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O’Flaherty, V. C.
Gunby,
David. ‘The first night of O’Flaherty, V.C.’ SHAW 19 1999 85-97
Holroyd,
Michael. Bernard Shaw, volume II: 1898-1918: The pursuit of power. NY:
Random House, 1989, 379-81
Kosok,
Heinz. ‘“No war is right”: Shaw’s O’Flaherty, V.C.’ Shavian 9 vi
2003-04 3-8
Schrank,
Bernice. ‘World War I in the plays of Shaw, O’Casey and McGuiness.’ Études
Irlandaises 17 ii 1992 29-36 (30-32 on the play)
Weintraub,
Stanley. ‘Bernard Shaw’s other Irelands: 1915-1919.’ English Literature in
Transition 42 1999 433-42 (on the play and ‘The Tragedy of an Elderly
Gentleman’)
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Journey to heartbreak: the crucible years of Bernard Shaw 1914-1918. NY:
Weybright & Talley, 1971, 126-30
On the Rocks
Dukore,
Bernard F. Bernard Shaw, playwright: aspects of Shavian drama. Columbia:
Univ. of Missouri Pr., 1973, 290-95
-----. Money
& politics in Ibsen, Shaw, and Brecht. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Pr.,
1980, 142-53
Griffith,
Gareth. Socialism and superior brains: the political thought of Bernard Shaw.
London: Routledge, 1993, 260-62
Holroyd,
Michael. Bernard Shaw, volume III: 1918-1951: The lure of fantasy. NY:
Random House, 1991, 333-44
Hummert,
Paul A. Bernard Shaw’s Marxian romance. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Pr.,
1973, 168-75 (from ‘Bernard Shaw’s On the Rocks.’ Drama Critique
2 i 1959 34-41)
Kamer,
Hansruedi. Künstlerische und politische Extravaganz im Spätwerk Shaws.
Bern: Francke, 1973, 112-27: ‘Reform, Revolution und Reaktion: On the Rocks
(1933)’
McDowell,
Frederick P. W. ‘Crisis and unreason: Shaw’s On the Rocks.’ Educational
Theatre Journal 13 1961 192-200
Morgan,
Margery M. The Shavian playground: an exploration of the art of George
Bernard Shaw. London: Methuen, 1972, 272-86
Nickson,
Richard. ‘On the Rocks: messages given and received.’ Independent
Shavian 23 1985 27-36
O’Hara,
Michael M. ‘On the Rocks and the Federal Theatre Project.’ SHAW 12
1992 79-88
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)
Overruled
Holroyd, Michael.
Bernard Shaw, volume II: 1898-1918: The pursuit of power. NY: Random
House, 1989, 275-78
Valency,
Maurice. The cart and the trumpet: the plays of George Bernard Shaw. NY:
Oxford UP, 1973, 300-302
Passion Play (or Household of Joseph)
Berst,
Charles A. ‘In the beginning: the poetic genesis of Shaw’s God.’ SHAW 1
1981 5-41 (12-21 on the play)
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, 108-40: ‘Passion Play:
der Einfluss der Shelley-Lektüre auf Shaws ersten dramatischen Versuch’
Lindblad,
Ishrat. ‘Household of Joseph: an early perspective on Shaw’s
dramaturgy.’ Shaw Review 17 1974 124-38
Smith,
Warren S. Bishop of everywhere: Bernard Shaw and the Life Force. Univ.
Park: Penn State UP, 1982, 16-18
Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction
Hark, Ina
R. ‘Tomfooling with melodrama in Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction.’ SHAW
7 1987 137-50
Silverstein,
Paul. ‘Barns, booths, and Shaw.’ Shaw Review 12 1969 111-16
Un petit drame
Weintraub,
Stanley. ‘Un petit drame: Bernard Shaw’s first and hitherto unpublished
play.’ Esquire 52 1959 172-74 (includes the French text and an English
translation)
The Philanderer
Boxill,
Roger. Shaw and the doctors. NY: Basic Books, 1969, 126-33 (Paramore)
Carlson,
Susan. Women and comedy: rewriting the British theatrical tradition. Ann
Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Pr., 1991, 93-112: ‘Shaw’s The Philanderer: the
reformer’s women and the contradictions of comic freedom’
Carpenter,
Charles A. Bernard Shaw & the art of destroying ideals: the early plays.
Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Pr., 1969, 41-49
Dukore,
Bernard F. ‘Evidence and inference in The Philanderer.’ SHAW 18
1998 131-36
Gainor, J.
Ellen. Shaw’s daughters: dramatic and narrative constructions of gender.
Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Pr., 1991, 47-62
Gibbs, A.
M. The art and mind of Shaw: essays in criticism. NY: St. Martin’s Pr.,
1983, 58-68: ‘Old Adam and new Eve: The Philanderer’
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, 169-86: ‘The Philanderer:
Emanzipation und konventionelles Rollendenken’
Holroyd,
Michael. Bernard Shaw, volume I: 1856-1898: The search for love. NY:
Random House, 1988, 285-89
Kohl,
Norbert H. Bernard Shaws viktorianisches Erbe. Heidelberg: Winter, 1992,
172-97: ‘The Philanderer—Shaw in Nöten’; 219-37 prints the unpublished
third act (in English)
Meisel,
Martin. Shaw and the nineteenth-century theater. Princeton, NJ:
Princeton UP, 1963, 132-34, 251-54 and see index
Morgan,
Margery M. The Shavian playground: an exploration of the art of George
Bernard Shaw. London: Methuen, 1972, 30-35
Novack,
Julius. ‘Introduction.’ Pp xiii-xxvii in Shaw. The Philanderer: a facsimile
of the holograph manuscript. NY: Garland, 1981
Pagliaro,
Harold E. Relations between the sexes in the plays of George Bernard Shaw.
Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Pr., 2004, 111-17
Rix, Walter
T. ‘The Philanderer as an entry into the Shavian playhouse: from a
reading of the play to an understanding of Shaw’s dramatic work.’ Literatur
in Wissenschaft und Unterricht 20 1987 68-84
Smith,
J. Percy. The unrepentant pilgrim: a study of the development of Bernard
Shaw. Boston:
Houghton
Mifflin, 1965, 165-97: ‘Philandering and The Philanderer’ (rich account
of the biographical
background)
Turco,
Alfred. ‘The Philanderer: Shaw’s poignant romp.’ SHAW 7 1987
47-62
Tyson,
Brian F. ‘One man and his dog: a study of a deleted draft of Bernard Shaw’s The
Philanderer.’ Modern Drama 10 1967 69-78
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‘Shaw’s first discussion play: an abandoned act of The Philanderer.’ Shaw
Review 12 1969 90-103
Valency,
Maurice. The cart and the trumpet: the plays of George Bernard Shaw. NY:
Oxford UP, 1973, 86-92
Press Cuttings
Gibbs, A.
M. Bernard Shaw: a life. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2005, 303-05
Weimer,
Michael. ‘Press Cuttings: G.B.S. and women’s suffrage.’ Pp 84-89 in Weintraub,
R
Pygmalion (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
Adams,
Elsie B. Bernard Shaw and the aesthetes. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 1971,
133-37
Alexander,
Nigel. A critical commentary on Bernard Shaw’s Arms and the Man and Pygmalion.
London: Macmillan, 1968. 85 pp
Amkpa,
Awam. ‘Drama and the languages of postcolonial desire: Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion.’
Irish University Review 29 1999 294-304; rejoinder by Vic Merriman on
305-17: ‘Decolonisation postponed: the theater of Tiger Trash’
Anderlini-D’Onofrio,
Serena. The ‘weak’ subject: on modernity, eros, and women’s playwriting.
Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1998, 110-18: ‘Canonic dramatic realism’
(illustrated by this play and two of Ibsen’s)
Andrecht,
Ernst H. Sprachsoziologische Aspekte in der dramatischen Sprachgestaltung
Bernard Shaws. Frankfurt: Lang, 1976, 49-58: ‘Sprachvarianten und
Kulturbetrieb: zur Rezeption von Shaws Pygmalion’
-----. ‘Das
sprachsoziologische Interesse an kritisch-realistischen Dramendialogen: George
Bernard Shaws Pygmalion.’ Pp 341-58 in Ernest W. B. Hess-Lüttich, ed. Literatur
und Konversation: Sprachsoziologie und Pragmatik in der Literaturwissenschaft.
Wiesbaden: Athenaion, 1980
Appia,
Henri. ‘À propos de Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw phonétician.’ Études
Anglaises 27 1974 45-63
Baetens
Beardsmore, Hugo. ‘A sociolinguistic interpretation of Pygmalion.’ English
Studies 60 1979 712-19
Bauschatz,
Paul. ‘The uneasy evolution of My Fair Lady from Pygmalion.’ SHAW
18 1998 181-98
Bentley,
Eric. Bernard Shaw: a reconsideration. 2nd ed. NY: Norton, 1976, 119-26
Berry,
Patrick. ‘Teachers, capitalists, and class in Pygmalion and The
Millionairess.’ Independent Shavian 42 2004 51-59
Berst,
Charles A. Bernard Shaw and the art of drama. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois
Pr., 1973, 196-220: ‘Pygmalion: a potboiler as art’
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Pygmalion: Shaw’s spin on myth and Cinderella. NY: Twayne, 1995. 158 pp
Bertolini,
John A. The playwrighting self of Bernard Shaw. Carbondale: Southern
Illinois UP, 1991, 97-122: ‘Pygmalion: the self and the mother tongue’
Bingham,
Madeleine. ‘The great lover’: the life and art of Herbert Beerbohm Tree.
NY: Atheneum, 1979, 215-31: ‘Not getting on with Shaw’ (performing the play)
Bloom,
Harold, ed. George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion: modern critical
interpretations. NY: Chelsea, 1988. 144 pp (repr. essays except for
introduction by editor)
Briden, E.
F. ‘[Henry] James’s Miss Churm: another of Eliza’s prototypes?’ Shaw Review 19
1976 17-21 (in ‘The Real Thing’)
Brooks,
Harold F. ‘Pygmalion and [Ibsen’s] When We Dead Awaken.’ Notes
& Queries 1960 469-71
Bühler,
Renate. ‘Drei Lustspiele im Unterricht: Aristophanes Die Frösche,
Plautus Amphitryon, Shaw Pygmalion.’ Deutschunterricht 18
1966 88-106
Cassirer,
Peter. ‘Hur gick det sedan för Eliza Doolittle? En studie i dramats semiotik.’ Tidskrift
för Litteraturvetenskap 4 i 1975 33-51; ‘The hero in drama: an
investigation of a semiotic principle.’ Pp 853-57 in Seymour Chapman et al.,
eds. A semiotic landscape / Panorama sémiotique. The Hague: Mouton,
1979; ‘What became of Eliza Doolittle? A case study of the sign in fiction.’ Semiotica
44 1983 75-93
Cavell,
Stanley. Cities of words: pedagogical letters on a register of the moral
life. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2004, 409-20: ‘G. B. Shaw: Pygmalion
and Pygmalion’ (‘defiance of the remarriage genre’ in the play and film)
Cloud,
Random [pseud. of Randall McLeod]. ‘The psychopathology of everyday art.’ Pp
100-168 in G. R. Hibbard, ed. The Elizabethan theatre IX. Ontario, CA:
P. D. Meany, 1981 (125-31 on the play)
Crane,
Milton. ‘Pygmalion: Bernard Shaw’s dramatic theory and practice.’ PMLA
66 1951 879-85
Crompton,
Louis. Shaw the dramatist. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Pr., 1969, 141-51;
‘Improving Pygmalion.’ Prairie Schooner 41 1967 73-83
De Kuehne,
Alyce. ‘El mito Pygmalion en Shaw, Pirandello y Solana.’ Latin American
Theatre Review 2 1969 31-40
DeMoss,
Virginia E. ‘The probable source of Eliza Doolittle’s plumed hat in Shaw’s Pygmalion.’
Notes & Queries 22 1975 203
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, 85-106: ‘Pygmalion als Lehrstück
des determinischen Dramas’
Dinter,
Annegret. Der Pygmalion-Stoff in der europäischen Literatur:
Rezeptionsgeschichte einer Ovid-Fabel. Heidelberg: Winter, 1979, 138-43:
‘Die Emanzipation der Galatea: George Bernard Shaw’
Dolch,
Martin. ‘Pygmalion.’ Pp 322-30 in John V. Hagopian & Martin Dolch,
eds. Insight II: analyses of modern British literature. Frankfurt:
Hirschgraben, 1970
Dräger,
Paul. ‘Bissula—Eliza—Lolita: Priap als Sprachlehrer.’ Kurtrierisches
Jahrbuch 41 2001 73-109
Drew,
Arnold P. ‘Pygmalion and Pickwick.’ Notes & Queries 2
1955 221-22
Dukore,
Bernard F. ‘Alan Ayckbourn’s Eliza Doolittle.’ Modern Drama 32 1989
425-39 (in Intimate Exchanges)
-----. Bernard
Shaw, playwright: aspects of Shavian drama. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri
Pr., 1973, 60-64, 286-89
-----. ‘The
director as interpreter: Shaw’s Pygmalion.’ SHAW 3 1983 129-47;
revised in his Shaw’s theater. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2000, 140-55
-----. ‘The
middleaged bully and the girl of eighteen: the ending they didn’t film.’
Shaw Review 14 1971 102-06
-----. Money
& politics in Ibsen, Shaw, and Brecht. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Pr.,
1980, 9-18
Durbach,
Errol. ‘Pygmalion: myth and anti-myth in the plays of Ibsen and Shaw.’ English
Studies in Africa 21 1978 23-31; repr. on pp 527-37 in Byrne
Eisenbud,
Jule. ‘Possible sources of Shaw’s Pygmalion.’ Notes & Queries
24 1977 442-44
Eldred,
Janet C. ‘Reading literary narratives.’ College English 54 1992 512-39
(on stories that ‘foreground issues of language acquisition and literacy’—like Pygmalion,
the prime example)
Englert,
Uwe. ‘Versteinerte Weiblichkeit: zur Paradoxie vom lebendigen Totsein in Henrik
Ibsens Når vi døde vågner.’ Pp 193-219 in Günther Blaicher, ed. Death-in-life:
Studien zur historischen Entfaltung der Paradoxie der Entfremdung in der
englischen Literatur. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 1998 (the play
compared to Ibsen’s)
Gainor, J.
Ellen. Shaw’s daughters: dramatic and narrative constructions of gender.
Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Pr., 1991, 225-39 (repr. on pp 514-26 in Byrne),
254-57
Ganz,
Arthur. George Bernard Shaw. London: Macmillan, 1983, 176-86
Gibbs, A.
M. The art and mind of Shaw: essays in criticism. NY: St. Martin’s Pr.,
1983, 168-76: ‘The end of Pygmalion’
-----. Bernard
Shaw: a life. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2005, see index
Goldberg,
Michael K. ‘Shaw’s Pygmalion: the reworking of Great Expectations.’
Shaw Review 22 1979 114-22
Grawe, Paul
H. Comedy in space, time, and the imagination. Chicago: Nelson-Hall,
1983, 131-46: ‘Romantic comedy in perspective: Shaw’
Grene,
Nicholas. Bernard Shaw: a critical view. London: Macmillan, 1984, 101-13
Harvey,
Robert C. ‘How Shavian is the Pygmalion we teach?’ English Journal 59
1970 1234-38
Havely,
Cicely P. ‘Happy ever after? The ending of Shaw’s Pygmalion.’ English
Review 7 1996 26-29
Hilton,
Julian. ‘Theatricality and technology: Pygmalion and the myth of the
intelligent machine.’ Pp 156-75 in Hilton, ed. New directions in theatre.
NY: St. Martin’s Pr., 1993
Holroyd,
Michael. Bernard Shaw, volume II: 1898-1918: The pursuit of power. NY:
Random House, 1989, 324-32, 335-41
Hornby,
Richard. ‘Beyond the verbal in Pygmalion.’ SHAW 3 1983 121-27
Huggett,
Richard. The truth about ‘Pygmalion’. London: Heinemann, 1969. 195 pp
(narrative version of his play, The First Night of ‘Pygmalion’, based on
accounts of the first performance of Shaw’s play)
Hulban,
Horia. ‘Introduction.’ Pp xv-xxxi in Shaw. Pygmalion. Bucharest:
Albatros, 1990
-----.
‘Notes on style and substance in Shaw’s Pygmalion.’ Analele ÔÛiinÛifice ale Universit|Ûii . . . Iasi: Literatur| 18 1972 127-35
Joshua,
Essaka. Pygmalion and Galatea: the history of a narrative in English
literature. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001, 97-133: ‘Nineteenth-century Pygmalion
plays: the context of Shaw’s Pygmalion’ (incorporates ‘The mythographic
context of Shaw’s Pygmalion.’ Nineteenth Century Theatre 26 1998
112-37)
Kauffmann,
Stanley. ‘Stanley Kauffmann interview [with Bert Cardullo]: on Shaw’s Pygmalion:
play and film.’ Literature / Film Quarterly 31 2003 242-47
Kennell, Vicki R. ‘Pygmalion as narrative bridge between the
centuries.’ SHAW 25 2005 72-81 (fictional successors to Shaw’s treatment
of the myth)
Keunen, J.
‘Rond Pygmalion van G. B. Shaw.’ Dietsche Warande en Belfort 106
1961 392-403
Kirchner,
Gustav. ‘Shaw’s Pygmalion and Smollett’s Peregrine Pickle.’ Neueren
Sprachen 10 1952 409-17
Klass,
Philip. ‘“The Lady Automaton” by E. E. Kellett: a Pygmalion source?’ SHAW
2 1982 75-82; story reprinted, 82-100
Kranidas,
Thomas. ‘Sir Francis Bacon and Shaw’s Pygmalion.’ Shaw Review 9
1966 77
Kuehne,
Alyce de. ‘El mito de Pigmalión en Shaw, Pirandello y Solana.’ Latin
American Theatre Review 2 1969 31-40
Küsel,
Herbert. Zeitungs-Artikel. Heidelberg: Schneider, 1973, 302-12: ‘Shaw
übt sein Stück ein: aus der Bühnengeschichte des Pygmalion’ (1954 essay)
Kugler-Euerle,
Gabriele. ‘Educating Eliza, Rita and Frank! Rezeptionsorientierte Vorschläge
zur Behandlung von Bernhard Shaws Pygmalion und Willi Russells Educating
Rita im Englischunterricht der Sek II.’ Fremdsprachenunterricht 1997
2 91-99
Lauter,
Paul. ‘Candida and Pygmalion: Shaw’s subversion of stereotypes.’ Shaw
Review 3 iii 1960 14-19
Leary,
Daniel J. ‘From page to stage to audience in Shaw.’ SHAW 3 1983 1-23
(stresses the play)
Levine,
Susan S. ‘On the mirror stage with Henry and Eliza, or play-ing with Pygmalion
in five acts.’ Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies 3 ii 2001
103-25
Lorenzo-Modia,
María J. ‘Pygmalion: preeminencia del texto de la representación sobre
el texto dramático.’ Pp 289-99 in Vir bonus dicendi peritus: homenaje al
Prof. Pérez Riesco. Coruña: Servicio de Publicacións da Universidade da
Coruña, 2002
Lorichs,
Sonja. The unwomanly woman in Bernard Shaw’s drama and her social and
political background. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1973, 133-53:
‘Eliza and Clara in Pygmalion, a Romance in Five Acts: phonetics, class
discrimination and education of women’
Lunati,
Montserrat. ‘Quim Monzó i el cànon occidental: una lectura de Pigmalió.’
Journal of Catalan Studies 1999
Mabley,
Edward. Dramatic construction: an outline of basic principles.
Philadelphia, PA: Chilton, 1972, 153-72
Mafud Haye,
Consuelo. ‘Pygmalion de George Bernard Shaw: la dramatización de una
situación educacional.’ Nueva Revista del Pacífico 23 1983 42-47
Manvell, Roger.
Theater and film: a comparative study of the two forms of dramatic art, and
of the problems of adaptation of stage plays into films. Rutherford, NJ:
Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1979, 61-75: ‘Pygmalion’
Marjanoviƒ, Petar. O…ima dramaturga: ogledi i …lanci iz istorije srpske drame i
pozorišta. Novi Sad: Strañilovo,
1979, 190-208: ‘Povodom Šoovog Pigmaliona na beogradskoj sceni’ (from Pozorište
12 1970 626-39)
Marsh, Jan.
Spoken, broken, and bloody English: the story of George Bernard Shaw,
Linguaphone and Eliza Doolittle. London: Linguaphone Institute, 2002. 96 pp
Marshik,
Celia. British modernism and censorship. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006,
46-87: ‘Bernard Shaw’s defensive laughter’ (68-80 on the play; revised from
‘Parodying the £5 virgin: Bernard Shaw and the playing of Pygmalion.’ Yale
Journal of Criticism 13 2000 321-41)
Martin,
Sara. ‘Resistance and persistence: Pygmalion and My Fair Lady,
two film versions of G. B. Shaw’s Pygmalion.’ Enter Text: An
Interactive Interdisciplinary E-Journal for Cultural and Historical Studies and
Creative Work 1 ii 2001 37-60
Matlaw,
Myron. ‘The denouement of Pygmalion.’ Modern Drama 1 1958 29-34;
‘Will Higgins marry Eliza?’ Shavian no. 12 1958 14-19
Meisel,
Martin. Shaw and the nineteenth-century theater. Princeton, NJ:
Princeton UP, 1963, 169-77: ‘Pygmalion and Cinderella’
Mello
Moser, Fernando de. ‘Falares e idiolectos em Pygmalion, de G. B. Shaw,
como problemas de tradução.’ Pp 222-28 in Günter Holtus & Edgar Radtke,
eds. Umgangssprache in der Iberoromania. Tübingen: Narr, 1984
Miller,
Jane M. ‘Some versions of Pygmalion.’ Pp 205-14 in Charles Martindale, ed. Ovid
renewed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1988 (especially 209-10)
Mills, John
A. Language and laughter: comic diction in the plays of Bernard Shaw.
Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Pr., 1969, 50-58
Morgan,
Margery M. The Shavian playground: an exploration of the art of George
Bernard Shaw. London: Methuen, 1972, 169-75
Mugglestone,
Lynda. ‘Shaw, subjective inequality, and the social meanings of language in Pygmalion.’
Review of English Studies 44 1993 373-85
Myer,
Michael G. ‘Dickensian echoes in Shaw: Our Mutual Friend and Pygmalion.’
Notes & Queries 31 1984 508
Myer,
Valerie G. ‘Peregrine Pickle and Pygmalion.’ Notes &
Queries 28 1981 430-31
O’Connell, Daniel C. ‘Where do interjections come from? A
psycholinguistic analysis of Shaw’s
Pygmalion.’ Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 34 2005 497-514
O’Donnell,
Norbert F. ‘On the “unpleasantness” of Pygmalion.’ Shaw Bulletin 1
viii 1955 7-10
Otten, Kurt.
‘George Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion.’ Pp 130-53 in Oppel, ed. Das moderne
englische Drama: Interpretationen. 3rd ed. Berlin: Schmidt, 1976
Pedersen,
Lisë. ‘Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew vs. Shaw’s Pygmalion:
male chauvinism vs. women’s lib?’ Pp 14-22 in Weintraub, R (revised from
Shaw Review 17 1974 32-39)
Perteghella,
Manuela. ‘Language and politics on stage: strategies for translating dialect
and slang with references to Shaw’s Pygmalion and Bond’s Saved.’ Translation
Review 64 2002 45-53
Poppe, Reiner.
Erläuterungen zu George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion. 3rd ed. Hollfeld:
Bange, 1997. 68 pp (introduction for students)
Porten,
Lili. ‘The metamorphosis of commodities in Shaw’s Pygmalion.’ Differences:
A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 17 iii 2006 69-86
Putzell,
Sara M. ‘Another source for Pygmalion: G.B.S. and M. E. Braddon.’ Shaw
Review 22 1979 29-32
Quinn,
Martin. ‘The informing presence of Charles Dickens in Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion.’
Dickensian 404 1984 144-50
Renaux,
Sigrid. ‘Turgenev’s Doctor Shpigelsky: a prototype for Shaw’s Professor
Higgins?’ Revista Letras 33 1984 121-29
Reynolds,
Jean. Pygmalion’s Wordplay: the postmodern Shaw. Gainesville: UP of
Florida, 1999. 152 pp (incorporates ‘Deconstructing Higgins, or Eliza as
Derridean “text.”’ SHAW 14 1994 209-17)
-----. ‘The
talking cure.’ SHAW 26 2006 27-35 (Freud’s nickname for psychoanalysis
‘seems an apt label for Higgins’s transformation of Eliza’)
Richardson,
Henry B. ‘The Pygmalion reaction.’ Psychoanalytic Review 43 1956 458-60
Roll-Hansen,
Diderik. ‘Shaw’s Pygmalion: the two versions of 1916 and 1941.’ Review
of English Literature 8 iii 1967 81-90
Roy, Emil.
‘Pygmalion revisited.’ Ball State University Forum 11 ii 1970
38-46
Salama,
Mohammad R. ‘The aesthetics of Pygmalion in G. B. Shaw and Tawfiq
al-Hakim: a study of transcendence and decadence.’ Journal of Arabic
Literature 31 2000 222-38
Schwanitz,
Dietrich. Die Wirklichkeit der Inszenierung und die Inszenierung der
Wirklichkeit. Meisenheim: Hain, 1977, 162-68
Silver,
Arnold J. Bernard Shaw: the darker side. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP,
1982, 179-250: ‘Pygmalion: the two gifts of love’; 253-79: ‘The
playwright’s revenge’ (on his additions to enforce the finale)
Silvio,
Joseph R. ‘George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion: a creative response to loss
after early childhood trauma.’ Journal of the American Academy of
Psychoanalysis & Dynamic Psychiatry 23 1995 323-34
Smoker,
Barbara. ‘Pygmalion and My Fair Lady.’ Shavian 10 iii 2006 2-8
Solomon,
Stanley J. ‘The ending of Pygmalion: a structural view.’ Educational
Theatre Journal 16 1964 59-63
Sparks,
Julie A. ‘An overlooked source for Eliza? W. E. Henley’s London Types.’ SHAW
18 1998 161-71
Starks,
Lisa S. ‘Educating Eliza: fashioning the model woman in the “Pygmalion film.”’ Post
Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities 16 ii 1997 44-55 (the film’s
image of Eliza and its successors)
Thomas,
William A. ‘George Bernard Shaw and his institutional review board.’ Legal Studies
Forum 24 2000 549-53 (as protection for Eliza)
Todó,
Lluís-M. ‘Pygmalion in Barcelona.’ Chapman 88 1997 54-59
Valency,
Maurice. The cart and the trumpet: the plays of George Bernard Shaw. NY:
Oxford UP, 1973, 312-28
Vesonder,
Timothy G. ‘Eliza’s choice: transformation myth and the ending of Pygmalion.’
Pp 39-45 in Weintraub, R
Wazzan,
Adnan M. Essays in comparative literature: an Islamic perspective.
London: Ithaca Pr., 113-31: ‘Shaw’s and al-Hakim’s Pygmalion: an
analogy’
Weiner,
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