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Shaw and Other Countries

 

Shaw and Ireland

Shaw and North America

Shaw and Germanic Countries

Shaw and France, Italy, and Hispanic Countries

Shaw and Eastern European Countries

Shaw and Africa, Asia, and Australasia

 

 

 

Shaw and Ireland

 

(For Shaw’s early life in Ireland, see the Biography section)

(See also the entries under John Bull’s Other Island and O’Flaherty, V. C.)

 

Archer, Peter. ‘Shaw and the Irish question.’ SHAW 11 1991 119-29

 

Black, Martha F. Shaw and Joyce: ‘The last word in stolentelling’. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1995. 445 pp; probably incorporates ‘Joyce / Shaw disconnection.’ James Joyce Literary Supplement 7 i 1993 23-25 (Joyce’s borrowings from Shaw)

 

Brennan, Paul. ‘L’Irlande de Shaw.’ Pp 41-48 in Brennan

 

Dietrich, Richard F. ‘Shaw and Yeats: two Irishmen divided by a common language.’ SHAW 15 1995 65-84

 

Gibbs, A. M. Bernard Shaw: a life. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2005, 245-66: ‘Eternal Irishman’

 

Grene, Nicholas. ‘Shaw in Ireland: visitor or returning exile?’ SHAW 5 1985 45-62

 

-----. ‘Shaw in the Irish theatre: an unacknowledged presence.’ SHAW 14 1994 153-65

 

Holroyd, Michael. ‘G.B.S. and Ireland.’ Sewanee Review 84 1976 37-55

 

Hull, William. ‘Shaw on the Joyce he scarcely read.’ Shaw Bulletin no. 6 1954 16-20

 

Jordan, John. ‘Shaw, Wilde, Synge and Yeats: ideas, epigrams, blackberries and chassis.’ Pp 209-25 in Richard Kearney, ed. The Irish mind: exploring intellectual traditions. Dublin: Wolfhound Pr., 1985

 

Kosok, Heinz. ‘John Bull’s other ego: reactions to the stage Irishman in Anglo-Irish drama.’ Pp 19-33 in Richard Wall, ed. Medieval and modern Ireland. Gerrards Cross: Smythe, 1988

 

-----. ‘Two Irish perspectives on World War I: Bernard Shaw and Sean O’Casey.’ Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 2 ii 1996 17-29; also in Bernard Shaw Studies (Nagoya) 4 1999 1-25

 

Krause, David. The profane book of Irish comedy. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1982, 203-22: ‘The barbarous morals of Shaw and Carroll’

 

Laurence, Dan H. ‘Shaw’s War Issues for Irishmen.’ Irish Book 1 1960 75-77

 

Mesterházi, Márton. ‘George Bernard Shaw, az ír.’ Nagyvilág 46 2001 1292-1302

 

O’Flaherty, Gearóid. ‘George Bernard Shaw and Ireland.’ Pp 122-35 in Shaun Richards, ed. The Cambridge companion to twentieth-century Irish drama. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004

 

-----. ‘George Bernard Shaw and the Irish literary revival.’ Pp 33-42 in P. J. Mathews, ed. New voices in Irish criticism. Dublin: Four Courts Pr., 2000

 

O’Leary, Philip. ‘Lost tribesman or prodigal son? George Bernard Shaw and the Gaelic movement.’ Éire-Ireland 29 ii 1994 51-64

 

O’Neill, Michael J. ‘Some Shavian links with Dublin as recorded in the Holloway diaries.’ Shaw Review 2 viii 1959 2-7

 

Rabey, David I. British and Irish political drama in the twentieth century: implicating the audience. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1986, 28-41: ‘Kathleen ni Houlihan’s other island: Bernard Shaw, Sean O’Casey’

 

Rawson, Claude. ‘Killing the poor: an Anglo-Irish theme?’ Essays in Criticism 49 1999 101-31 (Swift, Wilde, and Shaw are featured)

 

Ritschel, Nelson O. ‘Shaw, Connolly, and the Irish Citizen Army.’ SHAW 27 2007 118-34

 

Schrank, Bernice. ‘World War I in the plays of Shaw, O’Casey and McGuiness.’ Études Irlandaises 17 ii 1992 29-36

 

Thomas, Sue. ‘George Bernard Shaw—Irish deserter?’ Lantern (Pretoria) 32 i 1982 14-23

 

Weintraub, Rodelle. ‘The Irish lady in Shaw’s plays.’ Shaw Review 23 1980 77-89

 

Weintraub, Stanley. ‘Bernard Shaw’s other Irelands: 1915-1919.’ English Literature in Transition 42 1999 433-42

 

-----. Shaw’s people: Victoria to Churchill. Univ. Park: Penn State UP, 1996, 94-123: ‘Uneasy friendship: Shaw and Yeats’ (from Yeats: An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies 1 1983 125-53); 124-41: ‘A respectful distance: James Joyce and his Dublin townsman Bernard Shaw’ (from Journal of Modern Literature 10 1983 125-53)

 

-----. The unexpected Shaw: biographical approaches to G.B.S. and his work. NY: Ungar, 1982, 158-72: ‘Brogue-shock: the evolution of an Irish patriot’ (first publ. as ‘The making of an Irish patriot: Bernard Shaw 1914-1918.’ Éire-Ireland 5 iv 1970 9-27)

 

White, William. ‘Irish antitheses: Shaw and Joyce.’ Shavian 2 iii 1961 24-34

 

Winkler, Elizabeth H. The clown in modern Anglo-Irish drama. Bern: Lang, 1977, 74-95

 

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Shaw and North America

 

Bucco, Martin. ‘Bernard Shaw in Sinclair Lewis.’ SHAW 21 2001 133-41

 

Dukore, Bernard F. ‘Shaw and American drama.’ SHAW 14 1994 127-43

 

Hugo, Leon H. ‘Shavian studies in North America: a glut on the market?’ Review 19 1997 1-21 (essay-review of six books on Shaw)

 

Laurence, Dan H. ‘“That awful country”: Shaw in America.’ SHAW 5 1985 279-97

 

Levinson, George. ‘H. L. Mencken on G. B. Shaw.’ Independent Shavian 29 1991 46-51

 

Mitchell, Breon. ‘Ezra Pound and G. B. Shaw: a long wordy war.’ James Joyce Quarterly 23 1986 127-36 (includes newly publ. letters)

 

Nethercot, Arthur. ‘What Shaw really thought of Americans.’ Shaw Review 3 ii 2-8

 

Peters, Margot. ‘Bernard F. Burgunder: collector of genius.’ SHAW 15 1995 169-84

 

Pfeiffer, John R. ‘Ray Bradbury’s Bernard Shaw.’ SHAW 17 1997 119-31

 

Pharand, Michel W. ‘“Almost wholly cerebral”: Richard Aldington on Bernard Shaw.’ SHAW 18 1998 93-100

 

Salih, Sabah A. ‘The New York Times and Arnold Daly’s production of Mrs. Warren’s Profession.’ Independent Shavian 26 1988 57-60

 

Weales, Gerald. ‘Shaw’s American inheritors.’ Journal of American Drama and Theatre 6 ii-iii 1994 1-11

 

Weintraub, Stanley. ‘Bernard Shaw and the American theatre.’ UNISA English Studies 29 ii 1991 36-42; repr. on pp 426-28 in Don B. Wilmeth & Tice L. Miller, ed. Cambridge guide to American theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1993

 

-----. ‘A high wind to Jamaica.’ SHAW 5 1985 37-44

 

-----. Shaw’s people: Victoria to Churchill. Univ. Park: Penn State UP, 1996, 73-85: ‘Apostate apostle: H. L. Mencken as Shavophile and Shavophobe’ (from Educational Theatre Journal 12 1960 184-90)

 

Weiss, Samuel A. ‘Beneath and above the belt: Shaw, Anonymous, and William Carlos Williams.’ Independent Shavian 30 1992 3-10

 

Wellwarth, George E. ‘Mrs. Warren comes to America, or the blue-noses, the politicians, and the procurers.’ Shaw Review 2 viii 1959 8-16

 

Wingate, Phillip J. ‘Mencken, Mark Twain, and Shaw.’ Menckeniana 92 1984 10-14

 

-----. ‘Mencken, Shaw and their two Catholic sisters.’ Menckeniana 124 1992 1-4

 

 

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Shaw and Germanic Countries

 

Bellmann, Werner. ‘Wort und Wörtlichkeit: zu einer Shaw-Übersetzung und einem Essay von Annemarie und Heinrich Böll.’ Euphorion 1998 iv 483-91

 

Cuomo, Glenn R. ‘“Saint Joan before the Cannibals”: George Bernard Shaw in the Third Reich.’ German Studies Review 16 1993 435-61

 

Geduld, Harry M. ‘Bernard Shaw and Adolf Hitler.’ Shaw Review 4 i 1961 11-20

 

Joyce, Steven. ‘George Bernard Shaw and Siegfried Trebitsch: a prolegomenon to translation study.’ Independent Shavian 28 1990 18-27

 

-----. Transformations and texts: G. B. Shaw’s Buoyant Billions. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1992; incorporates ‘Translation and the shape of the text: Siegfried Trebitsch’s Zu viel Geld and George Bernard Shaw’s Buoyant Billions.’ Seminar 27 1991 136-52

 

Knoll, Elisabeth. Produktive Missverständnisse: George Bernard Shaw und sein deutscher Übersetzer Siegfried Trebitsch. Heidelberg: Winter, 1992. 264 pp

 

Lindblad, Ishrat. ‘Bernard Shaw and Scandinavia.’ Shaw Review 20 1977 2-16

 

-----. ‘A good holiday: Shaw visits Sweden.’ SHAW 5 1985 25-35 (focuses on his visit with Strindberg)

 

Matlaw, Myron. ‘Shaw’s adaptation of Frau Gittas Sühne.’ Pp vii-xvii in Shaw. Jitta’s Atonement: Shaw’s adaptation and the translation of Trebitsch’s original. Ann Arbor, MI: Monograph Publs., 1979

 

Roll-Hansen, Diderik. ‘G.B.S. in Norway.’ Shaw Review 20 1977 17-29

 

Schweiger, Hannes. ‘Bernard Shaw’s contributions to the culture and politics of fin de siècle Vienna.’ SHAW 25 2005 135-46

 

Strauss, Felix F. ‘Shaw’s appeal to mid-century Austrian intellectuals.’ Shaw Bulletin no. 5 1954 15-17

 

Trebitsch, Siegfried. Bernard Shaw dem Neunzigjähren. Zürich: Artemis, 1946. 44 pp

 

Wahlund, Per E. ‘Bernard Shaw in Sweden.’ Pp 111-18 in Conolly

 

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Shaw and France, Italy, and Hispanic Countries

 

Pharand, Michel W. Bernard Shaw and the French. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2000, 289-324: ‘Shaw in print: a chronological bibliography of works by and about Bernard Shaw in French and on Shaw and French culture and literature’

 

Rodríguez-Seda, Asela C. ‘Shaw in the Hispanic world: a bibliography.’ Modern Drama 14 1971 335-39

 

 

Adams, Elsie B. ‘In pursuit of art: Shaw’s Italian tours of 1891 and 1894.’ SHAW 5 1985 13-24

 

Amalric, Jean C. ‘Bernard Shaw en France depuis 1960.’ Littératures de Langues Européennes au Tournant du Siècle: Lectures d’Aujourd’hui A4 1982? 1-7

 

-----. Studies in Bernard Shaw. Montpellier: Université Paul Valéry, 1992, 155-68: ‘Shaw, Hamon, and Rémy de Gourmont.’ (from SHAW 4 1984 129-37); 169-89: ‘A playwright’s supertrips: Shaw’s visits to France’ (from SHAW 5 1985 67-80)

 

Barzun, Jacques. ‘Shaw and Rousseau: no paradox.’ Shaw Bulletin 1 viii 1955 1-6

 

-----. ‘Shaw versus Stendhal.’ Partisan Review 51 1984 613-19

 

Berst, Charles A. ‘Passion at Lake Maggiore: Shaw, Molly Tompkins, and Italy, 1921-1950.’ SHAW 5 1985 81-114

 

Cheever, Leonard A. ‘Jorge Luis Borges and George Bernard Shaw.’ Publications of the Arkansas Philological Association 6 i 1980 52-64

 

Chiappini, Julio O. Borges y Bernard Shaw. Rosario, Arg.: Zeus Editora, 1994. 34 pp

 

Galliou, Patrick. ‘Traddutore, Traditore? Candida sur les scènes françaises.’ Pp 139-58 in Brennan

 

Grindea, Miron. ‘G.B.S. and France.’ Adam International Review 255-56 1956 1-14

 

Hamilton, Craig. ‘Constructing a cultural icon: nomos and Shaw’s Saint Joan in Paris.’ Modern Drama 43 2000 359-75

 

Iosifescu, Silvian. Reîntîlniri cu [Anatole] France Õi Shaw. Bucharest: Eminescu, 1978. 287 pp (includes English summary)

 

Leary, Daniel J. ‘A note on Borges and Shaw.’ Independent Shavian 41 2003 5-7

 

López Mozo, Jerónimo. ‘¿Dónde estás, Bernard Shaw, dónde estás?’ Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos 673-74 2006 195-98 (current reception in Spain)

 

Pharand, Michel W. Bernard Shaw and the French. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2000. 412 pp

 

Rébora, Piero. ‘Ricordi culturali italiani di Bernard Shaw.’ English Miscellany 4 1953 179-86

 

Rodríguez de Laguna, Asela. Shaw en el mundo hispánico. Rio Piedras: Univ. of Puerto Rico Pr., 1981. 153 pp

 

Starr, William T. ‘Romain Rolland and George Bernard Shaw.’ Shaw Bulletin 2 iii 1-6

 

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Shaw and Eastern European Countries

 

Anikst, A. ‘George Bernard Shaw.’ Pp 11-25 in Twentieth century English: a Soviet view. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1982

 

Arnot, R. Page. ‘Shaw and the Soviet Union.’ Labour Monthly 38 1956 421-28

 

Auchincloss, Katharine L. ‘Shaw and the commissars: the Lenin years, 1917-1924.’ Shaw Review 6 1963 51-59

 

Berlogea, Ileana. G. B. Shaw în România. Bucharest: Meridiane, 1968. 135 pp

 

Cash, William F. ‘What they really wrote about G.B.S.: Shaw and Pearson’s “Retreat to Moscow.”’ Journal of Modern Literature 13 1986 211-24 (revision of a chapter in Pearson’s biography)

 

Evans, T. F. ‘Myopia or Utopia? Shaw in Russia.’ SHAW 5 1985 125-45

 

Gilenson, Boris. ‘New contributions to Soviet studies of Shaw’s works.’ Soviet Literature 1975 vii 162-66

 

Kalogjera, Damir. ‘A political game: Shaw in Yugoslavia.’ SHAW 5 1985 115-20

 

Kárpáti, Aurél. Tegnaptól máig: válogatott irodalmi tanulmányok. Budapest: Szépirodalmi Könyvkiadó, 1961, 405-17: ‘Elözetes utószó G.B.S.-ról’

 

Kocztur, Gizella. ‘A bibliography of works written on Bernard Shaw.’ Acta Litteraria Academiae Scientarum Hungaricae 8 1966 463-76 (stresses Hungarian material)

 

-----. ‘A Hungarian view of George Bernard Shaw’s works.’ California Shavian 6 i 1965 4-18

 

Nickson, Richard. ‘GBS and the KGB.’ Shavian 7 11 1992 14-16

 

Obraztsova, Anna. ‘Bernard Shaw and Russian culture.’ Pp 43-59 in Conolly

 

Salovac, Ivo. G. B. Shaw u Hrvatskoj: odjeci dramskog stvaranja Georgea Bernarda Shawa na hrvatskim pozornicama u dvadesetom stoljecu [G. B. Shaw in Croatia: reception of the dramatic art of George Bernard Shaw on Croatian stages in the twentieth century]. Zagreb: Vlast Nakl., 2003. 270 pp

 

Szlety½ski, Henryk. Szkice o teatrze. Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Artystyczne i Filmowe, 1979, 241-46: ‘GBS jako krytyk teatralny’ (1968 essay); 247-60: ‘Rola teatru polskiego wobec Bernarda Shawa’ (1973 essay)

 

Tait, A. L. ‘George Bernard Shaw and the USSR.’ Irish Slavonic Studies 5 1984 83-113

 

Terlecki, Tymon. ‘Kronika kultwralna: Shaw w Polsce.’ Kultura 10 Oct 1951 127-36

 

Weisert, John J. ‘Shaw in Central Europe before 1914.’ Pp 273-302 in Philip A. Shelley & Arthur O. Lewis, eds. Anglo-German and American-German Crosscurrents, II. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Pr., 1962

 

Weiss, Aurélieu. ‘Bernard Shaw’s legal battles in Hungary.’ Angol Filológiai Tanulmányok 20 1989 5-14 (Hungarian Studies in English)

 

Weiss, Samuel A. ‘Shaw, Arms and the Man, and the Bulgarians.’ SHAW 10 1990 27-44

 

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Shaw and Africa, Asia, and Australasia

 

Albert, Sidney P., with Junko Matoba. ‘Shaking the earth: Shaw in Japan.’ SHAW 5 1985 239-70

 

Chen, Wendi. ‘A Fabian socialist in socialist China.’ SHAW 23 2003 154-66

 

Dass, Veena N. ‘Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan, Mohan Rakesh’s One Day in Ashadha and Girish Karnad’s Tughlaq as history plays.’ Pp 116-25 in Pandey

 

Dukore, Bernard F. ‘George Bernard Shaw on Japan, dateline 1934.’ Asian Affairs 19 i 1988 45-48

 

Fayad, Shafik. ‘Bernard Shaw in Egypt and the Arab world.’ Pp 89-92 in Conolly

 

Gray, Piers. ‘Hong Kong, Shanghai, the Great Wall: Bernard Shaw in China.’ SHAW 5 1985 211-38

 

Grene, Nicholas. ‘Shaw, Egypt and the Empire.’ Pp 201-07 in Mary Massoud, ed. Literary inter-relations: Ireland, Egypt, and the Far East. Gerrards Cross: Smythe, 1996

 

Halawany, Mona el- . ‘The image of Egypt in G. B. Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra.’ Pp 125-40 in Hoda Gindi, ed. Images of Egypt in twentieth century literature. Cairo: Dept. of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, Univ. of Cairo, 1991

 

Hugo, Leon H. ‘Upset in a “suntrap”: Shaw in South Africa.’ SHAW 5 1985 147-79; ‘Britons, Boers, and Blacks: Bernard Shaw on South Africa.’ SHAW 11 1991 79-95

 

Hung, Josephine H. ‘The Candida character in Kuan Han-ching’s The Riverside Pavilion.’ Tamkang Review 2-3 1971-72 295-308

 

Keuneman, Katrine. ‘GBS in New Zealand (I): the interested visitor.’ Independent Shavian 22 1984 33-43; ‘GBS in New Zealand, II: the ideologist.’ Independent Shavian 23 1985 40-48

 

Lawson, David. ‘Shaw in Chinese scholarship.’ Shavian 7 vi 1993-94 10-11

 

Li, Kay. Bernard Shaw and China: cross-cultural encounters. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2007. 285 pp; chapter six incorporates ‘Globalization vs. nationalism—Shaw’s passage to Shanghai, China.’ SHAW 22 2002 149-70

 

Martin, Murray S. ‘“If I showed my true feelings”: Shaw in New Zealand.’ SHAW 5 1985 299-317

 

Mutalik-Desai, A. A. ‘GBS and drama in Kannada.’ Pp 109-15 in Pandey

 

Nathan, Rhoda B. ‘A Fabian down under: Shaw’s plays in the Antipodes.’ SHAW 14 1994 167-76

 

Nourallah, Riad A. ‘George Bernard Shaw on Egypt and Palestine.’ Damascus University Journal for the Humanities 6 no. 23 1990 11-38

 

Rao, Valli. ‘Seeking the unknowable: Shaw in India.’ SHAW 5 1985 181-209

 

Sachithanandan, V. ‘The influence of Bernard Shaw on M. Varadarajan: a case study.’ Pp 169-75 in G. Nageswara Rao, ed. The laurel bough: essays presented in honour of Professor M. V. Rama Sarma. Bombay: Blackie, 169-75 (Varadarajan is an Indian novelist)

 

Salama, Mohammad R. ‘The aesthetics of Pygmalion in G. B. Shaw and Tawfiq al-Hakim: a study of transcendence and decadence.’ Journal of Arabic Literature 31 2000 222-38

 

Tien Han. ‘Bernard Shaw, master of realist drama (a Chinese Communist perspective).’ Shaw Bulletin 2 iii 1957 11-15

 

Wazzan, Adnan M. Essays in comparative literature: an Islamic perspective. London: Ithaca Pr., 113-31: ‘Shaw’s and al-Hakim’s Pygmalion: an analogy’

 

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