weintraub.
Interviews
and recollections.
Ed. Anthony M. Gibbs.
The drama
observed. Ed.
Bernard F. Dukore.
Our theatres in the nineties. London:
Constable, 1932. 3 vols. (all repr., with notes, in The drama observed)
Shaw and
Ibsen: Bernard Shaw’s The Quintessence of Ibsenism and related writings. Ed. J. L.
Wisenthal.
Shaw: an
autobiography, selected from his writings by Stanley Weintraub. NY: Weybright & Talley,
1969-70. 2 vols.
Theatrics:
selected correspondence. Ed. Dan H. Laurence.
Bernard Shaw
and H. G. Wells: selected correspondence. Ed. J. Percy Smith.
Bernard Shaw
and Gabriel Pascal: selected correspondence. Ed. Bernard F. Dukore.
Bernard Shaw
and the Webbs: selected correspondence. Ed. Alex C. Michalos & Deborah C. Poff.
Bernard Shaw
and Barry Jackson: selected correspondence.
Shaw, Lady
Gregory and the Abbey: a correspondence and a record. Ed. Dan H. Laurence & Nicholas
Grene. Gerrards Cross: Smythe, 1993. 200 pp
Bernard
Shaw’s letters to Granville Barker. Ed. C. B. Purdom.
Advice to a
young critic, and other letters. Ed. E. J. West. NY: Crown, 1955. 208 pp
Bernard
Shaw’s letters to Siegfried Trebitsch. Ed. Samuel A. Weiss.
Shaw on
Shakespeare: an anthology of Bernard Shaw’s writings on the plays and
production of Shakespeare. Ed. Edwin Wilson. NY: Dutton, 1961. 284 pp
Bernard Shaw
on cinema. Ed.
Bernard F. Dukore.
Nondramatic
literary criticism.
Ed. Stanley Weintraub.
Bernard Shaw’s
book reviews, originally published in the
Shaw's music:
the complete musical criticism. Ed. Dan H. Laurence.
How to
become a musical critic. Ed. Dan H. Laurence. NY: Hill & Wang, 1961. 359 pp
The great
composers: reviews and bombardments by Bernard Shaw. Ed. Louis Crompton.
Bernard Shaw
on the London art scene, 1885-1950. Ed. Stanley Weintraub.
Shaw on Dickens. Ed. Dan H. Laurence & Martin
Quinn. NY: Ungar, 1985. 150 pp
Platform and
pulpit. Ed. Dan H.
Laurence. NY: Hill & Wang, 1961. 302 pp
The
religious speeches of Bernard Shaw. Ed. Warren S. Smith.
The intelligent woman’s guide to socialism and capitalism. NY: Brentano’s,
1928. 495 pp
Everybody’s political what’s what?. London:
Constable, 1944. 380 pp
Agitations:
letters to the press 1875-1950. Ed. Dan H. Laurence & James Rambeau. NY: Ungar, 1985.
375 pp
The letters of Bernard Shaw to The Times.
Ed. Ronald Ford. Dublin: Irish Academic Pr., 2007. 288 pp (warning: the first
printing of this book is full of mistranscriptions and other errors)
The road to
equality: ten unpublished lectures and essays, 1884-1918. Ed. Louis Crompton.
Practical
politics: twentieth-century views on politics and economics. Ed. Lloyd J. Hubenka.
What Shaw really wrote about the war. Ed. J. L.
Wisenthal & Daniel O’Leary. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2006. 344 pp
The matter
with Ireland. 2nd
ed. Ed. Dan H. Laurence & David H. Greene.
Ellen Terry
and Bernard Shaw: a correspondence.
Bernard Shaw
and Mrs. Patrick Campbell: their correspondence. Ed. Alan Dent.
The
playwright and the pirate: Bernard Shaw and Frank Harris, a correspondence. Ed. Stanley Weintraub.
Bernard Shaw
and Alfred Douglas: a correspondence.
George
Bernard Shaw: eight interviews [with
Bernard Shaw
and Nancy Astor: selected correspondence. Ed. J. P. Wearing. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Pr., 2005. 235
pp