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PART TWO: WORKS ABOUT SPECIFIC PLAYS: A through C

 

 

The Admirable Bashville

 

Holroyd, Michael. Bernard Shaw, volume II: 1898-1918: The pursuit of power. NY: Random House, 1989, 62-66

 

Paczesny, Reinhard. ‘Haut’se, haut’se, immer auf die Schnauze, oder das Drama des Boxers in Boxerdramen.’ Sprache im Technischen Zeitalter 92 1984 252-60 (part compares the play with Odets’s Golden Boy)

 

 

Androcles and the Lion

 

Abbott, Anthony S. Shaw and Christianity. NY: Seabury Pr., 1965, 141-56: ‘The triumph of laughter: Androcles and the Lion

 

Berst, Charles A. Bernard Shaw and the art of drama. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Pr., 1973, 175-95: ‘Androcles and the Lion: Christianity in parable’

 

Brown, John Mason. Seeing more things. NY: McGraw-Hill, 1948, 179-87 (on a performance of the play)

 

Cardullo, Bert. ‘The artistic evolvement of Androcles and the Lion.’ Studia Neophilologica 57 1985 187-90

 

Dukore, Bernard F. Bernard Shaw, playwright: aspects of Shavian drama. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Pr., 1973, 130-35

 

Eastman, Fred. Christ in the drama: a study of the influence of Christ on the drama of England and America. NY: Macmillan, 1947, 44-54

 

Holroyd, Michael. Bernard Shaw, volume III: 1918-1951: The lure of fantasy. NY: Random House, 1991, 149-61

 

Meisel, Martin. Shaw and the nineteenth-century theater. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1963, 324-48: ‘Christian melodrama and Christmas pantomime’

 

Nelson, Raymond S. ‘Wisdom and power in Androcles and the Lion.’ Yearbook of English Studies 2 1972 192-204

 

O’Hara, Michael M. ‘Federal Theatre’s Androcles and the Lion: Shaw in black and white.’ SHAW 19 1999 129-48

 

Stone, Susan C. ‘Unity in diversity: Androcles and the Lion.’ Shaw Review 21 1978 92-99

 

Turco, Alfred. ‘Reflections on Androcles—self, fable, and history.’ Independent Shavian 27 1989 51-59 (issue marked vol. 3)

 

Valency, Maurice. The cart and the trumpet: the plays of George Bernard Shaw. NY: Oxford UP, 1973, 302-12

 

Ward, A. C. ‘Introduction to Androcles and the Lion,’ ‘Notes on the preface . . .,’ and ‘Notes on Androcles and the Lion.’ Pp 161-208 in Shaw. Androcles and the Lion. London: Longmans, Green, 1957

 

 

Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress

 

Bertolini, John A. The playwrighting self of Bernard Shaw. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1991, 160-63

 

Gainor, J. Ellen. Shaw’s daughters: dramatic and narrative constructions of gender. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Pr., 1991, 110-14

 

Grendon, Felix. ‘Shaw’s Annajanska.’ Shavian no. 3 1954 26-29

 

 

The Apple Cart

 

Altrincham, Lord. ‘Reflections on The Apple Cart.’ National and English Review 151 July 1958 18-23

 

Donaghy, Henry J. ‘The Apple Cart: a Chestertonian play.’ Shaw Review 11 1968 104-08

 

Dukore, Bernard F. Bernard Shaw, playwright: aspects of Shavian drama. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Pr., 1973, 185-92

 

Einsohn, Howard I. ‘The intelligent reader’s guide to The Apple Cart.’ SHAW 9 1989 145-60 (its kinship with The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism)

 

Holroyd, Michael. Bernard Shaw, volume III: 1918-1951: The lure of fantasy. NY: Random House, 1991, 149-61

 

Hugo, Leon H.. Bernard Shaw, playwright and preacher. London: Methuen, 1971, 211-17

 

Kamer, Hansruedi. Künstlerische und politische Extravaganz im Spätwerk Shaws. Bern: Francke, 1973, 86-96: ‘Demokratische Verantwortung: The Apple Cart (1929)’

 

McDowell, Frederick P. W. ‘The eternal against the expedient: structure and theme in Shaw’s The Apple Cart.’ Modern Drama 2 1959 99-113

 

Miller, C. Brook. ‘Late capitalism and the United States in The Apple Cart.’ SHAW 26 2006 118-34

 

Morgan, Margery M. The Shavian playground: an exploration of the art of George Bernard Shaw. London: Methuen, 1972, 303-15 (incorporates ‘Two varieties of political drama: The Apple Cart and Granville Barker’s His Majesty.’ Shavian 2 vi 1962 9-16)

 

Peters, Margot. ‘[Discovery:] Shaw vs. Stella: the battle of The Apple Cart.’ Harvard Magazine March-April 1984 56A-H (suppressed passages from the correspondence pertaining to their dispute over the play)

 

Sengupta, Gautam. ‘A protest and a quest: a study of Shaw’s political vision in The Apple Cart.’ Journal of the Department of English, University of Calcutta 26 i 1998-99 49-60

 

Smith, Warren S. Bishop of everywhere: Bernard Shaw and the Life Force. Univ. Park: Penn State UP, 1982, 138-49: ‘The failure of governments: The Apple Cart, On the Rocks, and Geneva’ (from Shaw Review 21 1978 20-30)

 

Walker, Roy. ‘Theatre Royal.’ Twentieth Century 153 1953 466-70 (Noël Coward, playing Magnus in this production, was strongly influenced by Shaw)

 

Watson, Barbara B. ‘The theater of love and the theater of politics in The Apple Cart.’ SHAW 7 1987 207-20

 

Weintraub, Stanley. ‘King Magnus and King Minus: a play and a playlet.’ SHAW 27 2007 11-27 (the play and The King, the Constitution and the Lady)

 

Wellwarth, George. ‘Gattie’s glass of water; or, the origins of Breakages, Ltd.’ Shaw Review 11 1968 99-103; ‘ “Gattie’s glass of water”: addendum.’ Shaw Review 12 1969 28-29

 

Zabrouski, Monica A., & Robert P. Kirschmann. ‘The ungendered will and the Shavian Superman.’ SHAW 26 2006 79-99 (94-96 on King Magnus)

 

 

Arms and the Man   (see also ‘Shaw’s Screenplays’)

 

Alexander, Nigel. A critical commentary on Bernard Shaw’s Arms and the Man and Pygmalion. London: Macmillan, 1968. 85 pp

 

Amalric, Jean C. ‘Modèle actantiel et investissement thématique: quelques remarques sur Arms and the Man.Cahiers Victoriens & Édouardiens 9-10 1979 87-94; translated as ‘Actantial schema and thematic investment: some remarks on Arms and the Man’ on pp 79-87 in his Studies in Bernard Shaw. Montpellier: Université Paul Valéry, 1992

 

-----. ‘Satire et comique plaisants et déplaisants: Mrs. Warren’s Profession et Arms and the Man.’ Pp 28-47 in Aspects du comique dans la littérature anglaise. Paris: Didier, 1965 (Études Anglaises 25 1966 supplement); translated as ‘Satire and comedy, pleasant and unpleasant: Mrs. Warren’s Profession and Arms and the Man’ on pp 59-78 in his Studies in Bernard Shaw. Montpellier: Université Paul Valéry, 1992

 

Bala, Suman. ‘Arms and the Man: the naked reality of love and war.’ Pp 63-81 in Pandey

 

Berst, Charles A. ‘The action of Shaw’s settings and props.’ SHAW 3 1983 41-65 (44-47 on the play)

 

-----. Bernard Shaw and the art of drama. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Pr., 1973, 20-38: ‘Arms and the Man: the seriousness of comedy’ (from ‘Romance and reality in Arms and the Man.Modern Language Quarterly 27 1966 197-211)

 

Blaicher, Günther. ‘Mortifikation: ein vernachlässigter Aspekt der Komödientheorie.’ Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 13 1988 139-53 (146-48 on the play)

 

Borkat, Roberta F. S. ‘Swift, Shaw, and the idealistic swain.’ English Studies 61 1980 498-506 (the play and Swift’s poems)

 

Carpenter, Charles A. Bernard Shaw & the art of destroying ideals: the early plays. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Pr., 1969, 89-98

 

Chung, Kwangsook. ‘Reading war, history, and historicity in Shaw’s Arms and the Man. Journal of Modern British and American Drama (Seoul) 16 i 2003 55-76

 

Crompton, Louis. ‘Introduction.’ Pp ix-xxxiii in Shaw. Arms and the Man. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1969

 

-----. Shaw the dramatist. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Pr., 1969, 13-28

 

Denninghaus, Friedhelm. Die dramatische Konzeption George Bernard Shaws: Untersuchungen zur Struktur der Bühnengesellschaft und zum Aufbau der Figuren in den Stücken Shaws. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1971, 65-85: ‘Der Konflikte gesellschaftlicher Gruppen und der soziale Determinismus in Shaws Komödien’

 

Dukore, Bernard F. ‘The ablest man in Bulgaria.’ SHAW 22 2002 68-82 (Nicola)

 

-----. Bernard Shaw, playwright: aspects of Shavian drama. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Pr., 1973, 156-67

 

-----, ed. Bernard Shaw’s Arms and the Man: a composite production book. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1982. 168 pp (introduction, xvii-xxxiii)

 

Elliott, Robert C. ‘Shaw’s Captain Bluntschli: a latter-day Falstaff.’ Modern Language Notes 67 1952 461-64

 

Farooqui, Khalida S. ‘Reflections upon war and humour in G. B. Shaw’s Arms and the Man.Ariel (Dept. Of English, Univ. of Sind) 1 1972 26-32

 

Gibbs, A. M. The art and mind of Shaw: essays in criticism. NY: St. Martin’s Pr., 1983, 69-79: ‘Romance and anti-romance in Arms and the Man

 

-----. Bernard Shaw: a life. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2005, 170-74

 

Gobin, Pierre B. ‘La comédie militariste (1890-1930): l’évolution des techniques scéniques et des genres littéraires.’ Pp 767-79 in Béla Köpeczi et al., eds. Actes du VIIIe congrès de l’Association Internationale de Littérature Comparée, I. Stuttgart: Kunst und Wissen, 1980

 

Goldsworthy, Vesna. Inventing Ruritania: the imperialism of the imagination. New Haven, CT: Yale

UP, 1998, 113-16: ‘Bernard Shaw’s Bulgaria

 

Greiner, Norbert. Idealism und Realism im Frühwerk George Bernard Shaws: die Bedeutung und Funktion der Begriffe in den politischen, ästhetischen und dramatischen Schriften. Heidelberg: Winter, 1977, 279-84: ‘Everyman als Held: Arms and the Man

 

Higgs, Calvin T. ‘Shaw’s use of Vergil’s Aeneid in Arms and the Man.Shaw Review 19 1976 2-16

 

Holroyd, Michael. Bernard Shaw, volume I: 1856-1898: The search for love. NY: Random House, 1988, 297-306

 

Innes, Christopher. Modern British drama: the twentieth century. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002, 13-54: ‘Defining modernism: George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)’ (pp. 26-30 on the play)

 

Jenckes, Norma. ‘Introduction.’ Pp xiii-xxiii in Shaw. Arms and the Man: a facsimile of the holograph manuscript. NY: Garland, 1981

 

Kaler, Anne K. ‘Conventions of chocolate as weapons of war and peace in Shaw’s Arms and the Man, Straus’s The Chocolate Soldier and in the MGM film version, The Chocolate Soldier.’ Pp 47-58 in Alex Szogyi, ed. Chocolate, food of the gods. Westport, CT: Greenwood Pr., 1997

 

King, Dixie. ‘Bernard Shaw and William Gillette.’ English Literature in Transition 27 1984 239-41 (the play and Held By the Enemy)

 

Kiberd, Declan. Irish classics. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2001, 340-59: ‘George Bernard Shaw: Arms and the Man

 

Lee, J. Scott. ‘Comic unity in Arms and the Man.SHAW 6 1986 101-22

 

Mills, John A. Language and laughter: comic diction in the plays of Bernard Shaw. Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Pr., 1969, 64-71

 

Morgan, Margery M. The Shavian playground: an exploration of the art of George Bernard Shaw. London: Methuen, 1972, 47-55

 

Newton, K. M. In defence of literary interpretation: theory and practice. London: Macmillan, 1986, 83-114: ‘Shaw and tragedy’ (102-08 on the play)

 

O’Hara, Michael. ‘Arms and the Man and the Federal Theatre: love and war in troubled times.’ SHAW 14 1994 145-52

 

Perrine, Laurence. ‘Shaw’s Arms and the Man.Explicator 15 1957 item 54

 

Quinn, Michael. ‘Form and intention: a negative view of Arms and the Man.Critical Quarterly 5 1963 148-54; repr. on pp 179-87 in Henry Popkin, ed. Arms and the Man. NY: Avon Books, 1967

 

Rodríguez-Seda, Asela. ‘Arms and the Man y [Nemesio R. Canales’s] El héroe galopante: la desmitificación del heroísmo.’ Latin American Theatre Review 9 1976 63-67

 

Saffron, John. ‘Caesar and Bluntschli: Shaw’s view of heroism.’ Shavian 3 viii 1967 10-14

 

Sauer, David K. ‘“Only a woman” in Arms and the Man.SHAW 15 1995 151-66

 

Sawyer, Paul. ‘The last line of Arms and the Man.SHAW 6 1986 123-25 (not ‘What a man! What a man!’ or ‘What a man! Is he a man?’ but ‘What a man! Is he a man!’)

 

Styan, J. L. The elements of drama. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1960, 169-74

 

-----. Modern drama in theory and practice, I: Realism and naturalism. London: Cambridge UP, 1981, 57-70: ‘Shaw’s contribution to realism’

 

Todorova, Maria. ‘The Balkans: from discovery to invention.’ Slavic Review 53 1994 453-82 (471-74 on the play)

 

Turco, Alfred. Shaw’s moral vision: the self and salvation. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1976, 75-82

 

Valency, Maurice. The cart and the trumpet: the plays of George Bernard Shaw. NY: Oxford UP, 1973, 104-17

 

Weintraub, Rodelle. ‘“Oh, the dreaming, the dreaming”: Arms and the Man.’ Pp 31-40 in Rusinko

 

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

 

West, Alick. George Bernard Shaw: ‘a good man fallen among Fabians’. NY: International, 1950, 82-88

 

West, E. J. ‘“Arma virumque” Shaw did not sing.’ Colorado Quarterly 1 1953 267-80; repr. on pp 161-75 in Henry Popkin, ed. Arms and the Man. NY: Avon Books, 1967

 

 

Augustus Does His Bit

 

Regan, Arthur E. ‘The fantastic reality of Bernard Shaw: a look at Augustus and Too True.’ Shaw Review 11 1968 2-10

 

 

Back to Methuselah

 

Adams, Elsie B. Bernard Shaw and the aesthetes. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 1971, 137-47 (on ‘As Far as Thought Can Reach’)

 

Aquino, John. ‘Shaw and C. S. Lewis’s Space Trilogy.’ Shaw Review 18 1975 28-32

 

Armstrong, Daniel. ‘Back to Methuselah: Shaw’s debt to Swift.’ Cahiers Victoriens & Édouardiens 21 1985 63-71

 

Arnold, Armin. Die Literatur des Expressionismus: sprachliche und thematische Quellen. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1966, 107-13: ‘Der neue Mensch als Methusalem: G. B. Shaws Langleber’

 

Bailey, J. O. ‘Shaw’s Life Force and science fiction.’ Shaw Review 16 1973 48-58 (stresses the play)

 

Barnes, John. ‘Tropics of a desirable oxymoron: the radical superman in Back to Methuselah.’ SHAW 17 1997 155-64

 

Black, Martha F. ‘Back to Methuselah: a “grand precurser” [intentional sic] to Finnegans Wake.’ SHAW 23 2003 7-16

 

Bose, Tirthankar. ‘How far does Shaw’s thought reach in Back to Methuselah?’ Uttar Pradesh Studies in English (Agra) 1 1980 70-75

 

Brown, David. ‘Shaw’s Genesis.’ Explicator 50 1991 31-32

 

Brustein, Robert. The theatre of revolt. London: Methuen, 1965, 195-204

 

Christopher, J. R. ‘Methuselah, out of Heinlein by Shaw.’ Shaw Review 16 1973 79-88

 

Cole, Susan A. ‘The evolutionary fantasy: Shaw and Utopian fiction.’ Shaw Review 16 1973 89-97

 

Conrad, Peter. The history of English literature: one indivisible, unending book. London: Dent, 1985, 639-45

 

Crawford, Fred D. ‘Shaw among the Houyhnhnms.’ Shaw Review 19 1976 102-19 (parts IV and V)

 

Crompton, Louis. Shaw the dramatist. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Pr., 1969, 169-92

 

Denninghaus, Friedhelm. Die dramatische Konzeption George Bernard Shaws: Untersuchungen zur Struktur der Bühnengesellschaft und zum Aufbau der Figuren in den Stücken Shaws. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1971, 166-74: ‘Der utopische Kern des sozialen determinischen Dramas’

 

Dukore, Bernard F. Bernard Shaw, playwright: aspects of Shavian drama. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Pr., 1973, 110-17, 253-57, 266-68

 

Frank, Joseph. ‘Soph v. Shaw.’ Shaw Review 19 1976 93-94, 99 (part IV’s affinities with Oedipus Rex)

 

Furlong, William B. GBS / GKC: Shaw and Chesterton: the metaphysical jesters. Univ. Park: Penn State UP, 1970, 153-74: ‘A new glimpse of Methuselah’ (on the discarded scene about ‘Immenso Champernoon’)

 

Gahan, Peter. Shaw shadows: rereading the texts of Bernard Shaw. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2004, 228-63: ‘The image and the word’ (reworks his ‘Back to Methuselah: an exercise of imagination.’ SHAW 17 1997 215-38); see also 128-31

 

Geduld, Harry M. ‘Back to Methuselah and the Birmingham Repertory Company.’ Modern Drama 2 1959 115-29

 

-----. ‘Back to Methuselah: textual problems in Shaw.’ Pp 208-18 in Ronald Gottesman & Scott Bennett, eds. Art and error: modern textual editing. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1970 (derived from ‘The textual problem in Shaw.’ Shaw Review 5 1962 54-60)

 

-----. ‘The lineage of Lilith.’ Shaw Review 7 1964 58-61

 

-----. ‘Place and treatment of persons in Back to Methuselah.’ California Shavian 5 v 1964 1-12

 

-----. ‘The premiere of the Pentateuch.’ California Shavian 4 i 1963 1-17

 

-----. ‘Shaw’s philosophy as expounded in Back to Methuselah.’ California Shavian 5 v 1964 11-19 (from ‘Shaw’s philosophy and cosmology.’ California Shavian 1 iv 1960 1-8)

 

-----. ‘Sources and influences of Shaw’s Pentateuch.’ California Shavian 5 iii 1964 1-10

 

Gibbs, A. M. Bernard Shaw: a life. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2005, 364-68 and see index

 

Gordon, David J. Bernard Shaw and the comic sublime. NY: St. Martin’s Pr., 1990, 163-70

 

Hamilton, Robert. ‘The philosophy of Bernard Shaw: a study of Back to Methuselah.’ London Quarterly and Holborn Review 170 1945 333-41

 

Holroyd, Michael. Bernard Shaw, volume III: 1918-1951: The lure of fantasy. NY: Random House, 1991, 32-59

 

Horton, Merrill. ‘Bergsonian laughter in Bernard Shaw’s Back to Methuselah.’ Analecta Husserliana 56 1998 71-76

 

Hull, Elizabeth A. ‘On his shoulders: Shaw’s influence on [Arthur C.] Clarke’s Childhood’s End.’ SHAW 17 1997 107-17 (especially Lilith’s final exhortation)

 

Hummert, Paul A. Bernard Shaw’s Marxian romance. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Pr., 1973, 135-47

 

Indick, Ben P. ‘Shaw’s science fiction on the boards.’ SHAW 17 1997 19-37 (stresses the play)

 

Innes, Christopher. ‘Utopian apocalypses: Shaw, war, and H. G. Wells.’ SHAW 23 2003 37-46

 

Jameson, Fredric. Archaeologies of the future: the desire called utopia and other science fictions.

NY: Verso, 2005, 328-44: ‘Longevity as class struggle’ (from pp. 24-42 in George E. Slusser et al., eds.

Immortal engines: life extension and immortality in science fiction and fantasy. Athens: Univ. of

Georgia Pr., 1996)

 

Knepper, Bill G. ‘Shaw’s debt to [Lytton’s] The Coming Race.’ Journal of Modern Literature 1 1971 339-53

 

Knörrich, Otto. ‘G. B. Shaw—Mystiker der Ratio.’ Neueren Sprachen 3 1961 110-20

 

Lawrence, Kenneth. ‘Bernard Shaw: the career of the Life Force.’ Modern Drama 15 1972 130-46 (Man and Superman, Back to Methuselah, and The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles as thesis dramas)

 

Leary, Daniel J. ‘The ends of childhood: eschatology in Shaw and [Arthur C.] Clarke.’ Shaw Review 16 1973 67-78

 

-----, & Richard Foster. ‘Adam and Eve: evolving archetypes in Back to Methuselah.’ Shaw Review 4 ii 1961 12-23; repr. on pp 105-18 in Adams

 

Lenker, Lagretta T. ‘Pre-Oedipal Shaw: “It’s always the mother.”’ SHAW 26 2006 36-57 (some stress on the play)

 

-----. ‘Why? versus why not?: Potentialities of aging in Shaw’s Back to Methuselah.’ Pp 47-59  in Sara M. Deats & Lenker, eds. Aging and identity: a humanities perspective. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999

 

McDowell, Frederick P. W. ‘Some reflections on Back to Methuselah in performance.’ SHAW 8 1988 153-62

 

Meisel, Martin. Shaw and the nineteenth-century theater. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1963, 412-22

 

Miller, Tom. ‘Forward from Fiore: a reconsideration of Back to Methuselah.’ Shavian 8 v 1998-99 12-15

 

Morgan, Margery M. The Shavian playground: an exploration of the art of George Bernard Shaw. London: Methuen, 1972, 221-38: ‘Back to Methuselah: the poet and the city’ (expanded from Essays and Studies 13 1960 82-98, which is repr. on pp 130-42 in Kaufmann)

 

Nathan, Rhoda B. ‘All about Eve: testing the Miltonic formula.’ SHAW 23 2003 65-74

 

Nelson, Raymond S. ‘Back to Methuselah: Shaw’s modern Bible.’ Costerus 5 1972 117-23

 

Pagliaro, Harold E. Relations between the sexes in the plays of George Bernard Shaw. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Pr., 2004, 168-71, 194-98

 

Peart, Barbara. ‘Shelley and Shaw’s prose.’ Shaw Review 15 1972 39-45 (stresses the preface to the play)

 

Peereboom, J. J. ‘Shaw’s own Utopia.’ Pp 198-210 in Dominic Baker-Smith & C. C. Barfoot, eds. Between dream and nature: essays on Utopia and Dystopia. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1987

 

Philomène de los Reyes, Marie. The biblical theme in modern drama. Quezon City: Philippines UP, 1978, 95-99: ‘Back to Methuselah: discussion in prose’; see also 27-31

 

Rankin, H. D. ‘Plato and Bernard Shaw: their ideal communities.’ Hermathena 93 1959 71-77 (on ‘As Far As Thought Can Reach’)

 

Rao, Valli. ‘Back to Methuselah: a Blakean interpretation.’ SHAW 1 1981 141-81

 

Reitemeier, Rüdiger. ‘Sündenfall und Übermensch in G. B. Shaws Back to Methuselah.’ Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift 16 1966 65-76; repr. on pp 461-76 in Otten

 

Robinson, David. ‘The development of Shaw’s teacher-hero.’ Iowa State Journal of Research 52 1977 261-69

 

Roppen, Georg. Evolution and poetic belief. Oslo: Oslo Univ. Pr., 1956, 368-402: ‘Back to Methuselah and forward to Utopia’

 

Rostand, Jean. ‘Étude sur G.-B. Shaw et sa métabiologie.’ Pp 7-15 in Shaw. Retour à Mathusalem: Pentateuque Métabiologique. Paris: Aubier, 1959

 

Roston, Murray. Biblical drama in England from the Middle Ages to the present day. London: Faber & Faber, 1968, 257-64: ‘Shavian wit’ (the play as a departure from the norm of biblical drama)

 

Shippey, Tom. ‘Skeptical speculation and Back to Methuselah.’ SHAW 17 1997 199-213 

 

Slusser, George. ‘Last men and first women: the dynamics of life extension in Shaw and Heinlein.’ SHAW 17 1997 133-53

 

Smith, Warren S. Bishop of everywhere: Bernard Shaw and the Life Force. Univ. Park: Penn State UP, 1982, 108-18 (incorporates ‘Serendipity or Life Force? The Darwinians, Teilhard de Chardin and Back to Methuselah.’ Teilhard Review 14 i 1979 2-22)

 

-----. ‘Future shock and discouragement: The Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman.’ Shaw Review 18 1975 22-27

 

Sparks, Julie A. ‘Cavemen in Eden? Bernard Shaw and Mark Twain offer radical revisions of Genesis.’ SHAW 21 2001 107-32

 

-----. ‘Playwrights’ progress: the evolution of the play cycle, from Shaw’s ‘Pentateuch’ to [Tony Kushner’s] Angels in America.’ SHAW 25 2005 179-200

 

-----. ‘Shaw for the Utopians, apek for the anti-Utopians.’ SHAW 17 1997 165-83 (the play and R.U.R.)

 

Spiel, Hilde. ‘Shaw und die Frauen: Methusalem zwischen Gefühl und Sinnlichkeit.’ Monat 7 Nov 1954 113-28

 

Stone-Blackburn, Susan C. ‘Biblical myth Shavianized.’ Modern Drama 18 1975 153-63

 

-----. ‘Science and spirituality in Back to Methuselah and Last and First Men.’ SHAW 17 1997 185-98

 

-----. ‘Whatever happened to Shaw’s mother-genius portrait?’ pp 130-42 in Weintraub, R

 

Tanzy, Eugene. ‘Contrasting views of man and the evolutionary process: Back to Methuselah and Childhood’s End.’ Pp 172-95 in Joseph D. Olander & Martin Greenberg, eds. Arthur C. Clarke. NY: Taplinger, 1977

 

Tippett, Michael. ‘Back to Methuselah and “The Ice Break.”’ Shaw Review 21 1978 100-103 (Tippett notes his debt to the play)

 

Valderry, Carmen. ‘Arte e immortalidad en el teatro de Bernard Shaw.’ Arbor 434 1982 107-14

 

Valency, Maurice. The cart and the trumpet: the plays of George Bernard Shaw. NY: Oxford UP, 1973, 349-68

 

Weintraub, Stanley. ‘Bernard Shaw’s other Irelands: 1915-1919.’ English Literature in Transition 42 1999 433-42 (on O’Flaherty, V.C. and ‘The Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman’)

 

-----. Journey to heartbreak: the crucible years of Bernard Shaw 1914-1918. NY: Weybright & Talley, 1971, 293-308

 

Whitman, Robert F. Shaw and the play of ideas. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1977, 257-67

 

Wisenthal, J. L. The marriage of contraries: Bernard Shaw’s middle plays. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1974, 193-217

 

Woodbridge, Homer. George Bernard Shaw: creative artist. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1963, 109-15

 

Yorks, Samuel. The evolution of Bernard Shaw. Washington: UP of America, 1981, 158-69

 

 

Buoyant Billions

 

Carpenter, Charles A. Dramatists and the bomb: American and British playwrights confront the Nuclear Age, 1945-1964. Westport, CT: Greenwood Pr., 1999, 55-60: ‘Shaw’s reactions to the birth of the Atomic Age’ (from SHAW 18 1998 173-79)

 

Dubost, Thierry. ‘Les voies de la vérité dans Milliards flottants.’ Pp 99-118 in Brennan

 

Gilkison, Cari. ‘Zen and the art of Shaw.’ Shavian 9 i 2000 10-11

 

Hummert, Paul A. Bernard Shaw’s Marxian romance. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Pr., 1973, 204-09

 

Joyce, Steven. Transformations and texts: G. B. Shaw’s Buoyant Billions. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1992. 135 pp (incorporates ‘The ice age cometh: a major emendation of Buoyant Billions in critical perspective.’ SHAW 7 1987 279-99 and ‘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)

 

-----. ‘The worldbetterers: philanthropists in George Bernard Shaw’s Buoyant Billions and Thomas Bernhard’s Der Weltverbesserer.’ Comparatist 15 1991 78-85

 

Li, Kay. Bernard Shaw and China: cross-cultural encounters. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2007,  38-44: ‘Shaw and Sir Robert Ho Tung: hybridization and cultural infusion’ (from ‘Hong Kong in Buoyant Billions: the exotic in Bernard Shaw.’ SHAW 15 1995 57-62)

 

McDowell, Frederick P. W. ‘The world, God, and world bettering: Shaw’s Buoyant Billions.’ Boston University Studies in English 3 1957 167-76

 

Nickson, Richard. ‘The world betterer: Shav versus Shav.’ Shaw Review 2 ix 1959 39-44; repr. in Independent Shavian 20 1982 9-16

 

 

Caesar and Cleopatra  (see also ‘Shaw’s Screenplays’)

 

Adams, Elsie B. ‘Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra: decadence barely averted.’ Shaw Review 18 1975 79-82

 

Austin, Don. ‘Dramatic structure in Caesar and Cleopatra.’ California Shavian 3 v 1962 unpaged

 

Bentley, Eric. A century of hero-worship: a study of the idea of heroism in Carlyle and Nietzsche, with notes on other hero-worshippers of modern times. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott, 1944, 183-201: ‘Bernard Shaw, Caesar, and Stalin’

 

Berst, Charles A. ‘The action of Shaw’s settings and props.’ SHAW 3 1983 41-65 (53-59 on the play)

 

-----. Bernard Shaw and the art of drama. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Pr., 1973, 75-95: ‘Caesar and Cleopatra: an anatomy of greatness’ (from ‘The anatomy of greatness in Caesar and Cleopatra.’ Journal of English and Germanic Philology 68 1969 74-91)

 

Bertolini, John A. The playwrighting self of Bernard Shaw. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1991, 9-26: ‘Caesar and Cleopatra: the heroic self’ (from ‘Shaw’s ironic view of Caesar.’ Twentieth Century Literature 27 1981 331-42)

 

Bielecka, Malgorzata. G. B. Shaw’s unconventional hero in Three Plays for Puritans. Suffolk: anima publishing, 2006. 71 pp [not yet examined]

 

Bonerandi, Joseph. ‘Nietzsche et Bernard Shaw, commenteurs de Shakespeare.’ Pp 427-42 in Jean P. Fenaux, ed. Jules César de William Shakespeare et l’honneur. Paris: Marketing, 1979

 

Brainerd, Barron, & Victoria Neufeldt. ‘On Marcus’ methods for the analysis of the strategy of a play.’ Poetics 10 1974 31-74 (the play is one of four examples)

 

Brooks, Harold F. ‘Shavian sources in the notes to “Queen Mab.”’ Shaw Review 20 1977 83-84

 

Carpenter, Charles A. Bernard Shaw & the art of destroying ideals: the early plays. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Pr., 1969, 168-91

 

Couchman, Gordon W. This our Caesar: a study of Bernard Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra. The Hague: Mouton, 1973. 183 pp (incorporates ‘Shaw, Caesar, and the critics.’ Speech Monographs 23 1956 262-71; ‘Here was a Caesar: Shaw’s comedy today.’ PMLA 72 1957 272-85;‘Comic catharsis in Caesar and Cleopatra.’ Shaw Review 3 i 1960 11-14; and ‘The first playbill of Caesar: Shaw’s list of authorities.’ Shaw Review 8 1970 79-82); for further treatment of the comparison between Shakespeare’s play and Shaw’s see his ‘Antony and Cleopatra and the subjective convention.’ PMLA 76 1961 420-25

 

Crompton, Louis. Shaw the dramatist. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Pr., 1969, 59-73

 

Deans, Marjorie. Meeting at the sphinx: Gabriel Pascal’s production of Bernard Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra. London: MacDonald, 1946. 114 pp

 

Dukore, Bernard F. Bernard Shaw, playwright: aspects of Shavian drama. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Pr., 1973, 177-85 (from ‘“Too much of a good thing”? Structural features of Caesar and Cleopatra.’ Educational Theatre Journal 25 1973 193-98)

 

Gainor, J. Ellen. Shaw’s daughters: dramatic and narrative constructions of gender. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Pr., 1991, 213-19

 

Greiner, Norbert. Idealism und Realism im Frühwerk George Bernard Shaws: die Bedeutung und Funktion der Begriffe in den politischen, ästhetischen und dramatischen Schriften. Heidelberg: Winter, 1977, 284-96: ‘Der natural leader als Held in The Man of Destiny und Caesar and Cleopatra’ (291-96 on the play)

 

Grene, Nicholas. Bernard Shaw: a critical view. London: Macmillan, 1984, 44-52

 

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

 

Holroyd, Michael. Bernard Shaw, volume II: 1898-1918: The pursuit of power. NY: Random House, 1989, 14-20

 

Horzyca, Wilam. O dramacie. Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Artystyczne i Filmowe, 1969, 214-18: ‘Lepsze nió Shakespeare.’ (1947 essay on the play)

 

Hugo, Leon H.. Bernard Shaw, playwright and preacher. London: Methuen, 1971, 101-17

 

Hummert, Paul A. Bernard Shaw’s Marxian romance. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Pr., 1973, 105-10

 

King, Annie P. ‘Shakespeare’s Shavian Cleopatra.’ SHAW 27 2007 165-74

 

Larson, Gale K. ‘Caesar and Cleopatra: the making of a history play.’ Shaw Review 14 1971 73-89

 

-----. ‘Introduction.’ Pp vii-xxiv in Shaw. Caesar and Cleopatra. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1974

 

Leary, Daniel J. ‘The moral dialectic in Caesar and Cleopatra.’ Shaw Review 5 1962 42-53

 

Lenker, Lagretta T., & Valerie B. Lipscomb. ‘Reflections of the aging Caesar: drama as cultural perspective.’ Journal of Aging and Identity 7 2002 275-86 (focuses on Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and Shaw’s character)

 

Loon Seong Yun, Robin. ‘Rewriting Shakespeare and Englishness: George Bernard Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra.’ Pp 227-43 in Andrew Benjamin et al., eds. Postcolonial cultures and literatures: modernity and the (un) Commonwealth. NY: Lang, 2002

 

Mason, Michael. ‘Caesar and Cleopatra: a Shavian exercise in both hero worship and belittlement.’ Humanities Association Review 25 1974 1-10

 

Maurino, Ferdinando. ‘And the ides failed.’ Arlington Quarterly 2 1969 50-56

 

Meisel, Martin. ‘Cleopatra and “The Flight into Egypt.”’ Shaw Review 7 1964 62-63 (Sphinx scene echoes a Merson painting)

 

Müller, Wolfgang G. ‘George Bernard Shaw and Shakespeare: an intertextual analysis of Caesar and Cleopatra.’ Pp 99-114 in Jürgen Kamm, ed. Twentieth-century theatre and drama in English: Festschrift for Heinz Kosok on the occasion of his 65th Birthday. Trier: Wissenschaftliche Verlag, 1999

 

Otten, Kurt. ‘George Bernard Shaw: Caesar and Cleopatra.’ Pp 347-61 in Heinz Kosok, ed. Das englische Drama im 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts: Interpretationen. Berlin: Schmidt, 1976

 

Pagliaro, Harold E. Relations between the sexes in the plays of George Bernard Shaw. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Pr., 2004, 181-89

 

Petroviƒ, Mirjana. ‘Stilske odlike i znaenja knjiñevnih mesta u Šoovom Cesaru i Kleopatri.’ Mostovi (Pljevlja) 13 1982 39-45

 

Reardon, Joan. ‘Caesar and Cleopatra and the commedia dell’arte.’ Shaw Review 14 1971 120-36

 

Reinert, Otto. ‘Old history and new: anachronism in Caesar and Cleopatra.’ Modern Drama 3 1960 37-41; see also ‘Comment.’ Pp 222-28 in Reinert, ed. Modern Drama: alternate edition. Boston: Little, Brown, 1966

 

Relich, Mario. ‘Shaw, Carlyle and the sphinx.’ Pp 84-97 in Bernhard Kerber, ed. Geschichte als Paradigma: zur Reflexion des Historischen in der Kunst. Bonn: Habelt, 1982

 

Richmond-Garza, Elizabeth M. ‘“Like a woman rising from a tomb”: Salomé, Cleopatra and Victorian Egypt.’ Pp 217-33 in Krystyna Kujawi½ska Courtney & John M. Mercer, eds. The globalization of Shakespeare in the nineteenth century. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Pr., 2003

 

Robson, E. W., & M. M. Robson. Bernard Shaw among the innocents. London: Sydneyan Society, 1946. 31 pp

 

Roy, R. N. George Bernard Shaw’s historical plays. Delhi: Macmillan, 1976, 24-43

 

Saffron, John. ‘Caesar and Bluntschli: Shaw’s view of heroism.’ Shavian 3 viii 1967 10-14

 

Saunders, M. Sean. ‘From metropolis to “impossible edges”: Shaw’s imperial abjects.’ SHAW 22 2002 99-115 (in this play and Captain Brassbound’s Conversion)

 

Studencki, W»adys»aw. Szkice literackie: wielcy i mali. Opole: Prace Opolskiego Towarzystwa Przyjaciól Nauk, 1967, 3-46: ‘Kleopatra VII’ (literary versions, including Shaw’s)

 

Tetzeli von Rosador, Kurt. Das englische Geschichtsdrama seit Shaw. Heidelberg: Winter, 1976, 125-60 (135-45 on the play)

 

Valency, Maurice. The cart and the trumpet: the plays of George Bernard Shaw. NY: Oxford UP, 1973, 171-77

 

Vesonder, Timothy G. ‘Shaw’s Caesar and the mythic hero.’ Shaw Review 21 1978 72-79 (Wagner’s Siegfried)

 

Vitoux, Pierre. ‘Le César de Mommsen et le César de G.-B. Shaw.’ Pp 347-54 in R. Chevallier, ed. Présence de César. Paris: Belles Lettres, 1985

 

-----. ‘Shaw and “the Mommsenite view of Caesar.”’ Cahiers Victoriens & Édouardiens 9-10 1979 95-106

 

Ward, A. C. ‘Introduction’ and ‘Notes.’ Pp 135-78 in Shaw. Caesar and Cleopatra: A History. London: Longmans, Green, 1960

 

Weintraub, Stanley. ‘Caesar and Cleopatra—a Melbourne-Victorian dimension.’ Shavian 6 vi 1988 6-8

 

-----. The unexpected Shaw: biographical approaches to G.B.S. and his work. NY: Ungar, 1982, 111-23: ‘Shaw’s Mommsenite Caesar’ (first publ. on pp 257-72 in Philip A. Shelley & Arthur O. Lewis, eds. Anglo-German and American-German crosscurrents, II. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Pr., 1962)

 

Whiting, George W. ‘The Cleopatra rug scene: another source.’ Shaw Review 3 i 1960 15-17

 

Whitman, Robert F. Shaw and the play of ideas. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1977, 201-10

 

Wisenthal, J. L. ‘Introduction.’ Pp xiii-xxiii in Shaw. The Man of Destiny & Caesar and Cleopatra:  facsimiles of the holograph manuscripts. NY: Garland, 1981

 

-----. ‘Shaw and Ra: religion and some history plays.’ SHAW 1 1981 45-56 (stresses the play)

 

-----. Shaw’s sense of history. Oxford: Clarendon Pr., 1988, 58-62 and see index

 

 

Candida

 

Adams, Elsie B. Bernard Shaw and the aesthetes. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 1971, 24-30, 107-12

 

-----. ‘Bernard Shaw’s pre-Raphaelite drama.’ PMLA 81 1966 428-38; retorts and surrejoinders between Richard Nickson and Adams: PMLA 84 1969 597-607

 

Adler, Jacob H. ‘Ibsen, Shaw and Candida.’ Journal of English and Germanic Philology 59 1960 50-58; repr. on pp 258-67 in Stephen S. Stanton, ed. A casebook on Candida. NY: Crowell, 1962

 

Adler, Thomas P. ‘Candida as a “Mystery.”’ SHAW 2 1982 13-15

 

Bergman, Herbert. ‘Comedy in Candida.’ Shavian 4 1972 161-69

 

Berst, Charles A. ‘The action of Shaw’s settings and props.’ SHAW 3 1983 41-65 (47-53 on the play)

 

-----. Bernard Shaw and the art of drama. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Pr., 1973, 39-74: ‘Candida: the poetry of characterization’

 

-----. ‘The craft of Candida.’ College Literature 1 1974 157-73

 

Cardullo, Bert. Dramatic considerations: essays in criticism, 1977-1987. NY: Lang, 1991, 153-64: ‘The mystery of Candida’ (repr. from SHAW 6 1986 91-100)

 

Carpenter, Charles A. Bernard Shaw & the art of destroying ideals: the early plays. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Pr., 1969, 98-123

 

Crompton, Louis. Shaw the dramatist. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Pr., 1969, 29-44

 

Dervin, Daniel. Bernard Shaw: a psychological study. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 1975, 238-44 (Candida compared to Ann in Man and Superman)

 

Doan, William. ‘Candida: the eye on duty.’ SHAW 22 2002 131-47 (artistic images)

 

Dukore, Bernard F. Bernard Shaw, playwright: aspects of Shavian drama. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Pr., 1973, 53-62

 

Finney, Gail. Women in modern drama: Freud, feminism, and European theater at the turn of the century. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1989, 187-206: ‘The New Woman as madonna: Shaw’s Candida

 

Freedman, Morris. ‘Reading drama.’ Colorado Quarterly 7 1960 368-78 (the play is a central example in an argument for close reading)

 

Gahan, Peter. Shaw shadows: rereading the texts of Bernard Shaw. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2004, 192-213

 

Gainor, J. Ellen. Shaw’s daughters: dramatic and narrative constructions of gender. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Pr., 1991, 25-32

 

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

 

Ganz, Arthur. George Bernard Shaw. London: Macmillan, 1983, 104-15

 

Gibbs, A. M. The art and mind of Shaw: essays in criticism. NY: St. Martin’s Pr., 1983, 80-89: ‘The case against Candida

 

Gilkes, A. N. ‘Candour about Candida.’ Fortnightly 171 1952 122-27

 

Greiner, Norbert. Idealism und Realism im Frühwerk George Bernard Shaws: die Bedeutung und Funktion der Begriffe in den politischen, ästhetischen und dramatischen Schriften. Heidelberg: Winter, 1977, 209-30: ‘Candida: konventionelle Formen der Opposition und dialektische Umkehrung idealistischer Tätigkeitsbereiche’

 

Holroyd, Michael. Bernard Shaw, volume I: 1856-1898: The search for love. NY: Random House, 1988, 314-25

 

Holt, Charles L. ‘Candida: the music of ideas.’ Shaw Review 9 1966 2-14

 

Hugo, Leon H.. Bernard Shaw, playwright and preacher. London: Methuen, 1971, 94-101

 

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

 

King, Carlyle. ‘The rhetoric of Candida.’ Modern Drama 2 1959 71-83; repr. on pp 243-58 in Stephen S. Stanton, ed. A casebook on Candida. NY: Crowell, 1962

 

Kohl, Norbert H. Bernard Shaws viktorianisches Erbe. Heidelberg: Winter, 1992, 197-205

 

Kutzsch, Gerhard. Der Fall Candida: eine kritische Studie über George Bernard Shaw. Leipzig: Koehler & Amelang, 1941. 124 pp

 

Lauter, Paul. ‘Candida and Pygmalion: Shaw’s subversion of stereotypes.’ Shaw Review 3 iii 1960 14-19

 

Lazenby, Walter. ‘Love and “vitality” in Candida.’ Modern Drama 20 1977 1-19

 

Lucas, John. ‘Dickens and Shaw: women and marriage in David Copperfield and Candida.’ Shaw Review 22 1979 13-22

 

Miller, Ronald R. ‘O’Neill’s Servitude, Shaw’s Candida, and the comic vision.’ Pp 157-68 in Karelisa V. Hartigan, ed. Text and presentation: the University of Florida Department of Classics Comparative Drama Conference papers, volume VIII. Lanham, MD: UP of America, 1988

 

Mills, John A. Language and laughter: comic diction in the plays of Bernard Shaw. Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Pr., 1969, 30-37, 74-79

 

Moore, James Mavor. ‘Why “James Mavor” Morell?’ Shaw Review 23 1980 48-51

 

Morgan, Margery M. The Shavian playground: an exploration of the art of George Bernard Shaw. London: Methuen, 1972, 64-82: ‘The virgin mother’

 

Nathan, Rhoda B. ‘Candida and Exiles: the Shaw-Joyce connection.’ Pp 97-103 in Diana A. Ben-Merre & Maureen Murphy, eds. James Joyce and his contemporaries. NY: Greenwood Pr., 1989; repr. in Independent Shavian 29 1991 3-11

 

-----. ‘A clue to Candida’s secret?’ Times Literary Supplement 5163 March 15 2002 14-15; repr. in Independent Shavian 40 2002 51-54 (a letter has come to light)

 

Nelson, Raymond S. ‘Introduction.’ Pp vii-xxiii in Shaw. Candida: A Mystery. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1973

 

-----. ‘Shaw’s pre-Raphaelite play.’ Pre-Raphaelite Review 1 i 1977 89-94

 

Nethercot, Arthur. Men and supermen: the Shavian portrait gallery. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1954, 7-17: ‘The truth about Candida’ (revised from PMLA 64 1949 639-47)

 

-----. ‘Who was Eugene Marchbanks?’ Shaw Review 15 1972 2-20

 

Otten, Terry. ‘Candida and Henry Higgins: Shaw’s mentors to the human spirit.’ Discourse 11 1968 312-16

 

Pagliaro, Harold E. Relations between the sexes in the plays of George Bernard Shaw. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Pr., 2004, 102-11 (incorporates part of ‘Truncated love in Candida and Heartbreak House.’ SHAW 24 2004 204-14)

 

Peart, Barbara. ‘De Quincey and Marchbanks.’ Shaw Review 17 1974 139-40

 

Peters, Sally. Bernard Shaw: the ascent of the Superman. New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 1996, 163-66 (Marchbanks as homosexual)

 

Silver, Arnold J. Bernard Shaw: the darker side. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 1982, 79-115: ‘Candida: home truths’

 

Squarzina, Luigi. De Dioniso a Brecht: pensiero teatrale e azione scenica. Bologna: Mulino, 1988, 217-29: ‘La commedia preraffaellita di Shaw’ (1980 essay)

 

Smith, J. Percy. ‘Introduction.’ Pp xiii-xxii in Shaw. Candida and How He Lied to Her Husband: facsimiles of the holograph manuscripts. NY: Garland, 1981

 

Stafford, Tony. ‘“The end of the hearth and home”: the deconstructing fireplace in Shaw’s early plays.’ Independent Shavian 44 2006 17-30 (23-30 on the play)

 

Stanton, Stephen S., ed. A casebook on Candida. NY: Crowell, 1962. 292 pp (text, Shaw statements, excerpts from reviews and criticisms, two reprinted articles)

 

Valency, Maurice. The cart and the trumpet: the plays of George Bernard Shaw. NY: Oxford UP, 1973, 118-35

 

Wanquet, Eileen. ‘Qui mène le jeu? Étude sémiotique de Candida de G. B. Shaw.’ Alizes: Revue Angliciste de la Réunion 2-3 1991-92 19-32

 

Watson, Barbara B. A Shavian guide to the intelligent woman. London: Chatto & Windus, 1964, 64-68 and see index

 

Wellens, Oskar. ‘Candida in French (1907).’ Shavian 7 vii 1995 6-11

 

West, Alick. George Bernard Shaw: ‘a good man fallen among Fabians’. NY: International, 1950, 104-13

 

White, Patrick. ‘Candida: Bernard Shaw’s Chaucerian drama.’ SHAW 12 1992 213-28

 

Whitman, Robert F. Shaw and the play of ideas. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1977, 195-201

 

Williams, Tennessee. ‘Candida: a college essay.’ Shaw Review 20 1977 60-62

 

Wittman, Robert. Candida; or, what Shaw really meant. Hicksville, NY: Exposition Pr., 1974. 111 pp (amateurish Freudian approach)

 

Woodfield, James. ‘Shaw’s Candida: a comedy.’ English Studies in Canada 16 1990 433-52

 

Yarrison, Betsy C. ‘Marchbanks as “albatros”: an interpretation of Candida.’ Shaw Review 20 1977 71-82 (Baudelaire’s artist and Shaw’s)

 

 

Captain Brassbound’s Conversion

 

Alexander, Doris. ‘Captain Brant and Captain Brassbound: the origin of an O’Neill character.’ Modern Language Notes 74 1959 306-10

 

Bielecka, Malgorzata. G. B. Shaw’s unconventional hero in Three Plays for Puritans. Suffolk: anima publishing, 2006. 71 pp [not yet examined]

 

Brewer, Mary F. Staging whiteness. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP, 2005, 6-11: ‘Militant whiteness: G. B. Shaw’s Captain Brassbound’s Conversion

 

Carpenter, Charles A. Bernard Shaw & the art of destroying ideals: the early plays. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Pr., 1969, 191-206

 

Davis, Tracy C. George Bernard Shaw and the socialist theatre. Westport, CT: Greenwood Pr., 1994, 15-20

 

Duerksen, Roland A. ‘Shelleyan witchcraft: the unbinding of Brassbound.’ Shaw Review 15 1972 21-25

 

Greiner, Norbert. Idealism und Realism im Frühwerk George Bernard Shaws: die Bedeutung und Funktion der Begriffe in den politischen, ästhetischen und dramatischen Schriften. Heidelberg: Winter, 1977, 259-70: ‘Captain Brassbound’s Conversion: die Wiederaufnahme wesentlicher Strukturschemata des dramatischen Frühwerks’

 

Hark, Ina R. ‘Lady Cicely, I presume: converting the heathen, Shavian style.’ SHAW 1 1981 57-73

 

Holroyd, Michael. Bernard Shaw, volume II: 1898-1918: The pursuit of power. NY: Random House, 1989, 20-30

 

Mason, Michael. ‘Captain Brassbound and Governor Eyre.’ Shavian 2 vii 1963 20-22 (historical background)

 

-----. ‘Captain Brassbound’s Conversion: a coat of many colours.’ Signum 1 May 1974 23-29

 

Mills, John A. Language and laughter: comic diction in the plays of Bernard Shaw. Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Pr., 1969, 37-42, 80-82

 

Nelson, Raymond S. ‘The quest for justice in Captain Brassbound’s Conversion.’ Iowa English Bulletin Yearbook 21 1971 3-9

 

Pagliaro, Harold E. Relations between the sexes in the plays of George Bernard Shaw. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Pr., 2004, 117-22, 172-75

 

Saunders, M. Sean. ‘From metropolis to “impossible edges”: Shaw’s imperial abjects.’ SHAW 22 2002 99-115 (in this play and Caesar and Cleopatra)

 

Teytaud, Jean-P. ‘Shaw et le Maroc de Cunninghame Graham.’ Études Anglaises 47 1994 284-94  (the play and Graham’s Mogreb-el-Acksa)

 

Valency, Maurice. The cart and the trumpet: the plays of George Bernard Shaw. NY: Oxford UP, 1973, 181-96

 

Watson, Barbara B. A Shavian guide to the intelligent woman. London: Chatto & Windus, 1964, 68-74

 

Weintraub, Rodelle. ‘Captain Brassbound’s roots: the ancestry of a play.’ Pp 117-25 in Heinz Kosok, ed. Studies in Anglo-Irish literature. Bonn: Bouvier, 1982

 

-----. ‘Introduction.’ Pp xiii-xxv in Shaw. Captain Brassbound’s Conversion: a facsimile of the holograph manuscript. NY: Garland, 1981

 

Weintraub, Stanley. The unexpected Shaw: biographical approaches to G.B.S. and his work. NY: Ungar, 1982, 105-10: ‘Shaw’s Lady Cicely and Mary Kingsley’ (first publ. on pp 185-92 in Weintraub, R)

 

 

The Cassone

 

Greiner, Norbert. Idealism und Realism im Frühwerk George Bernard Shaws: die Bedeutung und Funktion der Begriffe in den politischen, ästhetischen und dramatischen Schriften. Heidelberg: Winter, 1977, 163-68: ‘The Cassone: ein Fragment von 1890’

 

 

Cymbeline Refinished

 

Dukore, Bernard F. Bernard Shaw, playwright: aspects of Shavian drama. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Pr., 1973, 211-15

 

Greenman, David J. ‘Shakespeare improved—a little: Shaw’s Cymbeline revisited.’ Shakespeare and Renaissance Association of West Virginia: Selected Papers 24 2001 64-76

 

Leary, Daniel J. ‘Shaw versus Shakespeare: the refinishing of Cymbeline.’ Educational Theatre Journal 30 1978 5-25

 

Peters, Sally. ‘Shaw’s double dethroned: The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, Cymbeline Refinished, and Shakes Versus Shav.’ SHAW 7 1987 301-16

 

Rozett, Martha T. Talking back to Shakespeare. Newark: Univ. of Delaware Pr., 1994, 141-44

 

Scharine, Richard G. ‘Blaming the bard: Shaw’s fifty years of refinishing Cymbeline.’ Journal of the Wooden O Symposium 2 2002 150-60

 

Stamm, Rudolf. The shaping powers at work: fifteen essays on poetic transmutation. Heidelberg: Winter, 1967, 130-45: ‘George Bernard Shaw and Shakespeare’s Cymbeline’; previously publ. on pp 254-66 of Don C. Allen, ed. Studies in honor of T. W. Baldwin. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Pr., 1958

 

West, E. J. ‘Shaw, Shakespeare, and Cymbeline.’ Theatre Annual 8 1950 7-24

 

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