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Introductory, Popular, and Laudatory Works

 

 

Adam, Ruth. What Shaw really said. London: Macdonald, 1966. 176 pp (‘What They Really Said’ series)

 

Arnold, Armin. G. B. Shaw. Berlin: Colloquium, 1965. 94 pp (introductory)

 

Baiwir, Albert. ‘The legacy of George Bernard Shaw.’ Revue des Langues Vivantes 17 1951 2-10

 

-----. ‘Nouvelle lumière sur G. B. Shaw.’ Revue des Langues Vivantes 17 1951 176-80

 

Balashov, P. ‘George Bernard Shaw—champion of the truth.’ Pp 26-40 in Twentieth century English: a Soviet view. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1982

 

Barrett, William. ‘A plausible Irishman.’ Partisan Review 24 1957 101-05

 

Bastable, Adolphus [pseud.]. ‘Our theatres in the nineteen-nineties.’ Shavian 8 ii 1997 11-17

 

Benedek, Marcell. Bernard Shaw. Budapest: Gondolat, 1963. 107 pp

 

Bentley, Eric. ‘Shaw at ninety.’ Atlantic Monthly 178 July 1946 109-15; ‘Shaw dead.’ Envoy: A Review of Literature and Art 1951, 8-12, repr. in his In search of theater. NY: Knopf, 1953, 251-55

 

Bloom, Harold. George Bernard Shaw. Broomall, PA: Chelsea House, 2000. 107 pp (research and study guide for high school students)

 

Borges, Jorge L. ‘For Bernard Shaw.’ Shaw Review 9 1966 52-55 (from his Other inquisitions 1937-1952)

 

Bridie, James. ‘Shaw as dramatist (including a surrealist life of G.B.S.).’ Pp 77-91 in Winsten

 

Brown, Ivor. Shaw in his time. London: Nelson, 1963. 212 pp (introductory)

 

Bullough, Geoffrey. ‘Bernard Shaw, the dramatist: a centenary tribute.’ Cairo Studies in English 1959 59-75

 

Cardigan, Robert. ‘The bearded ancient.’ Twentieth Century 3 1948 32-43

 

Carr, Pat M. Bernard Shaw. NY: Ungar, 1976. 167 pp (introductory)

 

Castelli, Alberto. Lettura di George Bernard Shaw. Milan: Società Editrice ‘Vita e Pensiero,’ 1945. 117 pp

 

Chauviré, Roger. ‘Bernard Shaw.’ Revue des Deux Mondes 23 1950 476-84

 

Clarke, Winifred. George Bernard Shaw: an appreciation and interpretation. Altrincham: John Sherratt, 1948. 39 pp

 

Coates, J. B. Leaders of modern thought. London: Longmans, Green, 1947, 23-39 (‘Essential English Library’ series)

 

Cookson, Tommy, ed. Shaw. London: Edward Arnold, 1972. 94 pp (‘The portrait series’; largely a play intended for schools)

 

Coolidge, Olivia. George Bernard Shaw. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968. 226 pp (illustrated biography for secondary students)

 

Dickmann, Enrique. El mensaje de Shaw al cumplir 94 años. Buenos Aires: Vanguardia, 1950. 31 pp

 

Dodderidge, Morris. ‘G. B. Shaw—the man, the legend, and the achievement.’ Letterature Moderne 1 1950 476-82

 

DuCann, C. G. L. The loves of George Bernard Shaw. NY: Funk & Wagnalls, 1963. 300 pp

 

Erichsen, Svend. Teater-strejflys. Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1945, 123-30: ‘Bernard Shaw: strejflys over hans personlighed og produktion’

 

Étienne, Fernand. George Bernard Shaw. Brussels: Desclée de Brouwer, 1958. 51 pp (in Dutch)

 

Evans, Judith. The politics and plays of Bernard Shaw. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2003. 215 pp (intended as a ‘readily accessible’ survey of all his works; incorporates ‘Shaw’s Fabian tracts and his political plays.’ Shavian 7 iii 1992 15-22)

 

Faggin, Giuseppe. ‘G. B. Shaw.’ Paideia 5 1950 289-96

 

Fechter, Paul. ‘George Bernard Shaw: aus dem Werk.’ Gestalter Unserer Zeit 2 1954 24-35

 

-----. George Bernard Shaw, vom 19. zum 20. Jahrhundert. Gütersloh: Bertelsmann, 1951. 77 pp

 

Fennel, Desmond. ‘George Bernard Shaw.’ Nuestro Tiempo 26 Aug 1956 42-62

 

Gallo, Blas R. Introducción al teatro de Bernard Shaw. Buenos Aires: Siglo Veinte, 1960 (not verified)

 

Hegedüs, Géza. G. B. Shaw világa. Budapest: Europa, 1971. 190 pp

 

Henderson, Archibald. ‘Where Shaw stands today.’ Shaw Bulletin no. 1 1951 1-6; ‘The decline and fall-off of the Shavian empire.’ Shaw Bulletin no. 4 1953 8-13

 

Hill, Eldon C. George Bernard Shaw. Boston: Twayne, 1978. 184 pp (introductory)

 

Jones, W. S. Handley. The priest and the siren and other literary studies. London: Epworth Pr., 1953, 44-60: ‘One of our conquerors’ (from London Quarterly and Holborn Review 1949 10-19, 136-45)

 

Krog, Helge. ‘Bernard Shaw.’ Norseman 4 1946 261-70 (translated into English)

 

-----. Meninger om bøker og forfattere. Oslo: Aschehoug, 1971, 102-11: ‘Bernard Shaw’ (1950 essay); Sant å si: artikler. Oslo: Aschehoug, 1956, 11-23: ‘Bernard Shaw’

 

Krohn, Paul G. ‘George Bernard Shaw.’ Deutschunterricht 9 1956 373-86

 

Laurence, Dan H. ‘“What’s your opinion, Mr. Shaw?”’ Library Chronicle of the University of Texas 8 1974 53-59 (some of his answers to newsmen)

 

Levinson, George. ‘Shaw and the limerick.’ Independent Shavian 30 1992 74-75

 

Llopis, José. Bernard Shaw. Barcelona: Afha Internacional, 1977. 124 pp (series: ‘El premio Nobel’)

 

Lupan, Radu. George Bernard Shaw. Bucharest: ESPLA, 1956

 

Lutter, Tibor. G. B. Shaw. Budapest: Müvelt Nép, 1952. 131 pp

 

Mackenzie, Norman, & Jeanne Mackenzie. The Fabians. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1977, 166-75: ‘The quintessence of Shaw’; see also index (English ed.: The first Fabians. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1977)

 

Mander, Gertrud. George Bernard Shaw. Velber bei Hannover: Friedrich, 1965. 136 pp

 

Mann, Thomas. ‘He was mankind’s friend.’ Listener 45 Jan 18 1951 98-99, 102; also in Yale Review 40 1951 412-20; repr. on pp 250-57 in Kronenberger

 

Martin, Kingsley. ‘G.B.S.’ Pp 23-38 in Joad (his influence and impact)

 

Miserocchi, Manlio. ‘Attraverso il centenario di G. B. Shaw e quello di O. Wilde.’ Nuova Antologia 92 1957 377-86

 

Monner Sans, José M. Panorama del nuevo teatro. Buenos Aires: Losada, 1942, 93-114: ‘George Bernard Shaw, satírico.’

 

Morgan, Margery M. Bernard Shaw. Windsor: Profile Books, 1982. 2 vols. (44, 45 pp)

 

Nucete Sarde, José. ‘Bernard Shaw: su teatro y su mejor personaje.’ Revista Nacional de Cultura (Caracas) 24 1962 21-33

 

O’Donovan, John. George Bernard Shaw. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1983. 155 pp (‘Gill’s Irish lives’)

 

Perdeck, A. Bernard Shaw. The Hague: Krauseman, 1962. 119 pp

 

Predan, Joñe. ‘G. B. Shaw.’ Mladinska Revija 6 1951 262-68

 

Ross, David. George Bernard Shaw. New Lanark: Geddes & Grosset, 2001. 187 pp (‘Irish Biographies’ series)

 

Russell, Bertrand. ‘George Bernard Shaw.’ Virginia Quarterly Review 27 1951 1-7

 

-----. Portraits from memory. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1956, 75-80: ‘Bernard Shaw, the admirable iconoclast’ (from Listener 50 Sep 3 1953)

 

Rypins, Stanley. ‘Bernard Shaw remembered.’ Virginia Quarterly Review 33 1957 80-92

 

Schmidt-Hidding, Wolfgang. Bernard Shaw: Leben, Persönlichkeit und Werke. Kevelaer: Butzon & Bercker, 1953. 31 pp

 

Seresia, Cécile. ‘G. B. Shaw.’ Revue Nouvelle 4 1951 356-65

 

Shenfield, Margaret. Bernard Shaw. London: Thames & Hudson, 1962. 144 pp (‘Pictorial Biography’ series)

 

Shiras, Mary. ‘G.B.S.: a profile.’ Chicago Review 7 1953 26-34

 

Strauss, E. George Bernard Shaw. London: Longmans, Green, 1950. 74 pp (‘intended mainly for foreign students’)

 

Stresau, Hermann. ‘George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950).’ Merkur 5 1951 1-12 (in German)

 

Ussher, Arland. Three great Irishmen: Shaw, Yeats, Joyce. London: Gollancz, 1952, 13-61: ‘Bernard Shaw: emperor and clown’

 

Ward, A. C. Bernard Shaw. New ed. Harlow: Longman for British Council, 1960. 60 pp (‘Writers and their work’ series)

 

Watson, George J. Drama: an introduction. NY: St. Martin’s Pr., 1983, 147-70: ‘Shaw and Brecht: “making us think”’ (147-57 on Shaw)

 

Williamson, Audrey. Bernard Shaw: man and artist. NY: Crowell-Collier, 1963. 224 pp (publ. in England as Bernard Shaw: man and writer)

 

-----. Theatre of two decades. London: Rockliff, 1951, 107-26 and see index

 

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