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PART TWO: WORKS ABOUT SPECIFIC PLAYS: D through H

 

 

 

The Dark Lady of the Sonnets

 

Bertolini, John A. The playwrighting self of Bernard Shaw. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1991, 148-51

 

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

 

Riehle, Wolfgang. ‘Shaws Interlude: The Dark Lady of the Sonnets.’ Pp 607-16 in Riehle & Hugo Keiper, eds. Anglistentag 1994 Graz: proceedings. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1995

 

Zbierski, Henryk. ‘Shakespearean criticism and the influence of Bernard Shaw’s Dark Lady of the Sonnets.’ Pp 192-201 in Stanislaw Helsztynski, ed. Poland’s homage to Shakespeare, commemorating the fourth centenary of his birth 1564-1964. Warsaw: Polish Scientific Publications, 1965

 

 

The Devil’s Disciple  (see also ‘Shaw’s Screenplays’)

 

Abbott, Anthony S. Shaw and Christianity. NY: Seabury Pr., 1965, 93-107: ‘The Devil’s Disciple

 

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

 

Boynton, Catherine, & Maynard Mack. Introduction to the play. Rev. ed. NY: Hayden, 1976, 9-10, 30-42, 59-70, 93-96 (act-by-act exegesis)

 

Broich, Ulrich. ‘Wandlungen des Melodramas: Boucicaults Arrah-na-Pogue, Shaws The Devil’s Disciple und Ardens / D’Arcys Vandeleur’s Folly.’ Pp 108-24 in Raimund Borgmeier, ed. Gattungsprobleme in der anglo-amerikanischen Literatur. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1986

 

Carpenter, Charles A. Bernard Shaw & the art of destroying ideals: the early plays. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Pr., 1969, 157-68

 

Crompton, Louis. Shaw the dramatist. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Pr., 1969, 45-58

 

Cubeta, Paul M. ‘The Devil’s Disciple.’ Pp 73-81 in Cubeta, ed. Modern drama for analysis. 3rd ed. NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1963

 

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, 155-66: ‘Der Aufstand des Gewissens gegen die ökonomisch-soziale Zwangswelt’

 

Dervin, Daniel. Bernard Shaw: a psychological study. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 1975, 227-34

 

Dukore, Bernard F. Bernard Shaw, playwright: aspects of Shavian drama. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Pr., 1973, 143-48

 

Gordon, David J. Bernard Shaw and the comic sublime. NY: St. Martin’s Pr., 1990, 97-104

 

Gray, Candor. [pseud. of R. S. Graggs] A treatment of Bernard Shaw’s ‘The Minister and the Atheist’. Ontario, CA: Graggs, Nelson, 1957. 16 pp (vanity-press product)

 

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, 236-55: ‘The Devil’s Disciple: ironische Inversion oppositioneller Gebärden’

 

Grene, Nicholas. Bernard Shaw: a critical view. London: Macmillan, 1984, 38-44

 

Holroyd, Michael. Bernard Shaw, volume I: 1856-1898: The search for love. NY: Random House, 1988, 392-97

 

Hubert, Judd. ‘Upstaging in The Devil’s Disciple.’ Theatre Journal 35 1983 51-57

 

Nelson, Raymond S. ‘Shaw and Buchanan.’ English Literature in Transition 12 1969 99-103 (the play and Robert Buchanan’s poem ‘The Devil’s Case’)

 

Newton, K. M. In defence of literary interpretation: theory and practice. London: Macmillan, 1986, 83-114: ‘Shaw and tragedy’ (97-102 on the play)

 

Pagliaro, Harold E. Relations between the sexes in the plays of George Bernard Shaw. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Pr., 2004, 189-94

 

Riddle, Carol L. ‘Mrs. Dudgeon: more sinned against than sinning?’ SHAW 12 1992 271-80

 

Royall, Walter L. ‘De Fonblanque and Shaw’s Burgoyne.’ Shaw Review 10 1967 42-49

 

Sterner, Mark H. ‘Shaw’s Devil’s Disciple: the subversion of melodrama / the melodrama of subversion.’ Modern Drama 42 1999 338-45

 

Valency, Maurice. The cart and the trumpet: the plays of George Bernard Shaw. NY: Oxford UP, 1973, 156-68

 

Ward, A. C. ‘Introduction’ and ‘Notes.’ Pp 105-42 in Shaw. The Devil’s Disciple. London: Longmans, Green, 1958

 

Weintraub, Rodelle. ‘“Only the man . . . draws clear of it”: a new look at Anthony Anderson.’ Shaw Review 23 1980 130-32

 

Whitman, Robert F. ‘Introduction.’ Pp xiii-xxii in Shaw. The Devil’s Disciple: a facsimile of the holograph manuscript. NY: Garland, 1981

 

-----. ‘The passion of Dick Dudgeon.’ Shaw Review 21 1978 60-71

 

-----. ‘Shaw listens to the actors: the completion of The Devil’s Disciple.’ SHAW 3 1983 67-78

 

Wiedner, Elsie M. ‘Shaw’s transformation of Ibsen in The Devil’s Disciple.’ Shaw Review 22 1979 23-28

 

Zabrouski, Monica A., & Robert P. Kirschmann. ‘The ungendered will and the Shavian Superman.’ SHAW 26 2006 79-99 (90-92 on Dick Dudgeon)

 

 

The Doctor’s Dilemma

 

Adams, Elsie B. Bernard Shaw and the aesthetes. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 1971, 121-30

 

Allett, John. ‘Bernard Shaw, The Doctor’s Dilemma: scarcity, socialism, and the sanctity of life.’ Journal of Value Inquiry 35 2001 227-45

 

Bertolini, John A. The playwrighting self of Bernard Shaw. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1991, 77-96: ‘The Doctor’s Dilemma: the art of self-undoing’ (from SHAW 7 1987 151-69)

 

Boxill, Roger. Shaw and the doctors. NY: Basic Books, 1969, 134-43

 

Crompton, Louis. Shaw the dramatist. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Pr., 1969, 123-40

 

Doan, William J. ‘The Doctor’s Dilemma: adulterating a muse.’ SHAW 21 2001 152-61

 

Dukore, Bernard F. Bernard Shaw, playwright: aspects of Shavian drama. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Pr., 1973, 64-70 (incorporated in next item), 257-61

 

-----. Money & politics in Ibsen, Shaw, and Brecht. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Pr., 1980, 54-63

 

Fordyce, William D. T. ‘The quasi-agon in The Doctor’s Dilemma.’ SHAW 12 1992 181-98

 

Gillie, Christopher. Movements in English literature, 1900-1940. London: Cambridge UP, 164-70

 

Hill, James. ‘Bernard Shaw and the doctors: the art and science of medicine in The Doctor’s Dilemma.’ Journal of Medical Humanities 15 1994 93-100

 

Holroyd, Michael. Bernard Shaw, volume II: 1898-1918: The pursuit of power. NY: Random House, 1989, 159-72

 

Hugo, Leon H. ‘The Doctor’s Dilemma at the Court Theatre.’ Unisa English Studies 10 ii 1972 29-33

 

Löwy, Ilana. ‘Immunology and literature in the early twentieth century: Arrowsmith and The Doctor’s Dilemma.’ Medical History 32 1988 314-32

 

McCarthy, Mary. ‘Shaw at the Phoenix.’ Partisan Review 22 1955 252-59; repr. in her Sights and spectacles. NY: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1956, 151-62 (generalizations from a revival of the play)

 

Morgan, Margery M. ‘Introduction.’ In Shaw. The Doctor’s Dilemma: a facsimile of the holograph manuscript. NY: Garland, 1981

 

-----. The Shavian playground: an exploration of the art of George Bernard Shaw. London: Methuen, 1972, 158-69

 

O’Donnell, Norbert F. ‘Doctor Ridgeon’s deceptive dilemma.’ Shaw Review 2 vii 1959 1-5

 

Peters, Sally. ‘Commentary [on The Doctor’s Dilemma]: Bernard Shaw’s dilemma: marked by mortality.’ International Journal of Epidemiology 32 2003 918-19; see also 919-21: K. Srinath Reddy, ‘Commentary: Shaw’s critique of health care [in the preface to the play] is still valid’

 

Quinn, Martin. ‘William Archer and The Doctor’s Dilemma.’ SHAW 4 1984 87-106 (includes Archer’s reviews)

 

Smith, J. Percy. ‘A Shavian tragedy: The Doctor’s Dilemma.’ Pp 189-207 in B. H. Lehman et al., eds. The image of the work: essays in criticism. Berkeley: Univ. of California Pr., 1955

 

Trilling, Lionel. ‘Commentary.’ Pp 317-21 in Trilling, ed. The experience of literature: a reader with commentaries. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967

 

Valency, Maurice. The cart and the trumpet: the plays of George Bernard Shaw. NY: Oxford UP, 1973, 265-79

 

Weintraub, Stanley. Shaw’s people: Victoria to Churchill. Univ. Park: Penn State UP, 1996, 86-93: ‘A Jennifer from Australia: Edith Adams, her husband, and The Doctor’s Dilemma’ (from SHAW 6 1986 77-80)

 

Wisenthal, J. L. The marriage of contraries: Bernard Shaw’s middle plays. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1974, 109-18

 

 

Fanny’s First Play

 

Carpenter, Charles A. ‘Shaw’s cross-section of anti-Shavian opinion.’ Shaw Review 7 1964 78-86

 

Fisher, Barbara M. ‘Fanny’s First Play: a critical potboiler?’ SHAW 7 1987 187-205

 

Gahan, Peter. Shaw shadows: rereading the texts of Bernard Shaw. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2004, 166-88 (incorporates ‘Ruskin and form in Fanny’s First Play.’ SHAW 15 1995 85-103)

 

Gibbs, A. M. Bernard Shaw: a life. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2005, 307-10

 

Holroyd, Michael. Bernard Shaw, volume II: 1898-1918: The pursuit of power. NY: Random House, 1989, 279-84

 

Horzyca, Wilam. O dramacie. Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Artystyczne i Filmowe, 1969, 226-32: ‘Rodowód Ma»gorzaty Knox’ (1956 essay on the play)

 

Hugo, Leon H. Edwardian Shaw: the writer and his age. NY: St. Martin's Pr., 1999, 266-75: ‘Postscript 1911: Fanny’s First Play’ (incorporates ‘Shaw and his critics: Fanny’s First Play.’ Pp 61-80 in Conolly)

 

Lorichs, Sonja. The unwomanly woman in Bernard Shaw’s drama and her social and political background. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1973, 113-31: ‘Fanny and Margaret in Fanny’s First Play: rebellion and emancipation’

 

Nelson, Raymond S. ‘Fanny’s First Play and The Mill on the Floss.’ Shaw Review 12 1969 59-65

 

 

Farfetched Fables

 

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)

 

Hummert, Paul A. Bernard Shaw’s Marxian romance. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Pr., 1973, 208-16

 

‘Symposium: Farfetched Fables.’ SHAW 14 1994 83-92

 

 

The Gadfly  (adaptation of novel by Ethel Voynich)

 

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, 255-58: ‘The Gadfly: ein revolutionäres Melodrama’

 

 

Geneva

 

Coleman, D. C. ‘Shaw, Hitler, and the satiric fiction.’ Dalhousie Review 46 1966-67 443-56

 

Fyrth, H. J. ‘In the devil’s decade: Geneva and international politics.’ SHAW 11 1991 239-55

 

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

 

Goldfarb, Alvin. ‘Adolf Hitler as portrayed in drama and film during his lifetime.’ Journal of Popular Culture 13 1979 55-66

 

Griffith, Gareth. Socialism and superior brains: the political thought of Bernard Shaw. London: Routledge, 1993, 269-72

 

Harrison, William. ‘Geneva: a post-war approach.’ Journal of Irish Literature 19 ii 1990 52-57

 

Holroyd, Michael. Bernard Shaw, volume III: 1918-1951: The lure of fantasy. NY: Random House, 1991, 396-409

 

Isser, Edward R. Stages of annihilation: theatrical representations of the Holocaust. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1997, 44-61: ‘Bernard Shaw and British Holocaust drama’

 

Kamer, Hansruedi. Künstlerische und politische Extravaganz im Spätwerk Shaws. Bern: Francke, 1973, 139-50: ‘Nationalismus versus Supranationalismus: Geneva (1938/39)’

 

Langner, Lawrence. The magic curtain: the story of a life in two fields, theatre and invention. NY: Dutton, 1951, 454-58: appendix documenting the Langner-Shaw discussion of the pre-publication version of the play, which led to rewriting parts

 

Morgan, Margery M. The Shavian playground: an exploration of the art of George Bernard Shaw. London: Methuen, 1972, 316-25

 

Pilecki, Gerard A. Shaw’s Geneva: a critical study of the evolution of the text in relation to Shaw’s political thought and dramatic practice. The Hague: Mouton, 1965. 189 pp; pp 101-03, 105-38, & 140-51 repr. on pp 145-84 in Otten

 

Sharp, Sister M. Corona. ‘The theme of masks in Geneva.’ Shaw Review 5 1962 82-91

 

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)

 

Stone, Susan C. ‘Geneva: paean to the dictators?’ Shaw Review 16 1973 21-29

 

 

Getting Married

 

Bentley, Eric. Bernard Shaw: a reconsideration. 2nd ed. NY: Norton, 1976, 127-31, 133-35

 

Davis, Jill. ‘The New Woman and the new life.’ Pp 17-36 in Viv Gardner & Susan Rutherford, eds. The New Woman and her sisters: feminism and theatre 1850-1914. London: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992

 

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, 106-25: ‘Der Determinismus und der Verlust der moralischen Integrität’

 

Downer, Alan S. ‘Shaw’s first play.’ Pp 3-24 in Rosenblood 2 (on Getting Married as well as Widowers’ Houses)

 

Dukore, Bernard F. Bernard Shaw, playwright: aspects of Shavian drama. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Pr., 1973, 90-96

 

Gahan, Peter. Shaw shadows: rereading the texts of Bernard Shaw. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2004, 213-27

 

Holroyd, Michael. Bernard Shaw, volume II: 1898-1918: The pursuit of power. NY: Random House, 1989, 198-206

 

Innes, Christopher. ‘“Nothing but talk, talk, talk—Shaw talk”: discussion plays and the making of modern drama.’ Pp 162-79 in Innes (stresses this play and Misalliance)

 

Kohl, Norbert H. Bernard Shaws viktorianisches Erbe. Heidelberg: Winter, 1992, 206-16: ‘Getting Married

 

Lorichs, Sonja. The unwomanly woman in Bernard Shaw’s drama and her social and political background. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1973, 89-111: ‘Edith and Lesbia in Getting Married, a Disquisitory Play: marriage and divorce’

 

Morgan, Margery M. The Shavian playground: an exploration of the art of George Bernard Shaw. London: Methuen, 1972, 176-86: ‘The Greek form again: Getting Married

 

Sharp, William L. ‘Getting Married: new dramaturgy in comedy.’ Educational Theatre Journal 11 1959 103-09

 

Solomon, Stanley J. ‘Theme and structure in Getting Married.’ Shaw Review 5 1962 92-96

 

Valency, Maurice. The cart and the trumpet: the plays of George Bernard Shaw. NY: Oxford UP, 1973, 279-86

 

 

Great Catherine

 

Bertolini, John A. The playwrighting self of Bernard Shaw. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1991, 151-55

 

           

Heartbreak House

 

Appel, Sybille. Die Funktion der Gesellschaftskomödie von 1910-33 im europäischen Vergleich: dargestellt an Beispielen aus Deutschland, England, Frankreich und Österreich-Ungarn bzw. Österreich und Ungarn. Frankfurt: Lang, 1985, 202-36: ‘George Bernard Shaw und seine Gesellschaftskomödien Pygmalion (1913) und Heartbreak House (1920)’

 

Bennett, Benjamin. Modern drama and German classicism: renaissance from Lessing to Brecht. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1979, 265-73

 

Berst, Charles A. Bernard Shaw and the art of drama. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Pr., 1973, 221-58: ‘Heartbreak House: Shavian expressionism’

 

Brown, G. E. George Bernard Shaw. NY: Arco, 1971, 109-19

 

Brustein, Robert. The theatre of revolt. London: Methuen, 1965, 220-27

 

Bryden, Ronald. ‘The roads to Heartbreak House.’ Pp 180-94 in Innes

 

Clurman, Harold. ‘Notes for a production of Heartbreak House.’ Tulane Drama Review 5 iii 1961 58-67; repr. on pp 407-16 in Smith and on pp 445-51 in Marjorie Loggia & Glenn Young, eds. Collected works of Harold Clurman. NY: Applause Theatre Book Publishers, 1994

 

Cole, David W. ‘Shaw’s Heartbreak House.’ Explicator 62 2003 22-23

 

Coleman, D. C. ‘Fun and games: two pictures of Heartbreak House.’ Drama Survey 5 1966-67 223-36 (the play compared to Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)

 

Corrigan, Robert W. The theatre in search of a fix. NY: Delacorte Pr., 1973, 161-74: ‘The collapse of the Shavian cosmos’ (stresses the play)

 

-----. ‘Heartbreak House: Shaw’s elegy for Europe.’ Shaw Review 2 ix 1959 2-6

 

Crompton, Louis. Shaw the dramatist. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Pr., 1969, 153-68; repr. on pp 416-30 in Smith

 

Dukore, Bernard F. Bernard Shaw, playwright: aspects of Shavian drama. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Pr., 1973, 99-107, 227-31

 

-----. Money & politics in Ibsen, Shaw, and Brecht. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Pr., 1980, 82-92

 

Edgecombe, Rodney S. ‘Two Verdian echoes in Heartbreak House.’ Notes and Queries 52 2005 99-100

 

Frank, Joseph. ‘Exile and the kingdom: the incipient absurdity of Milton and Shaw.’ Mosaic 9 i 1975 111-21

 

-----. ‘Internal vs. external combustion: Dickens’ Bleak House and Shaw’s Major Barbara and Heartbreak House.’ Shaw Review 20 1977 126-34

 

Freeborn, Richard. ‘A Shavian fantasia in the Russian manner and Chekhov’s last play.’ Shavian 8 vii 1999-2000 6-9

 

Ganz, Arthur. George Bernard Shaw. London: Macmillan, 1983, 187-94

 

Garner, Stanton B. The absent voice: narrative comprehension in the theater. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Pr., 1989, 125-47: ‘Shaw’s comedy of disillusionment: Major Barbara and Heartbreak House’ (from Modern Drama 28 1985 638-58)

 

Gibbs, A. M. The art and mind of Shaw: essays in criticism. NY: St. Martin’s Pr., 1983, 177-90: ‘The tragi-comic vision of Heartbreak House

 

-----. Bernard Shaw: a life. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2005, 350-59 and see index

 

-----. ‘Heartbreak House: chamber of echoes.’ SHAW 13 1993 113-32 (King Lear and The Cherry Orchard are the main literary echoes)

 

-----. Heartbreak House: preludes of apocalypse. NY: Twayne, 1994. 149 pp

 

Gibbs, Tony. ‘Confessional play: biography and modern drama.’ Pp 149-64 in A. M. Gibbs, ed. Masks of time: drama and its contexts. Canberra: Australian Academy of the Humanities, 1994 (all on the play)

 

Gill, Richard. Happy rural seat: the English country house and the literary imagination. New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 1972, 135-40

 

Glicksberg, Charles. ‘The modern playwright and the absolute: the decline of tragedy.’ Queen’s Quarterly 65 1958 459-71 (part on the play)

 

Gordon, David J. Bernard Shaw and the comic sublime. NY: St. Martin’s Pr., 1990, 155-63

 

Grene, Nicholas. Bernard Shaw: a critical view. London: Macmillan, 1984, 114-31

 

Guy, Stéphane. ‘Progrès et illusion théâtrale: la scène engagée de George Bernard Shaw dans Heartbreak House.’ Études Anglaises 55 2002 40-50

 

Handley, Miriam. ‘Chekhov translated: Shaw’s use of sound effects in Heartbreak House.’ Modern Drama 42 1999 565-78

 

Harding, Desmond. ‘Bearing witness: Heartbreak House and the poetics of trauma.’ SHAW 26 2006 6-26

 

Hare, David. ‘Introduction.’ Pp vii-xii in Shaw. Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes. E. Dan H. Laurence. London: Penguin Books, 2000

 

Hark, Ina R. ‘Anti-Shavian satire in Heartbreak House.’ Dalhousie Review 58 1979 661-73

 

Holroyd, Michael. Bernard Shaw, volume III: 1918-1951: The lure of fantasy. NY: Random House, 1991, 8-25

 

Hornby, Richard. ‘The symbolic action of Heartbreak House.’ Drama Survey 7 1968-69 5-24

 

Hoy, Cyrus. ‘Shaw’s tragicomic irony: from Man and Superman to Heartbreak House.’ Virginia Quarterly Review 47 1971 56-78

 

Hugo, Leon H. Bernard Shaw, playwright and preacher. London: Methuen, 1971, 173-86

 

Hynes, Joseph. ‘Heartbreak House: between modernism and postmodernism.’ Independent Shavian 26 1988 51-56

 

Innes, Christopher. Modern British drama: the twentieth century. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002, 13-54: ‘Defining modernism: George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)’ (pp. 44-51 on the play)

 

-----, ed. A sourcebook on naturalist theatre. London: Routledge, 2000, 189-248: ‘Bernard Shaw 1856-1950’ (writings by Shaw and other contemporaries on Mrs Warren’s Profession, Heartbreak House, and their social and economic contexts, edited and discussed by Innes)

 

Jordan, John. ‘Shaw’s Heartbreak House.’ Threshold 1 1957 50-56

 

Kaufmann, Michael W. ‘The dissonance of dialectic: Shaw’s Heartbreak House.’ Shaw Review 13 1970 2-9

 

Kruse, Axel. ‘Bernard Shaw’s Heartbreak House: the war in “Neverland.”’ Sydney Studies in English 13 1987-88 100-119

 

Leary, Daniel J. ‘Heartbreak House: a dramatic epic.’ Independent Shavian 37 1999 3-13

 

-----. ‘Shaw’s Blakean vision: a dialectic approach to Heartbreak House.’ Modern Drama 15 1972 89-103

 

Lewis, Allan. The contemporary theatre: the significant playwrights of our time. NY: Crown, 1962, 80-111: ‘The drama of discussion—George Bernard Shaw’ (stresses the play)

 

Li, Kay. ‘Heartbreak House and the Trojan War.’ Pp 83-92 in Rusinko

 

McDowell, Frederick P. W. ‘Apocalypse and after: recent interpretations of Heartbreak House.’ Independent Shavian 25 1987 3-15

 

-----. ‘Technique, symbol, and theme in Heartbreak House.’ PMLA 68 1953 335-56; repr. on pp 85-104 in Adams

 

Meisel, Martin. Shaw and the nineteenth-century theater. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1963, 314-23

 

Mendelsohn, Michael J. ‘The heartbreak houses of Shaw and Chekhov.’ Shaw Review 6 1963 89-95; repr. on pp 399-407 in Smith

 

Mizener, Arthur. ‘Poetic drama and the well-made play.’ English Institute Essays 1949 33-54; 45-54 treat the play and Saint Joan

 

Morgan, Margery M. The Shavian playground: an exploration of the art of George Bernard Shaw. London: Methuen, 1972, 200-220: ‘Heartbreak House: Shaw’s dream play’

 

Murrenus, Valerie. ‘Hostages of heartbreak: the women of Heartbreak House.’ SHAW 23 2003 17-25

 

Nathan, Rhoda B. ‘The “daimons” of Heartbreak House.’ Modern Drama 21 1978 253-65

 

-----. ‘The House with no exit: the existential Shaw.’ Independent Shavian 25 1987 35-42

 

Nethercot, Arthur. ‘Zeppelins over heartbreak house.’ Shaw Review 9 1966 46-51; largely repr. on pp 430-33 in Smith

 

Nickson, Richard. ‘Heartbreak House: play and earnest.’ Independent Shavian 41 2003 13-15

 

Pagliaro, Harold E. Relations between the sexes in the plays of George Bernard Shaw. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Pr., 2004, 127-32 (incorporates part of ‘Truncated love in Candida and Heartbreak House.’ SHAW 24 2004 204-14)

 

Perkins, Richard. ‘[Michael Cook’s] Jacob’s Wake and the European tradition.’ Canadian Drama 15 1989 159-68 (compared to Heartbreak House)

 

Peters [Vogt], Sally. ‘Heartbreak House: Shaw’s ship of fools.’ Modern Drama 21 1978 267-86

 

Potter, Rosanne G. ‘Changes in Shaw’s dramatic rhetoric: Mrs Warren’s Profession, Major Barbara, and Heartbreak House.’ Pp 225-58 in Potter, ed. Literary computing and literary criticism: theoretical and practical essays on theme and rhetoric. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Pr., 1989

 

Quinn, Martin. ‘The Dickensian presence in Heartbreak House.’ Shaw Review 20 1977 119-25

 

Raben, Estelle M. Major strategies in twentieth century drama: apocalyptic vision, allegory and open form. NY: Lang, 1989, 37-62: ‘Chekhov and Shaw’ (compares The Cherry Orchard with the play)

 

Rabey, David I. ‘Power, culture, and the politics of absolute play: Heartbreak House and Too True to be Good as existential expressionism.’ SHAW 12 1992 199-212

 

Radford, Frederick L. ‘The conspicuously elusive Mr. Shaw: some remarks on recent Shaviana.’ Nineteenth Century Theatre Research 3 1975 37-45

 

Reed, Robert R. ‘Boss Mangan, Peer Gynt, and Heartbreak House.’ Shaw Review 2 vii 1959 6-12

 

Smith, Warren S. Bishop of everywhere: Bernard Shaw and the Life Force. Univ. Park: Penn State UP, 1982, 73-78

 

Stewart, J. I. M. Eight modern writers. Oxford: Clarendon Pr., 1963, 169-75

 

Stockholder, Fred E. ‘A Schopenhauerian reading of Heartbreak House.’ Shaw Review 11 1968 42-51

 

Thaler, Estelle M. ‘Apocalyptic vision in Heartbreak House and Endgame: the metaphor of change.’ Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 34 1986 343-51

 

Throne, Marilyn. ‘Madness, mysticism, and black cultures: G. B. Shaw’s Peter Keegan and Captain Shotover.’ Colby Library Quarterly 23 1987 123-34

 

-----. ‘The social value of the privileged class: a comparison of Shaw’s Heartbreak House and Friel’s Aristocrats.’ Colby Library Quarterly 24 1988 162-72

 

Turco, Alfred. Shaw’s moral vision: the self and salvation. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1976, 229-63

 

Valency, Maurice. The cart and the trumpet: the plays of George Bernard Shaw. NY: Oxford UP, 1973, 335-48

 

Vidal, Gore. Rocking the boat. Boston: Little, Brown, 1962, 94-105: ‘Bernard Shaw’s Heartbreak House’; repr. on pp 222-27 in his United States: essays, 1952-1992. NY: Random House, 1993 (1959 essay that builds its thesis on an error that Shaw promulgated: the play’s prewar date of inception)

 

Vogt, Sally P., see Peters, Sally

 

Waterman, David. ‘The human body as a text of resistance: madness as a social / individual wound in Wilfred Owen, George Bernard Shaw and Virginia Woolf.’ Sprachkunst 30 1999 67-96 (77-83 on the play)

 

Webster, Grant. ‘Smollett and Shaw: a note on a source for Heartbreak House.’ Shaw Review 4 iii 1961 16-17 (Peregrine Pickle)

 

Weightman, John. ‘The mystery of Heartbreak House.’ Encounter 44 v 1975 39-41

 

Weintraub, Stanley. ‘Curtains speech: a new source for Heartbreak House.’ English Literature in Transition 38 1994 497-500

 

-----. ‘Introduction.’ Pp xiii-xxviii in Shaw. Heartbreak House: a facsimile of the revised typescript. NY: Garland, 1981

 

-----. Journey to heartbreak: the crucible years of Bernard Shaw 1914-1918. NY: Weybright & Talley, 1971, 162-83: ‘Heartbreak House’; 333-43: ‘Appendix: Shaw’s Lear’ (revision of ‘Shaw’s Lear.’ Ariel: A Review of International English Literature 1 iii 1970 59-68; also publ. as ‘Heartbreak House: Shaw’s Lear.’ Modern Drama 15 1972 255-65; revised on pp 173-80 in his The unexpected Shaw: biographical approaches to G.B.S. and his work. NY: Ungar, 1982)

 

Whitaker, Thomas R. Fields of play in modern drama. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1977, 79-82, 89-96

 

-----. Mirrors of our playing: paradigms and presences in modern drama. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Pr., 1999, 65-78 on the play

 

-----. ‘Playing in earnest.’ Pp 407-23 in Susan Dick, ed. Omnium gatherum: essays for Richard Ellmann. Gerrards Cross: Smythe, 1989

 

Whitman, Robert F. Shaw and the play of ideas. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1977, 237-56

 

Wilkenfeld, Roger B. ‘Perpetual motion in Heartbreak House.’ Texas Studies in Literature and Language 13 1971 321-35

 

Wisenthal, J. L. The marriage of contraries: Bernard Shaw’s middle plays. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1974, 136-71

 

-----. Shaw’s sense of history. Oxford: Clarendon Pr., 1988, 158-64 (the play as ‘present history’)

 

Woodfield, James. ‘Ellie in wonderland: dream and madness in Heartbreak House.’ English Studies in Canada 11 1985 334-45

 

Wright, Anne. Literature of crisis, 1910-22: Howards End, Heartbreak House, Women in Love and The Waste Land. London: Macmillan, 1984, 63-112: ‘Heartbreak House: “The judgement has come”’

 

-----. ‘Shaw’s burglars: Heartbreak House and Too True to be Good.’ Shaw Review 23 1980 2-10

 

 

Household of Joseph see Passion Play

 

 

How He Lied to Her Husband  (see also ‘Shaw’s Screenplays’)

 

Dukore, Bernard F. ‘Shaw improves Shaw.’ Modern Drama 6 1963 26-31 (emendations to the play)

 

Gahan, Peter. Shaw shadows: rereading the texts of Bernard Shaw. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2004, 147-51

 

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

 

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