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PART TWO: WORKS ABOUT SPECIFIC PLAYS: I Through M
‘In Good King Charles’s Golden Days’
Coward,
Barry. ‘An historian looks at Good King Charles.’ Shavian 6 ii
1984-85 9-10
Evans, T.
F. ‘‘In Good King Charles’s Golden Days’: the dramatist as historian.’ SHAW
7 1987 259-77
Holroyd,
Michael. Bernard Shaw, volume III: 1918-1951: The lure of fantasy. NY:
Random House, 1991, 409-15
Keynes,
John Maynard. ‘G.B.S. and Isaac Newton.’ Pp 106-09 in Winsten
Larson,
Gale K. ‘‘In Good King Charles’s Golden Days’: an imaginative and
truthful history.’ SHAW 19 1999 149-58
Meisel,
Martin. Shaw and the nineteenth-century theater.
O’Donnell,
Norbert F. ‘Harmony and discord in Good King Charles.’ Shaw Bulletin 2
iv 1958 5-8
Tetzeli von
Rosador, Kurt. Das englische Geschichtsdrama seit Shaw.
Wisenthal,
J. L. ‘Shaw, our contemporary?—the crooked roads of genius.’ SHAW 14
1994 219-30
The Inca of Perusalem
Bertolini,
John A. The playwrighting self of Bernard Shaw.
The Interlude at the Playhouse
Matlaw,
Myron. ‘Bernard Shaw and The Interlude at the Playhouse.’ Shaw Review
3 ii 1960 9-17 (includes text)
Jitta’s Atonement
Dukore,
Bernard F. Bernard Shaw, playwright: aspects of Shavian drama.
Gahan,
Peter. ‘Jitta’s
Atonement: the birth of psychoanalysis and “the fetters of the
feminine psyche.”’ SHAW 24 2004 128-65
Holroyd,
Michael. Bernard Shaw, volume III: 1918-1951: The lure of fantasy. NY:
Random House, 1991, 64-70
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.
Woodsworth,
Judith. ‘In the looking glass: Bernard Shaw on and in translation.’ Pp 531-51
in Susan Petrilli, ed. Translation translation.
John Bull’s Other Island
Cullingford,
Elizabeth B. Ireland’s others: gender and ethnicity in Irish literature and
popular
culture. Notre Dame, IN:
Denninghaus,
Friedhelm. Die dramatische Konzeption George Bernard Shaws: Untersuchungen
zur Struktur der Bühnengesellschaft und zum Aufbau der Figuren in den Stücken
Shaws.
Dukore,
Bernard F. Bernard Shaw, playwright: aspects of Shavian drama.
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‘Shaw’s “big three.”’ SHAW 4 1984 33-67 (Man and Superman, John
Bull’s Other Island, and Major Barbara as a kind of trilogy)
Falocco,
Joe. ‘Mother Ireland: an Oedipal reading of John Bull’s Other Island.’ New
England Theatre Journal 15 2004 49-62
Ferrar,
Harold. ‘The caterpillar and the gracehoper: Bernard Shaw’s John Bull’s
Other Island.’ Éire-Ireland 15 i 1980 25-45
Gahan,
Peter. ‘Colonial locations of contested space and John Bull’s Other Island.’
SHAW 26 2006 194-221
-----. Shaw
shadows: rereading the texts of Bernard Shaw.
Ganz,
Arthur. George Bernard Shaw. London: Macmillan, 1983, 147-54
Gibbs, A.
M. The art and mind of Shaw: essays in criticism. NY: St. Martin’s Pr.,
1983, 140-52: ‘Light in the Celtic gloom: John Bull’s Other Island’
-----. Bernard
Shaw: a life. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2005, 251-55 and see index
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‘Bernard Shaw’s other island.’ Pp 122-36 in Oliver MacDonagh et al., eds. Irish
culture and nationalism 1750-1950. NY: St. Martin’s Pr., 1983
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‘Yeats, Shaw and unity of culture.’ Southern Review (Adelaide) 6 1973
189-203
Gillin,
Edward. ‘Letters for man, a postscript for God: Shaw’s comedy and O’Casey’s
farce.’ O’Casey Annual 4 1985 63-72 (the play compared to Purple Dust)
Gordon,
David J. Bernard Shaw and the comic sublime. NY: St. Martin’s Pr., 1990,
118-23
Grene,
Nicholas. Bernard Shaw: a critical view. London: Macmillan, 1984, 67-83
-----. ‘John
Bull’s Other Island: at home and abroad.’ Shaw Review 23 1980 11-16
(stage history of the play in Ireland)
-----. The
politics of Irish drama: plays in context from Boucicault to Friel.
Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999, 18-34
Griffith,
Gareth. Socialism and superior brains: the political thought of Bernard Shaw.
London: Routledge, 1993, 199-207
Hassett,
Joseph M. ‘Climate and character in John Bull’s Other Island.’ SHAW
2 1982 17-25
Holroyd,
Michael. Bernard Shaw, volume II: 1898-1918: The pursuit of power. NY:
Random House, 1989, 84-90, 97-100
Jenckes,
Norma. ‘The political function of Shaw’s destruction of stage Irish conventions
in John Bull’s Other Island.’ Essays in Theatre 5 1987 115-26
-----. ‘The
rejection [by Yeats] of Shaw’s Irish play: John Bull’s Other Island.’
Éire-Ireland 10 i 1975 38-53
Kent, Brad.
‘Shaw’s everyday emergency: commodification in and of John Bull’s Other
Island.’ SHAW 26 2006 162-79
Kiberd,
Declan. Inventing Ireland. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1996, 51-63: ‘John
Bull’s other islander: Bernard Shaw’
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
Krause,
David. The profane book of Irish comedy. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1982,
203-22: ‘The barbarous morals of Shaw and Carroll’ (pp. 203-12 on the play)
Larik, K.
M. ‘John Bull’s Other Island (1904): salvaged and damned state of mind.’
Ariel: A Research Journal of English Language and Literature (Jamshoro)
15 1989-90 1-9
Leary,
Daniel J. ‘An approach toward Shavian autobiography.’ Independent Shavian
35 1997 27-48 (Doyle’s soliloquy as a reflection of Shaw at the time)
-----. ‘A
deleted passage from Shaw’s John Bull’s Other Island.’ Bulletin of
the New York Public Library 74 1970 598-606 (a crucial passage cut for
production)
McDowell,
Frederick P. W. ‘Politics, comedy, character, and dialectic: the Shavian world
of John Bull’s Other Island.’ PMLA 82 1967 542-53
Meisel,
Martin. ‘John Bull’s Other Island and other working partnerships.’ SHAW
7 1987 119-36
-----. Shaw
and the nineteenth-century theater. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1963,
269-89: ‘Irish romance’
Mercier,
Vivian. Modern Irish literature: sources and founders. Oxford: Clarendon
Pr., 1994, 141-56: ‘Irish religions: John Bull’s Other Island, 1904’
(from ‘Irish religion and Irish politics: a tour of John Bull’s Other Island
(1904).’ Threshold 37 1986-87 30-40)
Miller, C.
Brook. ‘Exporting the Garden City: imperial development and the English
character in John Bull’s Other Island.’ Xchanges [online graduate
journal at Wayne State Univ.] 2 ii 2003 (unpaged; 8-10 pp)
Mills, John
A. Language and laughter: comic diction in the plays of Bernard Shaw.
Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Pr., 1969, 45-48, 89-95
Morgan,
Margery M. The Shavian playground: an exploration of the art of George
Bernard Shaw. London: Methuen, 1972, 119-33
Müllenbrock,
Heinz J. Literatur und Zeitgeschichte in England zwischen dem Ende des 19.
Jahrhunderts und dem Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkriegs. Hamburg: De Gruyter,
1967, 66-73: ‘Shaws Behandlung der irischen Frage in John Bull’s Other
Island’; see also 10-12 and 199-203
Nadler,
Paul. ‘Pastoral elements in John Bull’s Other Island.’ Modern Drama
38 1995 520-24
Ochshorn,
Kathleen. ‘Colonialism, postcolonialism, and the shadow of a new empire: John
Bull’s Other Island.’ SHAW 26 2006 180-93
Parker,
William. ‘Broadbent and Doyle: two Shavian archetypes.’ Pp 39-49 in Patrick
Rafroidi et al., eds. Aspects of the Irish theatre. Paris: Lille UP,
1972
Poulain,
Alexandra. ‘Une saison en enfer: L’Autre Ile de John Bull ou la
dramaturgie du malentendu.’ Pp 77-97 in Brennan
Ritschel,
Nelson O. Synge and Irish nationalism: the precursor to revolution.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Pr., 2002, 28-34 (the play as a provocation for Synge’s
The Playboy of the Western World); ‘J. M. Synge and the reconfiguration
of G. B. Shaw in The Playboy.’ New England Theatre Journal 15
2004 35-47
Rodstein,
Susan de S. ‘John Bull and Paddy’s pig: Shaw and the stage Irishman.’ Pp
295-312 in C. C. Barfoot, ed. Beyond Pug’s tour: national and ethnic
stereotypes in theory and literary practice. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1997
Rollins,
Ronald G. ‘Shaw and O’Casey: John Bull and his other island.’ Shaw Review 10
1967 60-69 (the play and Purple Dust)
Saddlemeyer,
Ann. ‘John Bull's Other Island: “seething in the brain.”’ Canadian
Journal of Irish Studies 25 1999 219-41
Schrank,
Bernice. ‘Staging John Bull: British identity and Irish drama.’ Pp 128-60 in
Andrew Benjamin et al., eds. Postcolonial cultures and literatures:
modernity and the (un) Commonwealth. NY: Lang, 2002
Sidnell,
Michael J. ‘John Bull’s Other Island—Yeats and Shaw.’ Pp 156-78 in
Robert O’Driscoll, ed. Theatre and nationalism in twentieth-century Ireland.
Toronto, ON: Univ. of Toronto Pr., 1971
Smith,
Warren S. Bishop of everywhere: Bernard Shaw and the Life Force. Univ.
Park: Penn State UP, 1982, 1-9
Swartzlander,
Susan. ‘“To learn to respect reality”: Bernard Shaw’s John Bull’s Other
Island.’ SHAW 8 1988 85-95
Throne,
Marilyn. ‘Madness, mysticism, and black cultures: G. B. Shaw’s Peter Keegan and
Captain Shotover.’ Colby Library Quarterly 23 1987 123-34
Turner,
Tramble T. ‘Bernard Shaw’s “eternal” Irish concerns.’ Éire / Ireland 21
ii 1986 57-69
Turco,
Alfred. Shaw’s moral vision: the self and salvation. Ithaca, NY: Cornell
UP, 1976, 175-92
Valency,
Maurice. The cart and the trumpet: the plays of George Bernard Shaw. NY:
Oxford UP, 1973, 238-47
Weintraub,
Rodelle. ‘Doyle’s dream: John Bull’s Other Island.’ SHAW 21 2001
143-50
West,
Alick. George Bernard Shaw: ‘a good man fallen among Fabians’. NY:
International, 1950, 114-20
Wisenthal,
J. L. The marriage of contraries: Bernard Shaw’s middle plays.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1974, 87-108
The King, the Constitution and the Lady
Weintraub,
Stanley. ‘King Magnus and King Minus: a play and a playlet.’ SHAW 27
2007 11-27 (the
play
and The Apple Cart); part from ‘Playing the King.’ History Today
56 xii 2006 20-22 (context for
Shaw’s
abdication playlet, published in the Evening Standard on December 5,
1936)
‘Macbeth Skit’
Dukore,
Bernard F. ‘Macbeth Skit.’ Educational Theatre Journal 19 1967 343-48
(prints the text with a brief note)
Major Barbara (see also ‘Shaw’s Screenplays’)
Byrne, Sandie,
ed. George Bernard Shaw’s plays: Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion,
Man and Superman, Major Barbara: contexts and criticism. NY:
Norton, 2002. 545 pp
Zimbardo, Rose A.,
ed. Twentieth century interpretations of Major Barbara: a collection
of critical essays. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1970. 124 pp
Abbott,
Anthony S. Shaw and Christianity. NY: Seabury Pr., 1965, 141-56:
‘Assault on idealism: Major Barbara’
Adolph,
Andrea. ‘Virginia Woolf’s revision of a Shavian tradition.’ SHAW 21 2001
63-79 (her play Freshwater seems based on Major Barbara)
Albert,
Sidney P. ‘Ballycorus and the folly: in search of Perivale St. Andrews.’ SHAW
19 1999 158-74
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‘Barbara’s progress.’ SHAW 21 2001 81-93
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‘Evangelizing the garden city?’ SHAW 19 1999 41-77
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‘From Murray’s Mother-in-Law to Major Barbara: the outside
story.’ SHAW 22 2002 19-65
-----.‘“In
more ways than one”: Major Barbara’s debt to Gilbert Murray.’ Educational
Theatre Journal 20 1968 123-40; repr. on pp 375-97 in Smith
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‘“Letters of fire against the sky”: Bodger’s soul and Shaw’s pub.’ Shaw
Review 11 1968 82-98
-----. ‘The
Lord’s Prayer and Major Barbara.’ SHAW 1 1981 107-28
-----. ‘The
mood of Barbara.’ Independent Shavian 32 1994 27-28 (from Regional [NY]
2 i 1958 8); ‘The mood of Barbara revisited: Shaw, Jevons, and the
syllogism.’ Independent Shavian 32 1994 29-36
-----. ‘The
price of salvation: moral economics in Major Barbara.’ Modern Drama
14 1971 307-23
-----.
‘Shaw’s advice to the players of Major Barbara.’ Theatre Survey
10 1969 1-17; ‘More Shaw advice . . . .’ Theatre Survey 11 1970 66-85
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‘Shaw’s Republic.’ SHAW 25 2005 82-88
Albrecht,
Michael von. ‘Fate or hate? A textual problem in Shaw’s Major Barbara.’ Notes
& Queries 36 1989 196-97 (‘To hold a hand uplifted over fate’ in Act
III is absurd or wrong)
Allett,
John. ‘Bernard Shaw and dirty-hands politics: a comparison of Mrs. Warren’s
Profession and Major Barbara.’ Journal of Social Philosophy
28 ii 1995 32-45; repr. on pp 51-65 in Paul Rynard & David P. Shugarman,
eds. Cruelty and deception: the controversy over dirty hands in politics.
Toronto, CA: Broadview Pr., 2000
Baker,
Stuart E. Bernard Shaw’s remarkable religion: a faith that fits the facts.
Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2002, 123-46
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‘Logic and religion in Major Barbara: the syllogism of St. Andrew
Undershaft.’ Modern Drama 21 1978 241-52
Baskin, Ken
A. ‘Undershaft’s challenge and the future of the race.’ Shaw Review 21
1978 136-51
Bentley,
Eric. Thinking about the playwright: comments from four decades.
Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 1987, 86-97: ‘Shaw in 1978’ (talk at Shaw
Festival first publ. in Theater Three 1 1986 5-15; stresses the play)
Berg,
Fredric. ‘Structure and philosophy in Man and Superman and Major
Barbara.’ Pp 144-61 in Innes
Berst,
Charles A. Bernard Shaw and the art of drama. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois
Pr., 1973, 154-74: ‘Major Barbara: giving the devil his due’ (from ‘The
devil and Major Barbara.’ PMLA 83 1968 71-79)
Bertolini,
John A. The playwrighting self of Bernard Shaw. Carbondale: Southern
Illinois UP, 1991, 58-76: ‘Major Barbara: work and the self’
Bloom,
Harold, ed. George Bernard Shaw’s Major Barbara: modern critical
interpretations. NY: Chelsea, 1988. 183 pp (repr. essays except for
introduction by editor)
Bowman,
David H. ‘Shaw, Stead and the Undershaft tradition.’ Shaw Review 14 1971
29-32
Brooks,
Harold F. ‘Shaw and Shelley.’ Notes & Queries 36 1989 196 (possible
source of ‘Dare you make war on war?’)
Brown, G.
E. George Bernard Shaw. NY: Arco, 1971, 67-82
Chen,
Wendi. ‘G. B. Shaw’s plays on the Chinese stage: the 1991 production of Major
Barbara.’ Comparative Literature Studies 35 i 1998 25-48
Coskren,
Robert. ‘Siegfried elements in the plays of Bernard Shaw.’ SHAW 2
1982 27-46 (31-39 on the play)
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‘Wagner and Shaw: Rheingold motifs in Major Barbara.’ Comparative
Drama 14 1980 70-73
Crompton,
Louis. Shaw the dramatist. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Pr., 1969, 105-22
(from ‘Shaw’s challenge to liberalism.’ Prairie Schooner 37 1963 229-44;
repr. as ‘Major Barbara: Shaw’s challenge to liberalism.’ Pp 121-41 in
Bernice Slote, ed. Literature and society. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska
Pr., 1964)
Crum, Jane
A. ‘“I must get out of this into the air”: transfiguration and ascent in three
plays by Bernard Shaw.’ Pp 5-13 in Bert Cardullo, ed. Before his eyes:
essays in honor of Stanley Kauffmann. Lanham, MD: UP of America, 1986 (Major
Barbara, Misalliance, and Saint Joan)
Ditsky,
John. The onstage Christ: studies in the persistence of a theme. London:
Vision Pr., 1980, 32-45: ‘Shaw’s transformed Christ: Major Barbara’
Dukore,
Bernard F. Bernard Shaw, playwright: aspects of Shavian drama. Columbia:
Univ. of Missouri Pr., 1973, 78-91, 193-203, 246-49
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‘Dolly finds a father: Shaw’s dramatic development.’ Papers on Language and
Literature 24 1988 81-90 (link with You Never Can Tell)
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‘“Father Undershaft” and the kids.’ SHAW 21 2001 95-105
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‘Introduction.’ Pp xiii-xxii in Shaw. Major Barbara: a facsimile of the
holograph manuscript. NY: Garland, 1981 (incorporates ‘Revising Major
Barbara.’ Shaw Review 16 1973 2-10)
-----. ‘Machiavelli, the shark, and the tinpot tragedienne.’ SHAW
25 2005 59-72
-----. Money
& politics in Ibsen, Shaw, and Brecht. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Pr.,
1980, 109-22
-----. ‘Sex
and salvation.’ SHAW 24 2004 112-18
-----.
‘Shaw’s “big three.”’ SHAW 4 1984 33-67 (Man and Superman, John
Bull’s Other Island, and Major Barbara as a kind of trilogy)
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“Shaw’s irritating ways.” A. R. T.
Inquiries [American Repertory
Theatre], No. 2, January 1990, 1-3
-----. ‘The
time of Major Barbara.’ Theatre Survey 23 1982 10-11
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‘Toward an interpretation of Major Barbara.’ Shaw Review 6 1963
62-70
-----. ‘The
Undershaft maxims.’ Modern Drama 9 1966 90-100; repr. on pp 58-67 in Zimbardo
Everding,
Robert G. ‘Fusion of character and setting: artistic strategy in Major
Barbara.’ SHAW 3 1983 103-16
Fergusson,
Francis. The idea of a theater. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1949, 178-93:
‘The theatricality of Shaw and Pirandello’ (178-83 on the play; repr. on pp
109-15 in Zimbardo)
Forter,
Elizabeth T. ‘Introduction.’ Pp vii-xxx in Shaw. Major Barbara. NY:
Appleton, 1971
Frank,
Joseph. ‘Major Barbara—Shaw’s Divine Comedy.’ PMLA 71 1956
61-74; repr. on pp 28-41 in Zimbardo; Stanley Weintraub. ‘“Shaw’s Divine
Comedy”: addendum.’ Shaw Bulletin 2 v 1958 21-22
-----.‘Internal
vs. external combustion: Dickens’ Bleak House and Shaw’s Major
Barbara and Heartbreak House.’ Shaw Review 20 1977 126-34
Frankel,
Charles. ‘Efficient power and inefficient virtue—Bernard Shaw: Major Barbara.’
Pp 5-23 in Robert M. MacIver, ed. Great moral dilemmas in literature, past
and present. NY: Harper, 1956
Gainor, J.
Ellen. Shaw’s daughters: dramatic and narrative constructions of gender.
Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Pr., 1991, 218-24
Ganz,
Arthur. George Bernard Shaw. London: Macmillan, 1983, 154-70
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)
Gelber,
Norman. ‘The “misalliance” theme in Major Barbara.’ Shaw Review 15
1972 65-70
Gibbs, A.
M. The art and mind of Shaw: essays in criticism. NY: St. Martin’s Pr.,
1983, 153-67: ‘Action and meaning in Major Barbara’
-----. Bernard
Shaw: a life. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2005, 279-84 and see index
Goetsch,
Paul. ‘Shaws Major Barbara: Ideologiekritik und Destabilisierung der
Genregrenzen.’ Pp 251-67 in Dieter Kafitz, ed. Drama und Theater der
Jahrhundertwende. Tübingen: Francke, 1991
Goldman,
Michael. ‘Shaw and the marriage in Dionysus.’ Pp 97-111 in Michael Bertin, ed. The
play and its critic: essays for Eric Bentley. Lanham, MD: UP of America,
1986
Gordon,
David J. Bernard Shaw and the comic sublime. NY: St. Martin’s Pr., 1990,
123-30
Grene,
Nicholas. Bernard Shaw: a critical view. London: Macmillan, 1984, 84-100
Guntner, J.
Lawrence. ‘Illocutionary acts and a speech-act definition of literary genre.’
Pp 293-303 in Marion Gymnich et al., eds. Literature and linguistics:
approaches, models, and applications. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag,
2002 (the play, Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, and Pinter’s The
Caretaker)
Hadfield,
Dorothy A. ‘What runs (in) the family: iterated retelling, gender, and genre in
You Never Can Tell and Major Barbara.’ SHAW 26 2006 58-78
Harrison,
David B. ‘A new source for Shaw’s Major Barbara.’ English Literature
in Transition 28 1985 56-58 (an essay by Engels)
Herold,
Larry. ‘Writing was only step one: Bernard Shaw’s immersion in the premiere of Major
Barbara.’ Independent Shavian 42 2004 34-42
Hoeveler,
Diane L. ‘Shaw’s vision of God in Major Barbara.’ Independent Shavian
17 1978-79 16-18
Holroyd,
Michael. Bernard Shaw, volume II: 1898-1918: The pursuit of power. NY:
Random House, 1989, 100-116
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, 150-60
-----. ‘Major
Barbara at the Court [Theatre].’ Unisa English Studies 9 ii 1971 1-6
Irvine,
William. The universe of G.B.S. NY: McGraw-Hill, 1949, 259-64
-----. ‘Major
Barbara.’ Shavian no. 7 1956 43-47
Ishii,
Michiyo. ‘Two political implications of Shaw’s Major Barbara.’ Studies
in English Literature (Tokyo) 1987 21-32
Jewkes, W.
T. ‘The Faust theme in Major Barbara.’ Shaw Review 21 1978 80-91
Johnson,
Robert J. ‘Theme and character in Major Barbara.’ Texas Studies in
Literature and Language 12 1970 471-80
Ketels,
Violet B. ‘Shaw, [C. P.] Snow, and the New Men.’ Personalist 47 1966
520-31
Leary,
Daniel J. ‘Dialectical action in Major Barbara.’ Shaw Review 12
1969 46-58
Lefcourt,
Charles R. ‘Major Barbara: an exercise in Shavian wit and wisdom.’ English
Record 25 ii 1974 27-29 (experience teaching it to freshmen)
Levitt,
Paul. ‘Justice and salvation in Major Barbara.’ Shavian 10 iv
2007 8-23
Lorichs,
Sonja. The unwomanly woman in Bernard Shaw’s drama and her social and
political background. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1973, 61-87:
‘Barbara in Major Barbara: salvationist religion versus capitalism’
-----. ‘Two
mother characters in Bernard Shaw’s drama.’ Shavian 5 1975 5-8
Manista,
Frank C. ‘Doing proper things for improper reasons: spiritual ambivalence in Major
Barbara.’ SHAW 26 2006 100-117
Matheson,
T. J. ‘The lure of power and the triumph of capitalism: an ironic reading of Major
Barbara.’ English Studies in Canada 12 1986 285-300
Mazer, Cary
M. ‘Bill Walker’s sovereign: a note on sources.’ SHAW 3 1983 117-19
McCollom,
William G. The divine average: a view of comedy. Cleveland, OH: Pr. of
Case Western Reserve Univ., 1971, 198-212: ‘Shaw’s comedy and Major Barbara’
Meisel,
Martin. Shaw and the nineteenth-century theater. Princeton, NJ:
Princeton UP, 1963, 294-303
Morgan,
Margery M. The Shavian playground: an exploration of the art of George Bernard
Shaw. London: Methuen, 1972, 134-57 (revised from ‘Major Barbara’ on
pp 68-88 in Zimbardo); repr. as ‘Shaw’s Blakean farce’ on pp 478-502 in Byrne
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‘Shaw, Yeats, Nietzsche, and the religion of art.’ Komos 1 1967 24-34
(compares the play with Yeats’s Resurrection via Nietzsche’s Birth of
tragedy)
Morsberger,
Robert E. ‘The winning of Barbara Undershaft: conversion by the cannon factory,
or “Wot prawce selvytion nah?”’ Costerus 9 1973 71-77
Nelson,
Raymond S. ‘Responses to poverty in Major Barbara.’ Arizona Quarterly
27 1971 335-46
Newby,
Richard L. ‘An Arnoldian allusion in Major Barbara.’ American Notes
& Queries 16 1978 68 (‘character’ governs England)
Niemi,
Irmeli. Nykydraaman ihmiskuva: analyyseja 1900-luvun eurooppalaisista
näytelmistä. Helsinki: Tammi, 1969, 81-92: ‘“Aito epäitsekkyys pystyy mihin
tahansa”: Georg Bernard Shaw, Majuri Barbara’
Noel,
Thomas. ‘Major Barbara and her male generals.’ Shaw Review 22 1979
135-41
Ozy
[pseud.]. ‘The dramatist’s dilemma: an interpretation of Major Barbara.’
Shaw Bulletin 2 iv 1958 18-24; Arthur H. Nethercot. ‘Major Barbara:
rebuttal and addendum.’ Shaw Bulletin 2 v 1958 20-21
Pagliaro,
Harold E. Relations between the sexes in the plays of George Bernard Shaw.
Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Pr., 2004, 32-42
Pedersen,
Lisë. ‘Ducats and daughters in The Merchant of Venice and Major
Barbara.’ SHAW 4 1984 69-86
Pierson,
Stanley. British socialists: the journey from fantasy to politics.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1979, 102-12: ‘The two worlds of George Bernard
Shaw’ (part on the play)
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 (incorporates ‘The
rhetoric of a Shavian exposition: Act I of Major Barbara.’ Modern
Drama 26 1983 62-74)
Rao, Valli.
‘The job archetype in Major Barbara: prelude to a Blakean reading.’
Journal of Myth, Fantasy and Romanticism 1 iii 1992 91-105
Rayner,
Alice. Comic persuasion: moral structure in British comedy from Shakespeare
to Stoppard. Berkeley: Univ. of California Pr., 1987, 104-28: ‘Shaw’s
paradox: use in Dystopia’ (stresses the play)
Reidinger,
Otto. ‘Ethelbert Stauffer und George Bernard Shaw: Major Barbara in
theologischer Auslegung.’ Monatsschrift für Pastoraltheologie 51 1962
360-67
Reynolds,
Jean. Pygmalion's wordplay: the postmodern Shaw. Gainesville: UP of
Florida, 1999, 67-74
Rogers,
Kevin E. ‘The Macchiavellian tendencies of Adolphus Cusins.’ SHAW 12
1992 261-70
Russell,
Annie. ‘George Bernard Shaw at rehearsals of Major Barbara.’ Shaw
Review 19 1976 73-82
Schoeps,
Karl H. Bertolt Brecht und Bernard Shaw. Bonn: Bouvier, 1974, 30-51
Schuchter,
J. D. ‘Shaw’s Major Barbara.’ Explicator 28 1970 item 74 (the
name Barbara)
Schwanitz,
Dietrich. Die Wirklichkeit der Inszenierung und die Inszenierung der
Wirklichkeit. Meisenheim: Hain, 1977, 189-94
Smith, J.
Percy. ‘Shaw’s own problem play: Major Barbara.’ English Studies in
Canada 4 1978 450-67
Stewart, J.
I. M. Eight modern writers. Oxford: Clarendon Pr., 1963, 155-63
Tetzeli von
Rosador, Kurt. ‘The natural history of Major Barbara.’ Modern Drama
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Whittock,
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Adams,
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‘Mendoza and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.’ Shaw Review 10 1967 2-5
Anniah
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Don. ‘The structural meaning of Man and Superman.’ Shavian 4 1971
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Barnett,
Gene A. ‘Don Juan’s Hell.’ Ball State University Forum 11 ii 1970 47-52
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Fredric. ‘Structure and philosophy in Man and Superman and Major
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autobiography’
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‘Superman theater: gusts, galumphs, and grumps.’ SHAW 16 1996 195-202
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Bertolini,
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Foster,
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Grau,
Jacinto. Don Juan en el tiempo y en el espacio. Buenos Aires: Raigal,
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Grimm,
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Grunwald,
Henry A. ‘The disappearance of Don Juan.’ Horizon 4 i 1962 56-65
Hermann,
István. A személyiség nyomában: drámai kalauz. Budapest: MagvetÅ, 1972, 418-28: ‘A szocialista milliomos: Shaw, Tanner
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Charles L. ‘Mozart, Shaw and Man and Superman.’ Shaw Review 9
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Hoy, Cyrus.
‘Shaw’s tragicomic irony: from Man and Superman to Heartbreak House.’
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Hugo, Leon
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Innes, Christopher. Modern British drama: the twentieth
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Irvine,
William. The universe of G.B.S. NY: McGraw-Hill, 1949, 235-48: ‘Man
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Jacobs,
Hans J. Don Juan—heute: die ‘Don Juan-Figur’ im Drama des zwanzigsten
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Klaiƒ, Dragan. The plot of the
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Kuhnelt,
Harro. ‘Don Juan in der englischen Literatur: “Don Juan—wie Mozarts susse
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Larik, K.
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Lawrence,
Kenneth. ‘Bernard Shaw: the career of the Life Force.’ Modern Drama 15
1972 130-46 (Man and Superman, Back to Methuselah, and The
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Daniel J. ‘Shaw’s use of stylized characters and speech in Man and Superman.’
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McDowell,
Frederick P. W. ‘Heaven, Hell, and turn-of-the-century London: reflections upon
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McFarland,
Carlyle A. ‘Man and Superman, Shaw’s statement on creative evolution: a
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Meisel,
Martin. Shaw and the nineteenth-century theater. Princeton, NJ:
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also index
Menascé,
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Mills, Carl
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‘Shaw’s debt to Lester Ward in Man and Superman.’ Shaw Review 14
1971 2-13 (the controversial ‘gynaeocentric theory’ of the sexes)
-----.
‘Shaw’s superman: a re-examination.’ Shaw Review 13 1970 48-58; repr. on
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Morgan,
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‘Bernard Shaw, Miss Alliance and Miss Cotterill.’ English Language Notes
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-----. ‘A
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Amalric,
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Geoffrey. ‘Literary relations of Shaw’s Mrs. Warren.’ Philological Quarterly
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text; they include ‘Prostitution in Victorian England,’ 182-99, and ‘Vivie Warren’s
Cambridge,’ 215-36
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Gladys M. ‘Directing early Shaw: acting and meaning in Mrs. Warren’s
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Jill. ‘The New Woman and the new life.’ Pp 17-36 in Viv Gardner & Susan
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-----. Money
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1980, 34-41
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James. ‘Edy Craig and the Pioneer Players’ production of Mrs. Warren’s
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-----. ‘Two
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Marker,
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Marshik,
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133-38, and index
Morgan,
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