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APPENDIX: EARLIEST SECONDARY WORKS THROUGH 1939

Bibliographic and Reference Works

Broad, C. Lewis, & Violet M. Broad. Dictionary to the plays and novels of Bernard Shaw with bibliography of his works and of the literature concerning him, with a record of the principal Shavian play productions. London: Black, 1929. 230 pp

Heydet, Xavier. Shaw-Kompendium: Verzeichnis und Analyse seiner Werke; Shaw-Bibliographie: Verzeichnis der Literatur über Shaw; Verzeichnis der Aufführungen seiner Werke in England und Deutschland. Paris: Didier, 1936. 224 pp

Holmes, Maurice. Some bibliographical notes on the novels of George Bernard Shaw, with some comments by Bernard Shaw. London: Dulau, 1929. 19 pp

Rattray, R. F. Bernard Shaw: a chronicle and an introduction. London: Duckworth, 1934. 256 pp; repr. as Bernard Shaw: a chronicle. NY: Roy, 1951

Wells, Geoffrey H. A bibliography of the books and pamphlets of Shaw, with occasional notes by G. B. Shaw. Rev. ed. London: Bookman’s Journal, 1929. 46 pp

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Biographical and Critical Works

Aas, Lars. Bernard Shaw og hans verker. Oslo: Gyldendal, 1927. 199 pp

-----. ‘George Bernard Shaw: socialismens digter.’ Samtiden 25 1914 107-28

Adcock, St. John. The glory that was Grub Street: impressions of contemporary authors. London: Low & Marston, 1928, 1-12: ‘Bernard Shaw’

Agate, James. My theatre talks. London: Arthur Barker, 1933, 55-61: ‘Mr. Bernard Shaw’s shockers’ (1926 essay)

Alexander, W. F. ‘A lord of misrule.’ Contemporary Review 92 1907 659-71

Alsina, José. ‘El humorismo de Bernard Shaw.’ Pp 179-98 in Museo dramático. Madrid: Renacimiento, 1918

Andrews, Charlton. The drama to-day. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1913, 132-42

[Anonymous]. ‘La iglesia y el humorista Bernard Shaw.’ Nueva Revista Peruana 1 1929 301-12

Archer, Charles. William Archer: his life, work and friendships. New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 1931, see index

Archer, William. The old drama and the new: an essay in re-valuation. Boston: Small, Maynard, 1923, 340-57 and see index

-----. Play-making: a manual of craftsmanship. London: Chapman & Hall, 1912, see index (many references to Shaw plays)

-----. ‘The Quintessence of Ibsenism: an open letter to George Bernard Shaw.’ New Review 5 1891 463-69; repr. in Thomas Postlewait, ed. William Archer on Ibsen: the major essays, 1889-1919. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1984, 29-34

-----. ‘Shaw v. Shakespeare and others.’ World May 27 1896; repr. in The theatrical ‘World’ of 1896 [c1897]. NY: Blom, 1971, 159-69

-----. Study & stage: a year-book of criticism. London: Grant Richards, 1899, 1-22: ‘Mr. Bernard Shaw’s plays’

Armstrong, Cecil F. Shakespeare to Shaw: studies in the life’s work of six dramatists of the English stage. London: Mills & Boon, 1913, 246-323

Arns, M. Kritische Betrachtungen über Bernard Shaw: Ein Wagnerbrever, Kommentar zum Ring der Nibelungen. Würzburg: Triltsch., 1939. 117 pp

Aronstein, Philipp. ‘Bernard Shaws Verhältnis zu Shakespeare.’ Neueren Sprachen 41 1933 65-68

-----. ‘Englische Dramatik.’ Pp 146-97 in Handbuch der Englandkunde, II. Ed. Paul Hartig & Wilhelm Schellberg. Frankfurt: Moritz Diesterweg, 1929 (186-90 outlines Shaw’s work)

-----. ‘George Bernard Shaw als Persönlichkeit.’ Neueren Sprachen 40 1932 458-73

Bab, Julius. Bernard Shaw. Berlin: Fischer, 1910. 453 pp (rev. ed 1926); see also his Das Theater der Gegenwart: Geschichte der dramatischen Bühne seit 1870. Leipzig: Weber, 1928, 101-05 and see index

Bakshy, Alexander. The theatre unbound. London: Cecil Palmer, 1923, 108-15

Balmforth, Ramsden. The ethical and religious value of the drama. London: Allen & Unwin, 1925, 152-96 (essays on Androcles and the Lion, Back to Methuselah, and Saint Joan)

Barnicoat, Constance A. ‘Mr. Bernard Shaw’s counterfeit presentment of women.’ Fortnightly 85 1906 516-27

Barzun, Jacques. Race: a study in modern superstition. NY: Harcourt, Brace, 1937, 282-93

Belgion, Montgomery. Our present philosophy of life. London: Faber & Faber, 1929, 49-122: ‘According to Mr. Bernard Shaw’

Beerbohm, Max. Around theatres. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1954, see index for reviews (book first publ. in 1930)

-----. Last theatres 1904-1910. London: Hart-Davis, 1970, see index for reviews

-----. More theatres 1898-1903. London: Hart-Davis, 1969, 17-27 and see index for reviews

Benavente, Jacinto. El teatro del pueblo. Madrid: Fernando Fé, 1909, 75-78

‘Bernard Shaw’s Intelligent Woman’s Guide: some opinions.’ Criterion 8 1928 191-214: statements by Harold J. Laski, 191-94; M. C. D’Arcy, 195-201; A. L. Rowse, 201-05; Kenneth Pickthorn, 205-14

Beswick, Harry. ‘G.B.S.: the orator.’ Shaw Review 8 1965 25-28 (1906 comment); see also John J. Weisert. ‘More on Shavian oratory.’ Shaw Review 8 1965 112-13 (1909 comment)

Bishop, George W. Barry Jackson and the London theatre. London: Barker, 1933, 23-36, 109-22, 141-46, and see index (Jackson’s productions of various Shaw plays)

Björkman, Edwin. Is there anything new under the sun? London: Kennerley, 1911, 161-82: ‘The serious Bernard Shaw’ (from Review of Reviews 43 1911 425-29)

Bland, J. O. P. ‘Self-appointed statesman.’ Nineteenth Century 77 1915 560-72 (critique of Shaw on the war)

Block, Anita. The changing world in plays and theatre. Boston: Little, Brown, 1939, 45-57

Blum, Jean. ‘George Bernard Shaw.’ Revue Germanique 10 1906 634-55 (in French)

Borsa, Mario. The English stage of to-day. London: John Lane, 1908, 120-66 (translation of Il teatro inglese contemporaneo. Milan: Treves, 1905)

Bosdari, A. de. ‘George Bernard Shaw.’ Nuova Antologia 229 1911 549-66 (in Italian)

Boyd, Ernest A. Appreciations and depreciations: Irish literary studies. Dublin: Talbot Pr., 1917, 103-38: ‘An Irish Protestant: Bernard Shaw’ (stresses his lack of influence on Ireland and the French critical reception of his plays)

Boza, Masvidal A. ‘La dramática de Shaw y Pirandello.’ Estudios de Literatura Italiana (Havana) 1934 7-36; also in Universidad de la Havana 1 Jan-Mar 1934 61-81, and in Revista Americana (Buenos Aires) 13 no. 154 1937 99-118

Braybrooke, Patrick. The genius of Bernard Shaw. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott, 1925. 168 pp

-----. The subtlety of George Bernard Shaw. London: Cecil Palmer, 1930. 243 pp

Brecht, Bertolt. ‘Ovation für Shaw.’ Berliner Bösen-Courier July 25 1926; repr. on pp 70-75 in Otten; translated as ‘Three cheers for Shaw’ in Brecht on theatre: the development of an aesthetic. Ed. John Willett. NY: Hill & Wang, 1964, 10-13

Bridie, James. ‘George Bernard Shaw.’ Pp 130-40 in Great contemporaries: essays by various hands. London: Cassell, 1935 (publ. in NY as Men of Turmoil)

Brinser, Ayers. The respectability of Mr. Bernard Shaw. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1931. 57 pp (largely negative evaluation)

Brion, Marcel. ‘Bernard Shaw.’ Grande Revue Nov 1927 42-59

Broun, Heywood, & Margaret Leech. Anthony Comstock, roundsman of the Lord. London: Wishart, 1928, 246-54 (his indignation at Mrs Warren’s Profession, and Shaw’s response)

Broutá, Julio. ‘El teatro de Bernard Shaw.’ Revista Crítica 3 April 1903 12-43

Brunelli, Bruno. Le idee di Bernardo Shaw. Florence: La Nave, 1921. 159 pp

Bruton, Percy. Adventures among immortals: Percy Bruton—impresario, as told to Lowell Thomas. NY: Dodd, 1937, 183-201 (anecdotes about Shaw as ‘first-rate practical man of the theatre’)

Bry, Carl C. ‘Shaw.’ Hochland (Munich) 23 1926 408-25 (‘Die Stückeschreiber’), 574-85 (‘Der Mann der Öffentlichkeit’)

Burton, Richard. Bernard Shaw: the man and the mask. NY: Holt, 1916. 305 pp (pedestrian)

Buyssens, E. ‘L’optique de Bernard Shaw.’ Revue de l’Université de Bruxelles 43 1938 404-17

-----. ‘Les sept saintes de Bernard Shaw.’ Revue de l’Université de Bruxelles 34 iv 1929 481-91 (heroines in seven plays)

Cammaerts, Émile. ‘Molière and Bernard Shaw.’ Nineteenth Century 100 1926 413-22

Caro, Josef. ‘Bernard Shaw und Shakespeare.’ Neueren Sprachen 22 1914 433-48, 509-25 (1912 essay)

Cary, Elizabeth L. ‘Apostles of the new drama.’ Lamp (NY) 27 1904 593-98 (Shaw and Yeats)

Castrén, Gunnar. G. Bernard Shaw. Helsinki: Förlagsaktiebolaget Helios, 1906. 53 pp

Caudwell, Christopher. Studies in a dying culture. London: Bodley Head, 1938, 1-19: ‘George Bernard Shaw: a study of the bourgeois Superman’; repr. on pp 147-59 in William S. Scott, ed. Five approaches of literary criticism: an arrangement of contemporary critical essays. NY: Macmillan, 1962

Cehan, B., & Edmund Dulac. Bernard Shaw. Bucharest: Excelsior, 1934. 88 pp

Cestre, Charles. Bernard Shaw et son oeuvre. Paris: Mercure de France, 1912. 327 pp

Chandler, Frank W. Aspects of modern drama. NY: Macmillan, 1914, 399-421 and see index

Chendi, Ilarie. ‘Un spirit contemporan: George Bernard Shaw.’ Calendarul Minervei 1911 225-38

Chesterton, Gilbert. K. The autobiography of G. K. Chesterton. NY: Sheed & Ward, 1936, 229-36 and see index

-----. George Bernard Shaw. Enlarged ed. London: Bodley Head, 1909. 249 pp

-----. ‘George Bernard Shaw.’ Fortnightly Review 130 1931 150-59

-----. Sidelights on new London and newer York, and other essays. NY: Dodd, 1932, 234-39: ‘Shakespeare and Shaw’; from Shakespeare Review 1 May 1928 10-13

Chislett, William. Moderns and near-moderns: essays on Henry James, Stockton, Shaw, and others. NY: Grafton Pr., 1928, 129-45

Churchill, Winston. Great contemporaries. London: Butterworth, 1937, 175-77: ‘George Bernard Shaw’

Clark, Barrett H. The British and American drama of to-day: outlines for their study. NY: Holt, 1915, 63-90

-----. ‘Contemporary English dramatists, I.’ English Journal 15 1926 490-99

-----. A study of the modern drama: a handbook for the study and appreciation of the best plays, European, English, and American, of the last half century. NY: Appleton, 1928, 250-63 and see index (first publ. 1925)

Closset, François G. Bernard Shaw, son oeuvre, portrait et autographe: documents. Paris: Nouvelle Revue Critique, 1931. 80 pp

Cohn, Erna. Eltern und Kinder bei Bernard Shaw. Leipzig: Druck von Helm & Torton, 1927. 93 pp

Colbourne, Maurice. The real Bernard Shaw. NY: Dodd, Mead, 1940. 253 pp (first publ. in 1930)

Collis, John S. Shaw. London: Cape, 1925. 192 pp

Compton, Charles H. Who reads what?: essays on the readers of Mark Twain, Hardy, Sandburg, Shaw, William James, the Greek classics. NY: H. W. Wilson, 1934, 70-90: ‘Who reads Bernard Shaw?’

Cunliffe, J. W. English literature during the last half century. NY: Macmillan, 1919, 119-50

-----. English literature in the twentieth century. NY: Macmillan, 1933, 45-85

-----. Leaders of the Victorian revolution. NY: Appleton-Century, 1934, 315-32

-----. Modern English playwrights: a short history of the English drama from 1825. NY: Harper, 1927, 54-83 and see index

D’Amico, Silvio. Il teatro dei fantocci: G. B. Shaw, i grotteschi, J. Benavente. Florence: Vallecchi, 1920, pp 11-73: ‘La tecnica teatrale de Bernardo Shaw’

Dana, H. W. L. ‘Shaw in Moscow.’ American Mercury 25 1932 343-52

D’Angelo, Evelyn. ‘George Bernard Shaw’s theory of stage representation.’ Quarterly Journal of Speech 15 1929 330-49

Deacon, Renée M. Bernard Shaw as artist-philosopher: an exposition of Shavianism. London: Fifield, 1910. 106 pp

De Casseres, Benjamin. Mencken and Shaw: the anatomy of America’s Voltaire and England’s other John Bull. NY: Silas Newton, 1930. 146 pp

Dell, Floyd. Looking at life. NY: Knopf, 1924, 69-74: ‘Shaw and Jesus’ (1916 essay); 169-77: ‘Love among the Shavians’ (1919 essay)

-----. ‘Shaw and religion.’ Seven Arts 1 i 1916 82-88

De Pue, Elva. ‘Bernard Shaw and his buried treasure.’ Seven Arts 2 1917 344-55 (he has strong feelings but suppresses them)

Desmond, Shaw. ‘Dunsany, Yeats, and Shaw: trinity of magic.’ Bookman (NY) 58 1923 260-66

Dickinson, G. Lowes. ‘Shakespeare, Ibsen and Mr. Bernard Shaw.’ Independent Review 10 July 1906 83-88

Dickinson, Thomas H. ‘Bernard Shaw and Woodow Wilson.’ Virginia Quarterly Review 7 1931 11-17

-----. The contemporary drama of England. Boston: Little, Brown, 1917, 176-204: ‘George Bernard Shaw’; see also his The insurgent theatre. NY: Huebsch, 1917, 231-38, and An outline of contemporary drama. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1927, 194-207

Duffin, Henry C. ‘Bernard Shaw and a critic.’ Cornhill Magazine 56 1924 31-40

-----. The quintessence of Bernard Shaw. London: Allen & Unwin, 1920. 223 pp

-----. ‘Shaw: the later plays.’ Cornhill Magazine 65 1928 672-80

Duffy, P. Gavan. ‘Shavian religion.’ Century Magazine 87 1914 908-14

Dukes, Ashley. Modern dramatists. London: Frank Palmer, 1911, 118-36 and see index

-----. ‘Post-mortem: a note on Mr. Bernard Shaw and the modern English theatre.’ Drama (Chicago) 7 Aug 1912 78-95

Dunton-Green, L. ‘G. B. Shaw, critique musicale.’ Revue Musicale May 1933 334-39 (review of Music in London 1890-1894)

Dyde, S. W. ‘Shakespeare in the eyes of Bernard Shaw.’ Queen’s Quarterly 32 1925 276-84

Ebel, Walter. ‘Das Geschlechtsproblem bei Bernard Shaw.’ Zeitschrift für Französischen und Englischen Unterricht 26 1927 20-33, 186-99

Edwards, G. B. ‘Shaw.’ Adelphi 4 1926 17-32

Ellehauge, Martin O. M. The position of Bernard Shaw in European drama and philosophy. Copenhagen: Levin & Munksgaard, 1931. 390 pp; repr. NY: Haskell House, 1966

Ellis, Havelock. ‘The prophet Shaw.’ Weekly Critical Review Jan 15 1904; repr. on pp 194-203 in his Views and reviews: a selection of uncollected articles 1884-1932: first series, 1884-1919. London: Desmond Harmsworth, 1933?, and on pp 291-96 in his From Marlowe to Shaw: the studies, 1876-1936, in English literature of Havelock Ellis. Ed. John Gawsworth. London: Williams & Norgate, 1950 (essay prompted by Man and Superman)

Engel, Fritz. Bernard Shaw und seine besten Bühnenwerke: eine Einführung. Berlin: Schneider, 1921. 64 pp

Ervine, St. John. ‘The Shavian belief.’ Yale Review 18 1928 290-301 (on The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism)

Fehr, Bernhard. Die englische Literatur des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts. Berlin: Athenaion, 1923, 485-97 and see index

Figgis, Darrell. Studies and appreciations. London: Dent, 1912, 250-58

Filon, Augustin. ‘M. Bernard Shaw et son théâtre.’ Revue des Deux Mondes 30 1905 405-33

Fischer, Walther. Bernard Shaw in seinem dramatischen Werken. Würzburg: J. Franks, 1920

Franc, Miriam A. Ibsen in England. Boston: Four Seas, 1919, see index (many references to Shaw)

Freeman, John. The moderns: essays in literary criticism. London: Scott, 1916, 1-51

Fyfe, W. H. ‘George Bernard Shaw.’ Queens Quarterly 39 1932 29-45 (parallels with Socrates)

Gad, Lily. Bernard Shaw, profet og gøgler. Copenhagen: Hasselbalch, 1920. 133 pp

Galinsky, K. H. ‘G. B. Shaws Auseinandersetzung mit dem Deutschtum.’ Zeitschrift für Neusprachlichen Unterricht 34 1935 23-36, 79-96

Garland, Hamlin. My friendly contemporaries: a literary log. NY: Macmillan, 1932, 428-32, 507-21

George, Walter L., & Raymond Lauzerte. ‘Les idées et le théâtre de G. Bernard Shaw.’ Pages Libres 363 1907 601-17

Gillet, Louis.‘Six comédies de Bernard Shaw.’ Revue des Deux Mondes 1920 675-86

Gillis, J. M. False prophets. NY: Macmillan, 1934, 1-19: ‘George Bernard Shaw’ (from Catholic World 118 1924 525-33)

Goldman, Emma. The social significance of the modern drama. Boston: Richard G. Badger, 1914, 175-95

Grant, Percy S. Essays. NY: Harper, 1968, 9-32 (book first publ. in 1922)

Gregory, Lady Augusta. Our Irish theatre: a chapter of autobiography. London: Putnam, 1914, 140-68, 299-305 and see index

Grendon, Felix. ‘Shakespeare and Shaw.’ Sewanee Review 16 1908 168-83

-----. ‘Some misconceptions concerning Shaw.’ Poet Lore 20 1909 376-86

Groos, René. Esquisses. St. Felicien en Vivarais & Paris: Pigeonnier, 1928, 37-59: ‘B. Shaw’ (first publ. in Mercure de France 192 1926 513–26)

Grossman, K. ‘Zu Bernard Shaws Vermächtnis.’ Neuer Schweizer Rundschau 21 1928 776-83

Guedella, Philip. A gallery. London: Constable, 1924, 73-81

-----. Men of letters. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1927, 87-98

Guyot, Edouard. Le socialisme et l’évolution de l’Angleterre contemporaine (1880-1911). Paris: Félix Alcan, 1913, 425-62

Gwynn, Stephen. ‘Mr. G. B. Shaw and the British public.’ Cornhill Magazine 91 1905 503-12

Haas, Margarete. ‘Bernard Shaws unromantische Auffassung der Frau.’ Neueren Sprachen 37 1929 45-49

Hackett, J. P. Shaw, George versus Bernard. London: Sheed & Ward, 1939 [1937]. 216 pp

Hale, Edward E. Dramatists of to-day: Rostand, Hauptmann, Sudermann, Pinero, Shaw, Phillips, Maeterlinck: being an informal discussion of their significant work. 6th ed. NY: Holt, 1911, 112-47 (first publ. in 1905)

Hamilton, Clayton. Conversations on contemporary drama. NY: Macmillan, 1924, 42-67

-----. Problems of the playwright. NY: Holt, 1917, 110-15, 119-26, and see index

Hamilton, Mary A. Sidney and Beatrice Webb. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1933, 13-17 and see index

Hammond, Josephine. ‘The quillurgence of Shaw.’ Personalist 4 1923 149-65, 253-60; 5 1924 33-46

Hamon, Augustin F. Le Molière du XX^e siècle: Bernard Shaw. Paris: Figuière, 1913. 254 pp; translated as The twentieth century Molière: Bernard Shaw. London: Allen & Unwin, 1915. 322 pp

-----, & Henriette Hamon. Considérations sur l’art dramatique à propos de la comédie de Bernard Shaw. Paris: Figuière, 1913. 48 pp

Hankin, St. John. The dramatic works, III. NY: Kennerley, 1912, 149-70: ‘Mr. Bernard Shaw as critic’ (from Fortnightly Review 87 1907 1061-66)

Hansen, Adolf. ‘Bernard Shaws skuespil.’ Tilskueren (Copenhagen) 1901 374-89 (stresses Ibsen’s influence)

Harris, Frank. Bernard Shaw: an unauthorized biography based on first hand information, with a postscript by Mr. Shaw. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1931. 430 pp

-----. Contemporary portraits, second series. NY: Frank Harris, 1919, 1-44

Hartmann, Alfons. Der moderne englische Einakter. Leipzig: Robert Noske, 1936, 61-67 (some of Shaw’s violate the rules of the genre)

Henderson, Archibald. ‘Bernard Shaw at eighty.’ Yale University Library Gazette 12 Oct 1937 18-30 (same issue describes the Shaw collection Henderson gave to Yale)

-----. The changing drama: contributions and tendencies. Cincinnati: Stewart & Kidd, 1914, see index (many scattered comments on Shaw)

-----. European dramatists. Cincinnati, OH: Stewart & Kidd, 1913, 322-61: ‘George Bernard Shaw’

-----. ‘George Bernard Shaw.’ North American Review 185 1907 293-305

-----. George Bernard Shaw, his life and works: a critical biography (authorized). Cincinnati: Stewart & Kidd, 1911. 528 pp; Bernard Shaw, playboy and prophet. NY: Appleton, 1932. 871 pp

-----. ‘George Bernard Shaw self-revealed.’ Fortnightly Review 125 1926 433-42, 610-18 (revealing conversation on his dramaturgy)

-----. Interpreters of life and the modern spirit. Cincinnati: Stewart & Kidd, 1911, 286-330

-----. Table-talk of G.B.S.: conversations on things in general between George Bernard Shaw and his biographer. NY: Harper, 1925. 162 pp (includes long sections on the drama, theatre, and films, and on ‘The great war and the aftermath’)

Henríquez Ureña, Pedro. ‘Bernard Shaw: vida y obra.’ Cursos y Conferencias 3 1933 593-636; ‘Shaw y la economía política.’ Cursos y Conferencias 3 1934 785-95; ‘Filosofía y estética.’ Cursos y Conferencias 3 1934 1155-64

Heuser, Hilde. Die Eigenart des Socialismus George Bernard Shaws. Frankfurt: Blazek und Bergmann, 1934. 111 pp

Hevesi, S<ndor. Shaw brevarium: az íËo, az ember és a müvek. Budapest: Rózsavolgyi, 1923

Heydet, Xavier. ‘Richard Wagner et Bernard Shaw.’ Revue de l’Enseignement des Langues Vivantes June 1937 245-58

Hirst, Francis W. ‘Mr. Bernard Shaw’s theory of socialism and capitalism.’ Contemporary Review 134 1928 568-75 (on The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism)

Hoffstein, Ernest G. ‘The plays of Bernard Shaw.’ Sewanee Review 12 1904 217-22

Howe, P. P. Bernard Shaw: a critical study. London: Secker, 1915. 173 pp (derogatory estimate)

-----. The repertory theatre: a record & a criticism. London: Secker, 1910, 91-101, 217-27 and see index

Howells, William Dean. W. D. Howells as critic. Ed. Edwin H. Cady. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973, 427-32: ‘Shaw and Shakespeare’ (1905 essay)

Huneker, James. Iconoclasts: a book of dramatists. NY: Scribner’s, 1905, 233-68: ‘The quintessence of Shaw’; repr. on pp 1-27 in his Essays. NY: Scribner’s, 1929, and on pp 7-25 in Kronenberger

-----. ‘A word on the dramatic opinions and essays of Bernard Shaw.’ In Shaw. Dramatic opinions and essays, with an apology by Bernard Shaw, volume I. NY: Brentano’s, 1906, ix-xix

Hyndman, Henry M. Further reminiscences. London: Macmillan, 1912, 218-39 (less biographical than critical)

Jackson, Holbrook. Bernard Shaw. London: Grant Richards, 1907. 233 pp

-----. The eighteen nineties: a review of art and ideas at the close of the nineteenth century. London: Grant Richards, 1913, 234-59

Jameson, Storm. Modern drama in Europe. NY: Harcourt, Brace & Howe, 1920, 137-47

Jones, Doris A. The life and letters of Henry Arthur Jones. London: Gollancz, 1931, 310-32 and see index

Jones, Henry Arthur. ‘Bernard Shaw as a thinker.’ English Review 36 1923 532-36; 37 1923 65-74, 227-31, 644-48; 38 1924 345-50

Kane, W. T. ‘George Bernard Shaw.’ Month viii 1927 115-26 (critique of his thinking)

Kapteyn-Muysken, Geertruida. G. Bernard Shaw. The Hague: Luctor & Emergo, 1910. 99 pp

Kellner, Leon. Die englische Literatur der neuesten Zeit von Dickens bis Shaw. Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1921, 381-97

Kennedy, J. M. English literature, 1880-1905. London: Swift, 1912, 154-205: ‘George Bernard Shaw’ (some stress on Man and Superman)

Kerr, Alfred. Ich kam nach England: ein Tagebuch aus dem Nachlass. Bonn: Bouvier, 1979, 52-66 (comments from the thirties)

Keunen, J. ‘G. B. Shaw’s eerste opvoeding.’ Dietsche Warande en Belfort 1938 592-602

-----. ‘Rond G. B. Shaw’s Quintessence of Ibsenism.’ Dietsche Warande en Belfort 1938 377-85

Krnic, Ivan. ‘Bernard Shaw kao dramaticar.’ Savremenik 1 i 1906 104-15

Krog, Helge. Meninger om bøker og forfattere. Oslo: Aschehoug, 1929, 185-94: ‘Bernard Shaw’ (1926 essays)

Krutch, Joseph W. ‘The Shavian dilemma.’ Nation 141 1935 291-93; repr. on pp 120-25 in Kronenberger

Lalou, René. Panorama de la littérature anglaise contemporaine. Paris: Kra, 1927, 161-73

Lavrin, Janko. Studies in European literature. NY: Richard R. Smith, 1930, 80-98: ‘Ibsen and Shaw’

Lawson, John H. Theory and technique of playwriting. NY: Putnam, 1936, see index (new edition in 1949 encompasses screenwriting)

Le Mesurier, Lilian. The socialist woman’s guide to intelligence: a reply to Mr. Shaw. London: Benn, 1929. 208 pp

Lewisohn, Ludwig. The drama and the stage. NY: Harcourt, Brace, 1922, 158-67: ‘Shaw among the mystics’

-----. The modern drama: an essay in intepretation. NY: Huebsch, 1921, 191-202 and see index

Littell, Philip. Books and things. NY: Harcourt, Brace & Howe, 1919, 127-39: ‘The bondage of Shaw’ (his views and tone remain the same throughout his work)

Lord, Daniel A. ‘George Bernard Shaw.’ Catholic World 102 1916 768-80, 103 1916 24-37 (attacks his religious views)

-----. ‘Martyrs according to Bernard Shaw.’ Catholic World 100 1915 577-90

Lu Xun. ‘Six essays in defense of Bernard Shaw.’ Translated & ed. by Florence Chien (with prefatory note, 57-60). SHAW 12 1992 61-78 (all dated 1933)

Lynd, Robert. Old and new masters. London: Fisher Unwin, 1919, 142-48

MacCarthy, Desmond. The Court Theatre, 1904-1907. Ed. Stanley Weintraub. Coral Gables, FL: Univ. of Miami Pr., 1966, 47-118 and see index (the 1907 edition with introduction and appendices)

Mackworth, Margaret H. (Lady Rhondda). Notes on the way. MY: Macmillan, 1937, 71-75: ‘Shaw on sex’; 186-93: ‘The Apple Cart’; 194-98: ‘That gadfly’; 198-205: ‘Too True to be Good’

-----. ‘Shaw’s women: artist-philosophers and their dangers.’ Time and Tide 11 1930 300-301; ‘Shaw’s women: the Shavian Everywoman,’ 331-34; ‘Shaw’s women: why Ann is a cad,’ 364-66; ‘Shaw’s women: the conduit-pipe theory,’ 395-96; ‘Shaw’s women: the Shavian Eve,’ 436-38; ‘Shaw’s women: if Saint Joan had not been a saint . . . ?’ 468-70

Mansel, Mildred E. ‘Bernard Shaw and feminism.’ Socialist Review 9 1912 50-57

Marble, Annie R. The Nobel Prize winners in literature, 1901-1931. NY: Appleton-Century, 1932, 277-95: ‘George Bernard Shaw: dramatist, satirist, and prophet’

Marriott, J. W. Modern drama. London: Thomas Nelson, 1934, 106-18

Martin, Burns. ‘Shaw on Shakespeare.’ Dalhousie Review 13 1934 478-88

Mason, Michael. ‘Mr. Shaw, Shakespeare, and the secondary schoolboy.’ Nineteenth Century 103 1928 525-36

Maugham, W. Somerset. The summing up. London: Heinemann, 1938, 132-33, 136-40 (Shaw’s influence on followers in drama has been ‘devastating’)

Maurois, André. Prophets and poets. NY: Harper, 1935, 95-138: ‘Bernard Shaw, the skeptical prophet’ (book is a translation of Magiciens et logiciens; Shaw essay on pp 101-38); see his ‘Bernard Shaw par Bernard Shaw.’ Revue de Paris 57 Dec 1950 5-11, which records Shaw’s comments in the margins of the lecture

McCabe, Joseph. George Bernard Shaw: a critical study. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1914. 261 pp

McNulty, Edward. ‘Memoirs of G.B.S.’ Ed. with prefatory note (pp.1-4) by Dan H. Laurence. SHAW 12 1992 5-46 (dated June 1929)

Mellersh, H. E. L. ‘Shaw, Wells, and Creative Evolution.’ Fortnightly Review 125 1926 178-88

Mencken, H. L. George Bernard Shaw: his plays. Boston: Luce, 1905. 107 pp (first book on Shaw); see also his Prejudices: first series. NY: Knopf, 1919, 181-90: ‘The Ulster Polonius’

-----. The philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. London: Unwin, 1908, 272-79

Meyerfeld, Max. ‘Bernard Shaw und sein Dolmetsch.’ Englische Studien 33 1904 143-56 (review of Trebitsch’s translations of early works)

Michaud, Régis. Mystiques et réalistes anglo-saxons, d’Emerson à Bernard Shaw. Paris: Armand Colin, 1918, 255-94: ‘Bernard Shaw et le théâtre de la sincérité’

Miller, Nellie B. The living drama: historical development and modern movements visualized: a drama of the drama. NY: Century, 1924, 297-304

Mirsky, Dmitri. The intelligentsia of Great Britain. London: Gollancz, 1935, 48-56 (Shaw and Butler)

Montague, C. E. Dramatic values. Rev. ed. NY: Doubleday, Page, 1925, 75-99: ‘Some plays of Mr. G. B. Shaw’ (first publ. in 1911)

Moore-Rinvolucri, Mina J. Bernard Shaw et la France. Paris: Champion, 1933. 220 pp

Morgan, A. E. Tendencies of modern English drama. NY: Scribner’s, 1924, 42-55: ‘Shaw the iconoclast, I: Dramatic iconoclast’; 56-72: ‘Shaw the iconoclast, II: Social iconoclast’; 73-92: ‘Shaw the philosopher’

Nathan, George Jean. The magic mirror: selected writings on the theatre. Ed. Thomas Q. Curtis. NY: Knopf, 1960, 155-77 (four essays on Shaw from 1924 on)

----. ‘Toujours Shaw.’ Smart Set 43 June 1914 145-52

Nicoll, Allardyce. British drama: an historical survey from the beginnings to the present time. London: Harrap, 1925, 435-44 and see index

Norwood, Gilbert. Euripides and Shaw, with other essays. Boston: Luce, 1921, 1-48: ‘Euripides and Shaw: a comparison’

Odier, Henri. Études de littérature anglaise contemporaine. Geneva: Journal de Genève, 1913, 57-94: ‘Georges-Bernard Shaw, un socialiste irlandais, auteur dramatique’

Orage, A. R. ‘Orage on Shaw: an unpublished manuscript [‘The philosopher’].’ Shaw Review 22 1979 2-12 (probably written in 1909)

Page, Will A. Behind the curtains of the Broadway beauty trust. NY: Edward A. Miller, 1927, 209-27 (letters exchanged during a repertory season of Shaw plays)

Palmer, John. Bernard Shaw: an epitaph. London: Grant Richards, 1915. 88 pp; publ. in America as George Bernard Shaw: harlequin or patriot?. NY: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1915. 81 pp

-----. The censor and the theatres. NY: Mitchell Kennerley, 1913, see index

-----. The future of the theatre. London: Bell, 1913, 132-54 and see index (Shaw is ‘the Socrates of the English dramatic renaissance’)

Pearson, Hesketh. Modern men and mummers. NY: Harcourt, Brace, 1922, 7-32

Pellizzi, Camillo. Il teatro inglese. Milan: Treves, 1934, 101-27: ‘Shaw polemico ed umorista’; translated as English drama: the last great phase. London: Macmillan, 1935, 76-97

Peper, Elisabeth. ‘George Bernard Shaws Beziehungen zu Samuel Butler dem Jüngeren.’ Anglia 50 1926 295-316

Pérez de Ayala, Ramón. ‘La dramaturgia de Bernard Shaw.’ Máscaras 2 1919 309-15

Perry, Henry T. E. Masters of dramatic comedy and their social themes. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1939, 359-408

Petrescu, Camil. Teze si antiteze. Bucharest: Editura Cultura Nationala, 1934, 343-54: ‘D-ra Maria Ventura Õi B. Shaw’; 358-73: ‘Pirandello Õi Bernard Shaw’

Phelps, William L. Essays on modern dramatists. NY: Macmillan, 1921, 67-98: ‘Bernard Shaw’

Phillips, Hubert. ‘The Shavian ethics and philosophy.’ Methodist Review 99 1917 548-60

Pollard, Harold. ‘The philosophy of Bernard Shaw.’ Philosopher 9 1931 12-26

Ratcliffe, S. K. ‘Early Fabians.’ Pp 243-59 in Alfred B. Brown, ed. Great democrats. London: Nicholson & Watson, 1934

Rhodes, Winfred C. ‘Is Bernard Shaw among the prophets?’ Bibliotheca Sacra 63 1906 528-41

Rhondda, Lady. See Mackworth, Margaret H. (Lady Rhondda)

Richter, Helene. ‘Die Quintessenz des Shawismus.’ Englische Studien 46 1913 367-469

Rockow, Lewis. Contemporary political thought in England. London: Parsons, 1925, 266-75 (discusses some early plays)

Rodríguez Acasuso, Luis. Del teatro al libro. Buenos Aires: Cooperativa Editorial Limitada, 1920, 151-58

Rogers, A. K. ‘Mr. Bernard Shaw’s philosophy.’ Hibbert Journal 8 1910 818-37

Rogers, Joseph M. ‘Some aspects of George Bernard Shaw.’ Lippincotts 88 1906 444-53

Ropes, Arthur R. ‘History as Shaw is wrote.’ Contemporary Review 127 1925 341-50

Rubinstein, H. F. The English drama. London: Ernest Benn, 1928, 70-79

Ruegg, A. ‘B. Shaw auf dem Wege nach Damaskus.’ Schweizer Rundschau 25 1925 158-67, 326-28, 464-73

Russell, Frances T. ‘Complicated Bernard Shaw.’ University of California Chronicle 32 1930 468-90

Ruyssen, Henri. ‘Revue du théâtre anglais.’ Revue Germanique 24 1920 284-319 (286-292 on the newly published Constable volume containing Heartbreak House and five short plays)

Salter, William M. ‘Mr. Bernard Shaw as a social critic.’ International Journal of Ethics 18 1908 446-58

Sanden, Katharina von. ‘Shaw und sein Übersetzer.’ Suddeutsche Monatshefte 62 1908 450-63

Saxe, Joseph. Bernard Shaw’s phonetics: a comparative study of Cockney sound-changes. Copenhagen: Levin & Munksgaard, 1936. 86 pp

Scheiner, Eitelfritz. G. B. Shaw Nationalsozialist?. Berlin: Elsner, 1934. 59 pp (Nazi point of view)

Schlöser, Anselm. Die englische Literatur in Deutschland von 1895 bis 1934. Jena: Walter Biedermann, 1937, 92-101, 290-94

Scott, Dixon. Men of letters. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1916, 1-47: ‘The innocence of Bernard Shaw’; repr. on pp 72-104 in Kronenberger

Scott, Temple. ‘Bernard Shaw: the realizer of ideals.’ Forum (NY) 45 1911 334-54; see also ‘Temple Scott on Bernard Shaw: an unpublished article.’ Shaw Review 23 1980 21-26 (‘The terrible truthfulness of Mr. Shaw,’ written in 1909)

Scott-James, R. A. Personality in literature 1913-1931. London: Secker, 1931, 34-55

Sée, Henri. ‘Le socialisme et le capitalisme expliqués par Bernard Shaw.’ Grande Revue Aug 1929 295-305

Segal, Louis. Bernard Shaw: a study. London: Record Composition Co., 1912? 84 pp

Sen Gupta, S. C. The art of Bernard Shaw. London: Oxford UP, 1936. 249 pp

Shanks, Edward. Bernard Shaw. London: Nisbet, 1924. 128 pp

Shaw, Charles M. Bernard’s brethren. London: Constable, 1939. 161 pp (with comments on the text by Shaw)

Silverman, Albert H. ‘Shaws “Besser als Shakespeare.”’ Shakespeare-Jahrbuch 52 1916 84-140

Sirlin, Lázaro. ‘La sexuología en las comedias de Jorge Bernard Shaw.’ Sagitario 7 Oct-Nov 1926 50-58

Skimpole, Herbert [pseud. of Julius Herman]. Bernard Shaw: the man and his work. London: Allen & Unwin, 1918. 192 pp (superficial and adulatory)

Slosson, Edwin E. Six major prophets. Boston: Little, Brown, 1917, 1-55: ‘George Bernard Shaw: dramatic critic of life’

Sobra, Adrien. ‘Les femmes dans le théâtre de G. Bernard Shaw.’ Revue de l’Enseignement des Languages Vivantes 2 1936 49-57, 3 1936 109-15, 4 1936 164-74, 5 1936 198-211

Spender, J. A. ‘Mr Shaw’s prefaces.’ Nineteenth Century 62 1907 852-64

Starkie, Walter. Luigi Pirandello. 3rd ed. Berkeley: Univ. of California Pr., 1965, 243-64: ‘Pirandello and Bernard Shaw’ (first publ. in 1926)

Stewart, Herbert L. ‘The Puritanism of George Bernard Shaw.’ Royal Society of Canada: Proceedings and Transactions 24 ii 1930 89-100

Stier, Theodore. ‘Barker and Shaw at the Court Theatre: a view from the pit.’ Shaw Review 10 1967 18-33

Strachey, Lionel. ‘The popularity of Bernard Shaw.’ Critic (NY) 47 1905 415-23

Swinnerton, Frank. The Georgian scene: a literary panorama. NY: Farrar & Rinehart, 1934, 43-65

Tarantino, Vincent D. ‘Shaw the orthodox.’ San Francisco Quarterly 3 May 1937 1-12

Terry, Ellen. Ellen Terry’s memoirs. Ed. Christopher St. John & Edith Craig. NY: Putnam’s, 1932, 256-84, 287-301, and see index

Tetauer, Frank. ‘Filosofie Shawových her a pÍedmluv.’ Práce z Vdeckych Ústavç 31 1928 71-179

-----. Shaw: ideologie a dramatica. Prague: Druzstevni Práce, 1929. 166 pp

Thorndike, Ashley H. English comedy. NY: Macmillan, 1929, see index

Timmler, Markus. Die Anschauungen Bernard Shaws über die Aufgabe des Theaters auf Grund seiner Theorie und Praxis. Breslau: Priebatsch, 1936. 93 pp

Tissi, Silvio. Al microscopio psicanalitico: Pirandello, Ibsen, Shakespeare, Tolstoi, Shaw, Bourget, Gide, Dostojewskij alla luce della psicanalisi. Milan: Hoepli, 1933, 63-83

Torretta, Laura. ‘L’originalità di Bernard Shaw.’ Nuova Antologia 243 1925 42-53

Turner, W. G. ‘G. Bernard Shaw.’ Pp 132-43 in Edgell Rickword, ed. Scrutinies. London: Wishart, 1928 (Shaw as ‘the last and purest of the Rationalists’)

Vallese, Tarquinio. Il teatro di G. B. Shaw. Milan: Dante Alighieri, 1931. 88 pp

Van Amerongen, J. B. ‘Some notes on Bernard Shaw as a dramatist.’ Neophilologus 19 1933 46-52

Van…ura, Zdenêk. ‘Filosofie vývoje u H. G. Wellse a G. B. Shawa.’ Práce z Vdeckych Ústavç 31 1928 12-24

Van Doren, Carl, & Mark Van Doren. American and British literature since 1890. NY: Century, 1925, 220-234, 251-258, and see index

Vernon, Frank. The twentieth-century theatre. London: Harrap, 1924, 37-41, 43-48 and see index

Villanova d’Ardenghi, Bruno. ‘L’idee di G.B.S.’ Rivista Teatrale Italiana 12 1913 1-9, 72-82, 129-43

Vöhringer, Otto. ‘Die Verzweiflung eines Rationalisten: Bernard Shaw in seinen letzten Werken.’ Hochland 30 1933 433-42

Wagenknecht, Edward. A guide to Bernard Shaw. NY: Appleton, 1929. 127 pp

Walbrook, H. M. ‘The Shavian epic.’ English Review 53 1931 446-55

Walkley, Arthur B. Frames of mind. London: Grant Richards, 1899, 37-49: ‘Mr. Bernard Shaw’s plays’

Weaver, John V. A. ‘Poetry in Bernard Shaw.’ Bookman 67 1928 657-61 (examples from his prose)

Weiss, Aurelieu. ‘George Bernard Shaw.’ Viata Româneasc| 12 1921 362-78

Whitehead, George. Bernard Shaw explained: a critical exposition of the Shavian religion. London: Watts, 1925. 156 pp

Wilhelmsen, Leif J. ‘Fortalens betydning i Bernard Shaws produksjon.’ Edda 38 1938 449-56

Williams, Harold. Modern English writers: being a study of imaginative literature 1890-1914. 3rd ed. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1925, 257-67 (first publ. in 1918)

Williamson, Claude C. H. Writers of three centuries 1789-1914. London: Grant Richards, 1920, 381-90

Wilson, Edmund. ‘Bernard Shaw at eighty.’ Atlantic Monthly 161 1938 198-215; also in his The triple thinkers. NY: Harcourt, 1938, 165-96; repr. on pp 127-52 in Kronenberger and pp 101-15 in Otten; part repr. on pp 26-35 in Adams

Withington, Robert. ‘The sage of Dubdon: a critical note on G. B. Shaw.’ Sewanee Review 43 1935 224-29

Wood, Frederick T. ‘Individualism in religious thought in the plays of Ibsen and Bernard Shaw.’ Calcutta Review 52 1935 243-55; ‘The revolt against religion's traditionalism in the plays of Ibsen and Shaw.’ Calcutta Review 52 1935 289-301

Wood, Herbert G. Living issues in religious thought: from George Fox to Bertrand Russell. London: Allen & Unwin, 1924, 122-32: ‘G. Bernard Shaw and religion’; from Contemporary Review 123 1923 623-28

Zachrisson, Robert E. Modern engelsk världsåskådning i litteraturens spegel. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1928, 119-36: ‘Bernard Shaw: predikanten i narrkåpa och biälra’

Zucker, Irving. Le ‘Court Theatre’ (1904-1914) et l’évolution du théâtre anglais contemporaine. Paris: Presses Modernes, 1931, 24-31, 68-101, 133-45

TOP

Works About Specific Plays

Androcles and the Lion

Balmforth, Ramsden. The ethical and religious value of the drama. London: Allen & Unwin, 1925, 152-64: ‘Bernard Shaw’s Androcles and the Lion and the problem of Christianity versus militarism’

Lord, Daniel A. ‘Martyrs according to Bernard Shaw.’ Catholic World 100 1915 577-90 (attacks the play)

The Apple Cart

Chesterton, Gilbert K. Sidelights on new London and newer York, and other essays. NY: Dodd, 1932, 240-46: ‘Bernard Shaw and Breakages’

Arms and the Man

Bab, Julius. Nebenrollen: ein dramaturgischer Mikrokosmos. Berlin: Oesterheld, 1913, 121-30 (on Nicola)

Vedia y Mitre, Mariano de. ‘Nota preliminar.’ Pp 5-19 in Shaw. El héroe y sus hazañas. Buenos Aires: Cooperativa Editorial Limitada, 1920, 5-19

Yeats, W. B. Autobiographies: Reveries over Childhood and Youth and The Trembling of the Veil. London: Macmillan, 1926, 344-49 (on the first performance of the play)

Back to Methuselah

Balmforth, Ramsden. The ethical and religious value of the drama. London: Allen & Unwin, 1925, 165-80: ‘Bernard Shaw’s “metabiological” plays’

Baughan, E. A. ‘Back to Methuselah.’ Fortnightly Review 114 1923 827-34

Bloomfield, Paul. Imaginary worlds, or the evolution of Utopia. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1932, 220-36: ‘The year 31920 A.D.’

Chubb, Percival. ‘Bernard Shaw’s religion and its latest phase in Back to Methuselah.’ Standard 9 July 1922 1-7

Clutton-Brock, A. Essays on literature & life. NY: Macmillan, 1927, 182-89

Darlington, W. A. Literature in the theatre, and other essays. London: Chapman & Hall, 1925, 151-56

Eliot, T. S. ‘[London letter:] Mr. Bernard Shaw.’ Dial 71 1921 453-55; repr. on pp 48-50 in William Wasserstrom, ed. A Dial miscellany. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse UP, 1963 (discusses Creative Evolution)

Frank, Glenn. ‘The tide of affairs: weeding the garden of Eden.’ Century 102 1921 631-35

Gillet, Louis. ‘En écoutant Vive Mathusalem.’ Revue des Deux Mondes 18 1923 674-85

Morgan, Charles. ‘The coming race: letter to George Bernard Shaw.’ Review of Reviews 78 1923 438-42

Ryder, H. Osborne. ‘Back to Methuselah: a drama of personalism.’ Methodist Review 106 Jan 1923 70-77

Seldes, Gilbert. ‘Struldbrugs and Superman.’ Dial 71 1921 227-31

Caesar and Cleopatra

Albini, Ettore. Cronache teatrali 1891-1925. Ed. G. Bartolucci. Genoa: Teatro Stabile, 1972, 301-05 (1917 review)

Canfield, Mary C. Grotesques and other reflections. NY: Harper, 1927, 172-81 (1925 review)

Candida

Abascal, Luis. ‘Cándida de Shaw.’ Criterio 70 1929 313-34

Erskine, John. The delight of great books. Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1928, 277-94: ‘Candida’

Ogilvie, D. ‘Von Ibsens Nora zu Shaws Candida: ein Stück Entwicklung der Frauenfrage.’ Christengemeinschaft 7 1930 7-11

Captain Brassbound’s Conversion

Terry, J. E. Harold. ‘Captain Brassbound’s Conversion.’ Oxford and Cambridge Review 26 Dec 1912 132-37

Geneva

Brooks, Benjamin G. ‘Mr Shaw’s Geneva.’ Nineteenth Century and After 126 1939 449-57

Heartbreak House

Agate, James. Red letter nights: a survey of the post-Elizabethan drama in actual performance on the London stage, 1921-1943. NY: Blom, 1969 [c1944], 207-11 (1921 review)

McCarthy, Mary. ‘Theater chronicle: new sets for an old house.’ Partisan Review 5 1938 41-44; repr. as ‘Shaw and Chekhov’ on pp 39-45 in her Sights and spectacles 1937-1956. NY: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1956 and on pp 39-45 of her Theatre chronicles 1937-1962. NY: Farrar, Straus, 1963

John Bull’s Other Island

Collis, John S. Farewell to argument. London: Cassell, 1935, 11-23: ‘A symbol: Bernard Shaw and the Celtic twilight’

Major Barbara

Balmforth, Ramsden. The problem-play and its influence on modern thought and life. NY: Holt, 1928, 34-37

Man and Superman

Bland, Hubert. With the eyes of a man. London: T. Werner Laurie, 1905, 76-84: ‘Mr Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman’

Osma, J. M. de. ‘Variaciones sobre el tema de Don Juan.’ Hispania 15 1932 55-62

Pérez de Ayala, Ramón. ‘El Don Juan de Bernard Shaw.’ Máscaras 2 1919 284-309

Rockow, Lewis. Contemporary political thought in England. London: Leonard Parsons, 1925, 266-75 (stresses ‘Revolutionist’s Handbook’)

Roz, Firmin. ‘Les métamorphoses de Don Juan.’ Revue Hebdomadaire 1911 461-77

Mrs Warren’s Profession

Albini, Ettore. Cronache teatrali 1891-1925. Ed. G. Bartolucci. Genoa: Teatro Stabile, 1972, 245-50 (1913 review)

Beerbohm, Max. ‘Mr. Shaw’s profession.’ Shaw Review 5 1962 5-9 (1898 two-part review from the Saturday Review)

Laillet, H. ‘Bernard Shaw et son théâtre.’ Revue de Belgique 1912 718-27

Shaw, Mary. ‘My “immoral” play: the story of the first American production of Mrs. Warren’s Profession.’ McClure’s Magazine 38 1912 684-94

On the Rocks

O’Casey, Sean. Blasts and benedictions: articles and stories. Ed. Ronald Ayling. London: Macmillan, 1967, 195-200: ‘G.B.S. speaks out of the whirlwind’ (1934 review of Too True to be Good and On the Rocks)

Wood, Herbert G. ‘G.B.S. on the rocks.’ Contemporary Review 146 1934 58-65 (the play shows that his current beliefs have left him on the rocks)

Pygmalion

Albini, Ettore. Cronache teatrali 1891-1925. Ed. G. Bartolucci. Genoa: Teatro Stabile, 1972, 285-89 (1914 review)

Backlund, Alice M. ‘Pygmalion and Peregrine Pickle: forerunner of Eliza Doolittle.’ Saturday Review of Literature 20 Sep 1939 9, 21

Brandl, L. ‘Entstehungsgeschichtliches zu Bernard Shaws Pygmalion.’ Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift 18 1930 443-57

Marcel, Gabriel. ‘Pygmalion de Bernard Shaw.’ Nouvelle Revue Française 122 1923 618-19

Noyes, E. S. ‘A note on Peregrine Pickle and Pygmalion.’ Modern Language Notes 41 1926 327-30

Wainger, Bertrand M. ‘Henry Sweet—Shaw’s Pygmalion.’ Studies in Philology 27 1930 558-72

Saint Joan

Agate, James. Red letter nights: a survey of the post-Elizabethan drama in actual performance on the London stage, 1921-1943. NY: Blom, 1969 [c1944], 211-18 (1924 review)

Araquistain, Luis. La batalla teatral. Madrid: Mundo Latino, 1930, 183-90

Balmforth, Ramsden. The ethical and religious value of the drama. London: Allen & Unwin, 1925, 181-96: ‘Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan’

Blankenagel, John C. ‘Shaw’s Saint Joan and Schiller’s Jungfrau von Orleans.’ Journal of English and Germanic Philology 25 1926 379-92

Buckland, C. S. B. ‘Saint Joan.’ History 9 1925 273-87; corrected in History 10 1925 133-38 (for history teachers)

Cardozo, J. L. ‘Saint Joan once more.’ English Studies 9 1927 177-84

Castelli, Alberto. Scrittori inglesio contemporanei. Milan: Principato, 1939, 108-38: ‘Santa Giovanna’

D’Arcy, M. C. ‘Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan.’ Month 144 viii 1924 97-105

Eicker, H. D. ‘Tragische Gehalt von Shaws Saint Joan.’ Neueren Sprachen 33 1925 195-200

Eliot, T. S. [‘Crites’]. ‘A commentary: St. Joan.’ Criterion 3 1924 4-5

-----. ‘Books of the quarter.’ Criterion 4 1926 389-90; repr. as ‘Shaw, Robertson, and “The Maid”’ on pp 92-93 of Weintraub, S (seconds J. M. Robertson’s negative view)

Eulenberg, Herbert. Gegen Shaw: eine Streitschrift, mit einer Shaw-Parodie des Verfassers. Dresden: Reissner, 1925. 77 pp

Fox, A. W. ‘Saint Joan.’ Manchester Quarterly 2 1925 179-98

Gillet, Louis. ‘Une nouvelle Jeanne d’Arc anglaise.’ Revue des Deux Mondes 22 1924 687-97

Hevesi, Sándor. ‘Shaw, a megforditott Shakespeare.’ Színházi Élet 7 1936 8-11

Hollis, Christopher. ‘Some notes on Mr Shaw’s Saint Joan.’ Dublin Review 182 1928 177-88; repr. in SHAW 2 1982 155-69

Huizinga, Johan. ‘Shaw’s Heilige.’ De Gids 89 1925 110-20, 220-32, 419-31; translated as ‘Bernard Shaw’s Saint’ on pp 207-39 of his Men and ideas. NY: Meridian, 1959, 207-39

Jan, Eduard von. ‘Das literarische Bild der Jeanne d’Arc.’ Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie 76 1928 46-52, 172-80

Jung, Werner. La Jeanne d’Arc de Bernard Shaw. Brussels: Renaissance de l’Occident, 1925. 41 pp

Kooistra, J. ‘Saint Joan.’ English Studies 7 1925 11-18

Kreft, Bratko. Dramaturski fragmenti. Ljubljana: Kniñnica Mestnogo Gledališ…a, 1965, 69-75: ‘Bernard Shaw: Svet Ivana’ (1933 review by a playwright / critic)

Krog, Helge. Meninger om bøker og forfattere. Oslo: Aschehoug, 1929, 174-81: ‘Bernard Shaw: Jeanne d’Arc’; repr. in his Rent ut sagt. Oslo: Aschehoug, 1954, 174-81

Leisegang, H. ‘B. Shaws heilige Johanna.’ Neue Jahrbücher für Wissenschaft und Jugendbildung 1 1925 635-48

Liebermann, F. ‘Shaws Bildnis der Jungfrau von Orleans.’ Historische Zeitschrifte 133 i 1925 20-40

Lièvre, Pierre. ‘G. B. Shaw et son Jeanne d’Arc.’ Marges July 15 1925 231-37

Lord, Daniel A. ‘Martyrs according to Bernard Shaw.’ Catholic World 100 915 577-90; ‘George Bernard Shaw.’ Catholic World 102 1916 768-80, 103 1916 24-37

María y Campos, Armando. Presencias de teatro (crónicas 1934-1936). Mexico: Ediciones Populares, 1937, 285-94: ‘Santa Juana, de Shaw’

Mason, Michael. ‘Mr. Shaw, Shakespeare, and the secondary schoolboy.’ Nineteenth Century 103 1928 525-36 (observations prompted by an examination question on Saint Joan)

McCarthy, Lillah. Myself and my friends. NY: Dutton, 1933, 1-8, 55-70, 164-74, 201-11 and see index

Merian-Genast, Ernst. ‘Schillers Jungfrau von Orleans und Shaws Heilige Johanna.’ Pp 347-58 in Elfriede Neubuhr, ed. Geschichtsdrama. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchhandel, 1980 (1926 essay)

Mierow, Herbert E. ‘A modern Euripides.’ Sewanee Review 36 1928 24-26

Murry, John Middleton. ‘The two Joans.’ Adelphi 1 1924 1043-50

Palmer, John. ‘The productions of George Pitoëff.’ Fortnightly Review 118 1925 202-16

Pirandello, Luigi. ‘Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan.’ Shavian 2 viii 1964 6-12; repr. on pp 23-28 in Weintraub, S; pp 446-51 in Smith; & pp 1838-42 in Eric Bentley, ed. The great playwrights: twenty-five plays with commentaries by critics and scholars, II. NY: Doubleday, 1970 (from New York Times Sunday Magazine Jan 13 1924 7-12)

Praz, Mario. Cronache letterarie anglosassoni, I. Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1950, 160-64: ‘Santa Giovanna di GBS’ (from 1925 Fiera Letteraria)

Pribilla, M. S. J. ‘Die Jungfrau von Orleans eine protestantische Heilige-Theolog zu B. Shaw.’ Stimmen und Zeit 57 1926 241-59

Robertson, J. M. Mr Shaw and ‘The maid’. London: Cobden-Sanderson, 1926. 115 pp (highly critical analysis)

Rosenbach, E. ‘Shaw (Saint Joan) und Hebbel.’ Archiv 153 1928 232-35

Ruegg, A. ‘Bernard Shaw auf dem Wege nach Damaskus.’ Schweizer Rundschau 25 1925 158-67, 326-28, 464-73

Sarolea, Charles. ‘Has Mr Shaw understood Joan of Arc?’ English Review 43 1926 175-82; repr. on pp 94-101 in Weintraub, S

Terry, Altha E. Jeanne d’Arc in periodical literature, 1894-1929, with special reference to Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan: a bibliography. NY: Publs. of the Institute of French Studies, 1930. 127 pp

Van Doren, Carl. ‘Mark Twain and Bernard Shaw.’ Century 109 1925 705-10 (contrasts their treatments of Joan)

Van Kan, J. ‘Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan: an historical point of view.’ Fortnightly Review 124 1925 36-46

Weltzien, Erich. ‘Saint Joan als nationalpolitischer Bildungsstoff.’ Neueren Sprachen 42 1934 143-54 (Nazi-slanted interpretation)

Wyatt, Euphemia V. R. ‘Bernard Shaw and his Saint Joan.’ Catholic World 119 1924 196-205

The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet

Balmforth, Ramsden. The problem-play and its influence on modern thought and life. NY: Holt, 1928, 94-108

Gregory, Lady Augusta. Our Irish theatre: a chapter of autobiography. London: Putnam, 1914, 140-168 (describes the controversy over the play’s Dublin premier)

Joyce, James. ‘La battaglia fra Bernard Shaw e la censura.’ Piccolo della Sera, Sept 5 1909; translated in Ellsworth Mason & Richard Ellmann, eds. The critical writings of James Joyce. NY: Viking, 1959, 206-08 on the play

Price, William T. ‘Shaw’s technical method in The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet.’ American Playwright 3 March 15 1914 79-84

Tree, Viola. ‘The censorship of stage plays: another point of view.’ Nineteenth Century 67 1910 164-72 (the play is perhaps too religious rather than blasphemous)

The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles

Borges, Jorge L. ‘Las últimas comedias de Shaw: Demasiado cierto para ser bueno; El Bobalicón de las islas inesperadas.’ Sur (Argentina) 24 1936 127-30