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ESSENTIAL VOLUMES OF WRITINGS BY SHAW

 

 

[Standard edition of the works of Bernard Shaw.] London: Constable, 1930-50. 37 vols.

 

The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: collected plays with their prefaces. Ed. Dan H. Laurence. London: Reinhardt, 1970-1974. 7 vols.

 

The complete prefaces. Ed. Dan H. Laurence & Daniel J. Leary. London: Allen Lane, 1993-1997. 3 vols.

 

Early texts: play manuscripts in facsimile. General editor, Dan H. Laurence. NY: Garland, 1981. 12 vols.

 

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. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Pr., 1980. 487 pp

 

Collected letters. Ed. Dan H. Laurence. London: Reinhardt, 1965-1988. 4 vols.

 

The diaries, 1885-1897, with early autobiographical notebooks and diaries, and an abortive 1917 diary. Ed. Stanley Weintraub. Univ. Park: Penn State UP, 1986. 2 vols.

 

Interviews and recollections. Ed. Anthony M. Gibbs. London: Macmillan, 1990. 560 pp

 

The drama observed. Ed. Bernard F. Dukore. Univ. Park: Penn State UP, 1993. 4 vols.

 

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. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Pr., 1979. 268 pp

 

Shaw: an autobiography, selected from his writings by Stanley Weintraub. NY: Weybright & Talley, 1969-70. 2 vols.

 

Theatrics: selected correspondence. Ed. Dan H. Laurence. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Pr., 1995. 253 pp

 

Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells: selected correspondence. Ed. J. Percy Smith. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Pr., 1995

 

Bernard Shaw and Gabriel Pascal: selected correspondence. Ed. Bernard F. Dukore. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Pr., 1996. 285 pp

 

Bernard Shaw and the Webbs: selected correspondence. Ed. Alex C. Michalos & Deborah C. Poff. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Pr., 2002. 311 pp

 

Bernard Shaw and Barry Jackson: selected correspondence. Ed. L. W. Conolly. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Pr., 2002. 218 pp

 

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. London: Phoenix House, 1956. 206 pp

 

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. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 1986. 494 pp

 

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. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1997. 187 pp

 

Nondramatic literary criticism. Ed. Stanley Weintraub. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Pr., 1972. 246 pp

 

Bernard Shaw’s book reviews, originally published in the Pall Mall Gazette from 1885 to 1888. Ed. Brian F. Tyson. Univ. Park: Penn State UP, 1991. 511 pp; Bernard Shaw's book reviews, volume 2: 1884-1950. Ed. Tyson. Univ. Park: Penn State UP, 1996. 588 pp

 

Shaw's music: the complete musical criticism. Ed. Dan H. Laurence. London: Max Reinhardt / The Bodley Head, 1981. 3 vols.

 

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. Berkeley: Univ. of California Pr., 1978. 378 pp

 

Bernard Shaw on the London art scene, 1885-1950. Ed. Stanley Weintraub. Univ. Park: Penn State UP, 1989. 482 pp

 

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. Univ. Park: Penn State UP, 1963. 104 pp

 

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. Boston: Beacon Pr., 1971. 348 pp

 

Practical politics: twentieth-century views on politics and economics. Ed. Lloyd J. Hubenka. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Pr., 1976. 266 pp

 

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. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2005. 368 pp

 

Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw: a correspondence. Ed. Christopher St. John. London: Reinhardt, 1949. 433 pp

 

Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell: their correspondence. Ed. Alan Dent. London: Gollancz, 1952. 339 pp

 

The playwright and the pirate: Bernard Shaw and Frank Harris, a correspondence. Ed. Stanley Weintraub. Univ. Park : Penn State UP, 1982. 273 pp

 

Bernard Shaw and Alfred Douglas: a correspondence. New Haven, CT: Ticknor & Fields, 1982. 237 pp

 

George Bernard Shaw: eight interviews [with Hayden Church]. Ed. Edward C. Latham. Peacham, VT: Perpetua Pr., 2002. 88 pp

 

Bernard Shaw and Nancy Astor: selected correspondence. Ed. J. P. Wearing. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Pr., 2005. 235 pp 

 

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