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PART TWO: WORKS ABOUT SPECIFIC PLAYS: S Through Z

 

 

Saint Joan  (see also ‘Shaw’s Screenplays’)

 

Gibbs, A. M., ed. Bernard Shaw: Man and Superman and Saint Joan: a casebook. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992. 235 pp

 

Weintraub, Stanley, ed. Saint Joan fifty years after, 1923/24-1973/74. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1973. 259 pp

 

 

Abbott, Anthony S. Shaw and Christianity. NY: Seabury Pr., 1965, 157-73: ‘Saint Joan

 

Astell, Ann W. Joan of Arc and sacrificial authorship. Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame UP, 2003, 123-31, 149-51

 

Austin, Don. ‘Comedy through tragedy: dramatic structure in Saint Joan.’ Shaw Review 8 1965 52-62

 

Barfoot, C. C. ‘By way of an introduction: the case of Saint Joan.’ Pp 1-14 in Barfoot & Rias van den Doel, eds. Ritual remembering: history, myth and politics in Anglo-Irish drama. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1995 (Costerus 99)

 

Bartlett, Sally A. ‘Fantasy as internal mimesis in Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan.’ Notes on Modern Irish Literature 3 1991 5-12

 

Becker, William. ‘Joan and Margaret.’ Hudson Review 4 1952 597-602 (critique of Margaret Webster’s production at the Guild Theatre)

 

Bécsy, Tamás. A drámamodellek és a mai dráma. Budapest: Akadémiai, 1974, 284-88: ‘Szent Johanna

 

Bermel, Albert. Contradictory characters: an interpretation of the modern theatre. NY: Dutton, 1973, 185-206: ‘The virgin as heretic: Saint Joan

 

Berst, Charles A. ‘As kingfishers catch fire: the saints and poetics of Shaw and T. S. Eliot.’ SHAW 14 1994 105-25

 

-----. Bernard Shaw and the art of drama. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Pr., 1973, 259-92: ‘Saint Joan: spiritual epic as tragicomedy’; 259-60 and 268-76 repr. on pp 187-95 in Gibbs

 

Bertolini, John A. The playwrighting self of Bernard Shaw. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1991, 123-44: ‘Saint Joan: the self as imagination’ (from ‘Imagining Saint Joan.’ SHAW 3 1983 149-61)

 

Bhalla, Alok. ‘An obstinate margin in tragedy: Shaw’s Saint Joan.’ Quest 54 1967 45-51

 

Biasio, Laura del Giudice. ‘Giovanna d’Arco nel dramma de Schiller ed in quello di Shaw: crisi individuale e crisi sociale.’ Annuario (Liceo-Ginnasio Statale ‘G. Palmierii,’ Lecce) 1960-61 59-79

 

Bloom, Harold, ed. George Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan: modern critical interpretations. NY: Chelsea, 1987. 147 pp (repr. essays, except for introduction by editor)

 

Boas, Frederick S. ‘Joan of Arc in Shakespeare, Schiller, and Shaw.’ Shakespeare Quarterly 2 1951 35-45

 

Brooks, Cleanth, John T. Purser, & Robert Penn Warren. An approach to literature. NY: Appleton, Century, Crofts, 1964, 619-22: ‘Discussion [of Saint Joan]’

 

Chaning-Pearce, M. The terrible crystal: studies in Kierkegaard and modern Christianity. NY: Oxford, 1941, 194-201: ‘Beyond the tragic climax’

 

Ciarletta, Nicola. Agnus volontario: dalla ‘persona’ alla persona. Rome: Bulzoni, 1974, 312-17

 

Cohen, M. A. ‘The “Shavianization” of Cauchon.’ Shaw Review 20 1977 63-70; repr. on pp 203-13 in Gibbs

 

Conolly, L. W. ‘GBS and the BBC: Saint Joan, 1929.’ Theatre Notebook 57 2003 11-24

 

Conolly, Thomas E. ‘Shaw’s Saint Joan.’ Explicator 14 1955 item 18 (on Joan’s use of archaic speech)

 

Crompton, Louis. Shaw the dramatist. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Pr., 1969, 193-214; largely repr. on pp 170-80 in Gibbs

 

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)

 

Cummings, Constance. ‘Playing Joan on radio and television.’ SHAW 4 1984 139-47

 

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

 

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, 50-65: ‘Das Problem der Gewissens- und Willensfreiheit im sozialen deterministischen Drama’

 

DiSalvo, Jacqueline. ‘Milton and Shaw once more: Samson Agonistes and St. Joan.’ Milton Quarterly 22 1988 115-20

 

Dolis, John J. ‘Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan: language is not enough.’ Massachusetts Studies in English 4 iv 1974 17-25

 

Dukore, Bernard F. ‘[Barnes’s] Red Noses and Saint Joan.’ Modern Drama 30 1987 340-51

 

-----. Bernard Shaw, playwright: aspects of Shavian drama. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Pr., 1973, 135-44, 256-58

 

-----. ‘Brecht’s Shavian saint.’ Quarterly Journal of Speech 50 1964 136-39; repr. in California Shavian 5 iv 1964 1-4

 

-----. ‘Introduction.’ Pp xi-xliii in Shaw. Saint Joan: a screenplay. Seattle: Univ. of Washington Pr., 1968

 

-----. ‘“Responsibility to another”? Graham Greene’s screen version of Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan.’ Theatre History Studies 16 1996 3-13

 

Eastman, Fred. Christ in the drama: a study of the influence of Christ on the drama of England and America. NY: Macmillan, 1947, 54-60

 

Esslinger-Carr, Pat M. ‘The epilogue one more time: Shaw and the tragedy of waste.’ Western Humanities Review 29 1975 292-95

 

Fielden, John. ‘Shaw’s Saint Joan as tragedy.’ Twentieth Century Literature 3 1957 59-67; repr. on pp 185-96 in Weintraub, S

 

Fischer, Ulrich. Das Fortschritt im Jeanne-d’Arc-Drama des 20. Jahrhunderts. Frankfurt: Lang, 1982, 85-156

 

Gahan, Peter. ‘Fouquet’s Boccaccio.’ SHAW 22 2002 83-98 (the Dauphin’s bedside book)

 

Gainor, J. Ellen. Shaw’s daughters: dramatic and narrative constructions of gender. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Pr., 1991, 136-48

 

Gerould, Daniel C. ‘Saint Joan in Paris.’ Shaw Review 7 1964 11-23; repr. on pp 201-19 in Weintraub, S (the one play Frenchmen could comprehend)

 

Ghosh, P. C. ‘Shaw’s saint play.’ Bulletin of the Department of English, Calcutta 4 i-ii 1963 1-12

 

Gibbs, A. M. Bernard Shaw: a life. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2005, 372-74 and see index

 

Gilman, Richard. Common and uncommon masks: writings on theatre 1961-1970. NY: Random House, 1971, 64-67: ‘The special quality of Joan’

 

Gordon, David J. Bernard Shaw and the comic sublime. NY: St. Martin’s Pr., 1990, 171-77

 

Gorelick, Mordecai. ‘Metaphorically speaking.’ Theatre Arts Monthly 38 1954 78-80, 91 (scenes that embody metaphoric meaning)

 

Gottschalk, Klaus D. ‘St. Athanasius gegen Saint Joan bei Shaw.’ Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht 13 1980 284-95

 

Grene, Nicholas. Bernard Shaw: a critical view. London: Macmillan, 1984, 132-50

 

Gribben, John L. ‘Shaw’s Saint Joan: a tragic heroine.’ Thought 40 1965 549-66

 

Griffin, Alice. ‘The New York critics and Saint Joan.’ Shaw Bulletin no. 7 1955 10-15; repr. on pp 451-57 in Smith

 

Gruber, W. E. ‘The imperfect action of comedy.’ Genre 10 1977 115-29 (part on the play)

 

Hall, Murray G. ‘Robert Musil und die Wiener Presse, mit zwei unbekannten Thaterkritiken.’ Literatur und Kritik 86-87 1974 368-80 (one is a review of the play)

 

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

 

Harben, Niloufer. Twentieth-century English history plays from Shaw to Bond. Totowa, NJ: Barnes & Noble, 1988, 22-62

 

Hegedüs, Géza, & Judit Kónya. Kalandozás a dramaturgia világában. Budapest: Gondolat, 1973, 204-15: ‘Szent Johanna

 

Hermann, István. A személyiség nyomában: drámai kalauz. Budapest: MagvetÅ, 1972, 405-17: ‘Az ember fölösleges: Bernard Shaw, Szent Johanna

 

Hernadi, Paul. Interpreting events: tragicomedies of history on the modern stage. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1985, 17-37: ‘Re-presenting the past: Saint Joan and [Anouilh’s] L’Alouette’; repr. on pp 153-67 in Harold Bloom, ed. Major literary characters: Joan of Arc. NY: Chelsea, 1992

 

-----. ‘Modern martyr plays beyond genre.’ Neohelicon 13 1986 141-62 (plays by Shaw, Eliot, Brecht, etc.)

 

Hill, Holly. Playing Joan: actresses on the challenge of Shaw’s Saint Joan: twenty-six interviews. NY: Theatre Communications Group, 1987. 253 pp (incorporates ‘Saint Joan’s voices: actresses on Shaw’s maid.’ SHAW 6 1986 127-55)

 

Hodgson, Terry. Modern drama from Ibsen to Fugard. London: Batsford, 1992, 104-12: ‘Shaw’s St Joan and the history play’

 

Holroyd, Michael. Bernard Shaw, volume III: 1918-1951: The lure of fantasy. NY: Random House, 1991, 70-93

 

Horsley, Lee. Fictions of power in English literature: 1900-1950. London: Longman, 1995, 73-82: ‘Martyred prophets: Buchan’s Prester John and Shaw’s St Joan

 

Hugo, Leon H. Bernard Shaw, playwright and preacher. London: Methuen, 1971, 195-206

 

Irvine, William. The universe of G.B.S. NY: McGraw-Hill, 1949, 320-26

 

Kasimow, Harold. ‘The conflict between the mystic and the church as reflected in Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan and Jean Anouilh’s The Lark.’ Mystics Quarterly 14 1988 94-100

 

Kaul, A. N. The action of English comedy. New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 1970, 284-327: ‘George Bernard Shaw: from anti-romance to pure fantasy’; 321-26 on the play; repr. on pp 242-46 in Weintraub, S

 

Kiberd, Declan. ‘Saint Joan: Fabian feminist and Protestant mystic.’ Pp 205-22 in Okifumi Komesu & Masaru Sekine, eds. Irish writers and politics. Savage, MD: Barnes & Noble, 1990

 

Korff, Hermann A. Lessing, Kleist, Schiller, Shaw, Anouilh: drei Vorträge. Frankfurt: Dausien, 1962, 59-87: ‘Die heilige Johanna bei Schiller, Shaw und Anouilh’

 

Lane, Clarinda. ‘Saint Joan through the eyes of Saint Bernard.’ Western Speech 22 Spring 1958 81-87

 

Leary, Daniel J. ‘The rest could not be silence.’ Independent Shavian 3 1965 40-42 (the Epilogue)

 

Lorichs, Sonja. The unwomanly woman in Bernard Shaw’s drama and her social and political background. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1973, 155-79: ‘Joan of Arc in Saint Joan: A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue: individualism versus authority’

 

MacCarthy, Anne. ‘History in Saint Joan.’ Shavian 8 viii 2000 9-12

 

Macksoud, S. John, & Ross Altman. ‘Voices in opposition: a Burkeian rhetoric of Saint Joan.’ Quarterly Journal of Speech 57 1971 140-46

 

Martz, Louis L. ‘The saint as tragic hero: Saint Joan and Murder in the Cathedral.’ Pp 150-78 in Cleanth Brooks, ed. Tragic themes in Western literature. New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 1955; repr. on pp 143-61 in Kaufmann and on 144-65 in Weintraub, S

 

Mateo Martínez, José. ‘Ironía y cortesía en el discurso dramático de Saint Joan de George Bernard Shaw.’ Atlantis: Revista de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos 14 i-ii 1992 121-44

 

Mayer, Hans. ‘Johanna oder die Vernunft des Herzens: über die Jeanne-d’Arc-Stücke von Schiller, Shaw und Brecht.’ Theater Heute 9 vi 1968 22-27

 

-----. Aussenseiter. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1975, 42-67: ‘Skandal der Jeanne d’Arc: Schiller, Shaw, Brecht, Wischnewski’; Outsiders: a study in life and letters. Cambridge, MA: MIT Pr., 1982, 29-51: ‘The scandal of Joan of Arc: Schiller, Shaw, Brecht, Vishnevskii’

 

McKeown, A. ‘Sainte Jeanne de Bernard Shaw: pourquoi une sainte?’ Études Medievales 1 2000 207-14

 

Meisel, Martin. Shaw and the nineteenth-century theater. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1963, 365-70 and see index

 

Meller, Horst. ‘Saint Joan.’ Pp 75-98 in Heinz Nyszkiewicz, ed. Zeitgenössische englische Dichtung: Einführung in die englische Literaturbetrachtung mit Interpretationen, III: Drama. Frankfurt: Hirschgraben, 1968

 

Mensching, Gerhard. ‘Die Kirche auf dem Theater: Shaw—Schnitzler—Brecht—Hochhuth.’ Pp 332-45 in Religion und Religionen: Festschrift für Gustav Mensching zu seinem 65. Geburtstag. Bonn: Roehrscheid, 1967

 

Merritt, James D. ‘Shaw and the pre-Raphaelites.’ Pp 70-83 in Rosenblood 2

 

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

 

Moloney, Karen M. ‘Saints for all seasons: Lavina Fielding Anderson and Bernard Shaw’s Joan of Arc.’ Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 36 iii 2003 27-39

 

Moran, James. Staging the Easter Rising: 1916 as theatre. Cork: Cork UP, 2005, 92-99 (the play’s analogies to the Rising and Roger Casement)

 

Morgan, Margery M. The Shavian playground: an exploration of the art of George Bernard Shaw. London: Methuen, 1972, 248-56; 251-56 repr. on pp 180-87 in Gibbs

 

Mukherjee, Tutun. ‘The rhetoric of voices and visions in Saint Joan.’ Pp 82-93 in Pandey

 

Nelson, Raymond S. ‘The visions of Saint Joan.’ Research Studies (Washington State Univ.) 38 1970 235-39 (sources)

 

Newton, K. M. In defence of literary interpretation: theory and practice. London: Macmillan, 1986, 83-114: ‘Shaw and tragedy’ (84-97 on the play)

 

Obraztsova, Anna. ‘A people’s heroine.’ Pp 220-29 in Weintraub, S (translated excerpts from a 1965 Russian book on Shaw)

 

Odin, Roger. ‘À propos d’une source trop négligée de la Jeanne d’Arc de George Bernard Shaw: hommage à Mary Hankinson.’ Revue d’Histoire du Théâtre 28 1976 242-65

 

Ormond, Leonée. St. Joan by George Bernard Shaw. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1986. 75 pp

 

Osborne, John J. ‘At sea: an exploration of implicit assumptions in Hamlet, Oedipus, and St. Joan.’ Cardozo Studies in Language and Literature 1 1989 199-210

 

Padma, M. ‘Saint Joan and religious experience.’ Literary Half-Yearly 31 i 1990 130-38

 

Pagliaro, Harold E. Relations between the sexes in the plays of George Bernard Shaw. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Pr., 2004, 198-203

 

Papajewski, Helmut. ‘Bernard Shaws chronicle play Saint Joan.’ Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift 6 1956 262-77

 

-----. ‘George Bernard Shaw: Saint Joan.’ Pp 171-87 in Horst Oppel, ed. Das moderne englische Drama: Interpretationen. 3rd ed. Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 1976

 

Pellew, C. Kenneth. ‘Portrait of a leader? George Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan.’ International Journal of Public Administration 28 2005 489-503

 

Peters, Julie S. ‘Joan of Arc internationale: Shaw, Brecht and the law of nations.’ Comparative Drama 38 2004-2005 355-77 (359-65 on the play)

 

Petzold, Dieter. ‘Aspekte des Dramas: George Bernard Shaw, Saint Joan.’ Pp 104-20 in Jobst C. Rojahn, ed. Einführung in das Studium der englischen Literatur. 2nd ed. Heidelberg: Quelle & Meyer, 1978

 

Pharand, Michel W. Bernard Shaw and the French. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2000, 149-93: ‘Shaw et Jeanne d’Arc’ (incorporates ‘From Shavian warrior to Gallic waif: Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan on the French stage.’ Pp 75-81 in Karelisa Hartigan, ed. Text and presentation 12. Gainesville, FL: Maupin House, 1992)

 

-----. ‘Saint Joan on the continent: Jeanne in Paris and Giovanna in Rome.’ Shavian 9 iv 2002-03 8-15

 

Puschmann-Nalenz, Barbara. ‘Jeanne d’Arc und der Mythos der Nationen in den Dramen William Shakespeares und George Bernard Shaws.’ Pp 246-56 in P. Csobadi et al., eds. Politische Mythen und nationale Identitäten im (Musik) Theater: Vorträge und Gespräche des Salzburger Symposions 2001, I. Salzburg: Anif, 2003

 

Raknem, Ingvald. Joan of Arc in history, legend and literature. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1971, 180-203

 

Reddy, K. Venkata. ‘Shaw’s Joan as a self-actualizing character.’ Pp 94-102 in Pandey

 

Rohmann, Gerd. ‘Shaws metabiologisches Testament in Saint Joan.’ Pp 494-507 in Otten

 

Roll-Hansen, Diderik. ‘Shaw’s Saint Joan on the stage: some early and some recent London productions compared.’ English Studies 71 1990 253-60; repr. on pp 296-304 in Peter Bilton et al., eds. Essays in honour of Kristian Smidt. Oslo: Univ. of Oslo, Institute of English Studies, 1986

 

Rosselli, John. ‘The right Joan and the wrong one.’ Twentieth Century 157 1955 374-83

 

Roy, R. N. George Bernard Shaw’s historical plays. Delhi: Macmillan, 1976, 44-78

 

Rudman, Harry W. ‘Shaw’s Saint Joan and motion picture censorship.’ Shaw Bulletin 2 vi 1958 1-14

 

Saint-Auclaire, Le comte de. ‘De Viviani à la Jeanne d’Arc de Bernard Shaw.’ Oeuvres Libres April 1953 107-38

 

Sathyanarayana Reddy, K. ‘The dialectics of sainthood: a study in Shaw’s St. Joan.’ Journal of Literature and Aesthetics (Quilon) 4 iv 1984 57-59

 

Schirmer-Imhoff, Ruth. ‘Saint Joan: die Quelle und ihre Bearbeitung.’ Anglia 74 1956 102-32

 

Schoeps, Karl H. Bertolt Brecht und Bernard Shaw. Bonn: Bouvier, 1974, 29-67

 

Schwartz, Alfred. From Büchner to Beckett: dramatic theory and the modes of tragic drama. Athens: Ohio Univ. Pr., 1978, 80-87

 

Searle, William. The saint & the skeptics: Joan of Arc in the work of Mark Twain, Anatole France, and Bernard Shaw. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1976, 97-144: ‘Bernard Shaw and The Maid: a vitalist view’

 

Silver, Arnold J.  Saint Joan: playing with fire. NY: Twayne, 1993. 129 pp

 

Slogsnat, Helmut. ‘G. B. Shaw, Saint Joan: ein Idealfall des Literaturunterrichts.’ Anglistik & Englischunterricht 9 1979 85-106

 

Smith, Warren S. Bishop of everywhere: Bernard Shaw and the Life Force. Univ. Park: Penn State UP, 1982, 127-32

 

Solomon, Stanley J. ‘Saint Joan as epic tragedy.’ Modern Drama 6 1964 437-49

 

Spector, Susan. ‘Disappointments of the Theatre Guild’s second St. Joan, 1951.’ Theatre History Studies 11 1991 63-79

 

Stafford, Tony J. ‘From hens’ eggs to cinders: avian imagery in Shaw’s Saint Joan.’ Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 40 1986 213-20

 

Steege, Viktor. ‘George Bernard Shaw: Die heilige Johanna.’ Pp 87-107 in Europäische Dramen von Ibsen bis Zuckmayer: dargestellt an Einzelinterpretationen. Frankfurt: Diesterweg, 1959

 

Stewart, J. I. M. Eight modern writers. Oxford: Clarendon Pr., 1963, 179-82; repr. on pp 162-65 in Gibbs

 

Stoppel, Hans. ‘Shaw and sainthood.’ English Studies 36 1955 49-63; repr. on pp 166-84 in Weintraub, S

 

Stowell, Sheila. ‘“Dame Joan, Saint Christabel.”’ Modern Drama 37 1994 421-36

 

Stürzl, Erwin, & James Hogg. The stage history of G. B. Shaw’s Saint Joan. Salzburg: Institut für Englische Sprache und Literatur, Universität Salzburg, 1975

 

Styan, J. L. The elements of drama. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1960, 146-48

 

Tetzeli von Rosador, Kurt. Das englische Geschichtsdrama seit Shaw. Heidelberg: Winter, 1976, 125-60 (144-53 on the play; from ‘Shaws Saint Joan und die Historiker.’ Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift 23 1973 342-55)

 

Thierfelder, William R. ‘Shaw’s Saint Joan.’ Explicator 44 ii 1986 32-33 (link to Parsifal?)

 

Thomas, Francis N. Writer writing: philosophic acts in literature. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1993, 72-103: “Bernard Shaw: historical exploration” (86-103 on the play)

 

Tyson, Brian F. The story of Shaw’s Saint Joan. Kingston, Ont.: McGill-Queen’s UP, 1982. 142 pp

 

Valency, Maurice. The cart and the trumpet: the plays of George Bernard Shaw. NY: Oxford UP, 1973, 368-91

 

Waltonen, Karma. ‘Saint Joan: from Renaissance witch to New Woman.’ SHAW 24 2004 186-203

 

Walshe, Eibhear. ‘“Angels of death”: Wilde’s Salomé and Shaw’s Saint Joan.’ Irish University Review 27 1997 24-32

 

Ward, A. C. ‘Introduction to Saint Joan,’ ‘Notes on the preface to Saint Joan,’ and ‘Notes on Saint Joan.’ Pp 175-208 in Shaw. Saint Joan. London: Longmans, Green, 1957

 

Watt, Stephen M. ‘Shaw’s Saint Joan and the modern history play.’ Comparative Drama 19 1985 58-86

 

Weintraub, Stanley. Shaw’s people: Victoria to Churchill. Univ. Park: Penn State UP, 1996, 162-77: ‘“Lawrence of Arabia”: Bernard Shaw’s other Saint Joan’ (first publ. as ‘Bernard Shaw’s other Saint Joan.’ Shavian 2 x 1964 7-13; repr. in South Atlantic Quarterly 64 1965 194-205; repr. on pp 230-41 in Weintraub, S)

 

-----. The unexpected Shaw: biographical approaches to G.B.S. and his work. NY: Ungar, 1982, 181-93: ‘The genesis of Joan’ (first publ. as introduction to Shaw. Saint Joan. Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1971, which was repr. as ‘The genesis of Saint Joan.’ Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht 10 1977 259-74)

 

West, E. J. ‘Saint Joan: a modern classic reconsidered.’ Quarterly Journal of Speech 40 1954 249-59; repr. on pp 125-40 in Weintraub, S

 

Whitman, Robert F. Shaw and the play of ideas. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1977, 267-74

 

Williams, Raymond. Drama from Ibsen to Brecht. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973, 149-52; repr. on pp 151-54 in Gibbs

 

Wise, Ivan. ‘Saint Joan on film.’ Shavian 10 iv 2007 2-7 (screen adaptations)

 

Wisenthal, J. L. The marriage of contraries: Bernard Shaw’s middle plays. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1974, 172-92; 185-92 repr. on pp 196-203 in Gibbs

 

-----. Shaw’s sense of history. Oxford: Clarendon Pr., 1988, 81-91

 

Woodbridge, Homer. George Bernard Shaw: creative artist. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1963, 116-26

 

Woodring, Carl. ‘Ricketts and Saint Joan.’ Columbia Library Columns 37 iii 1988 25-33

 

Zabrouski, Monica A., & Robert P. Kirschmann. ‘The ungendered will and the Shavian Superman.’ SHAW 26 2006 79-99 (83-87 on Joan)

 

 

Shakes Versus Shav

 

Bertolini, John A. The playwrighting self of Bernard Shaw. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1991, 169-71

 

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

 

Schubert, Berit B. [Enter Shakespeare]: der Dramatiker als Figur im modernen Drama. Frankfurt: Lang, 2002, 127-32: ‘Shakes Versus Shav

 

Wilshire, Lewis. ‘Shaw’s last play.’ English 8 1951 193-95

 

 

The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet

 

Abbott, Anthony S. Shaw and Christianity. NY: Seabury Pr., 1965, 108-18: ‘The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet

 

Dean, Joan F. Riot and great anger: stage censorship in twentieth-century Ireland. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Pr., 2004, 88-96

 

Haddad, Rosalie R. ‘Shaw and censorship: The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet (1909).’ Independent Shavian 39 2001 11-18

 

Holroyd, Michael. Bernard Shaw, volume II: 1898-1918: The pursuit of power. NY: Random House, 1989, 227-35

 

Matual, David. ‘Shaw’s The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet and Tolstoy’s The Power of Darkness: dramatic kinship and theological opposition.’ SHAW 1 1981 129-39

 

McDiarmid, Lucy. ‘The Abbey and the theatrics of controversy, 1909-1915.’ In Stephen Watt et al., eds. A century of Irish drama: widening the stage. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2000, 57-71

 

-----. The Irish art of controversy. Dublin: Lilliput Pr., 2005, 87-122: ‘The shewing-up of Dublin Castle: Lady Gregory, Shaw, and Blanco Posnet, August 1909’ (from ‘Augusta Gregory, Bernard Shaw, and the shewing-up of Dublin Castle.’ PMLA 109 1994 26-44)

 

Meisel, Martin. Shaw and the nineteenth-century theater. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1963, 215-22

 

Nelson, Raymond S. ‘Blanco Posnet: adversary of God.’ Modern Drama 13 1970 1-9

 

‘Symposium: The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet and The Man of Destiny.’ SHAW 14 1994 57-65

 

Yorks, Samuel. The evolution of Bernard Shaw. Washington: UP of America, 1981, 128-37

 

 

The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles

 

Abbott, Anthony S. Shaw and Christianity. NY: Seabury Pr., 1965, 174-90: ‘Shaw’s vision of judgment: The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles

 

Berg, Fredric. ‘Bernard Shaw’s The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles: a new approach.’ Modern Drama 36 1993 538-46

 

Dukore, Bernard F. Bernard Shaw, playwright: aspects of Shavian drama. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Pr., 1973, 120-30 (incorporates ‘Shaw’s doomsday.’ Educational Theatre Journal 19 1967 61-71)

 

Holroyd, Michael. Bernard Shaw, volume III: 1918-1951: The lure of fantasy. NY: Random House, 1991, 344-52

 

Hummert, Paul A. Bernard Shaw’s Marxian romance. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Pr., 1973, 175-81

 

Kamer, Hansruedi. Künstlerische und politische Extravaganz im Spätwerk Shaws. Bern: Francke, 1973, 127-39: ‘Eugenik und Revolution: The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles

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 as thesis dramas)

 

Leary, Daniel J. ‘About nothing in Shaw’s The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles.’ Educational Theatre Journal 24 1973 139-48

 

McDowell, Frederick P. W. ‘Spiritual and political reality: Shaw’s The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles.’ Modern Drama 3 1960 196-210

 

Meisel, Martin. Shaw and the nineteenth-century theater. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1963, 423-27

 

Morgan, Margery M. The Shavian playground: an exploration of the art of George Bernard Shaw. London: Methuen, 1972, 286-302

 

Nelson, Raymond S. ‘The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles: Shaw’s “last judgment.”’ Queen’s Quarterly 76 1969 692-706

 

Rao, Valli. ‘Seeking the unknowable: Shaw in India.’ SHAW 5 1985 181-209 (background of the play)

 

Sharma, Vinod B. ‘The heretic in Shaw: The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles.’ Pp 103-08 in Pandey

 

Silver, Arnold J. Bernard Shaw: the darker side. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 1982, 27-51: ‘The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles: defining the conflict’

 

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

 

Switzky, Lawrence. ‘The last word on last words: Shaw and catastrophic drama.’ SHAW 27 2007 190-

200

 

Weintraub, Rodelle. ‘Bernard Shaw’s fantasy island: Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles.’ SHAW 17 1997 97-105

 

Whitman, Robert F. Shaw and the play of ideas. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1977, 275-78

 

Yorks, Samuel. The evolution of Bernard Shaw. Washington: UP of America, 1981, 198-210

 

 

The Six of Calais

 

Bertolini, John A. The playwrighting self of Bernard Shaw. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1991, 163-65

 

 

Too True to be Good

 

Carpenter, Charles A. ‘The strategy and the bacteriology: scrutinizing the microbe in Too True to be Good.’ SHAW 27 2007 135-55

 

Dukore, Bernard F. Bernard Shaw, playwright: aspects of Shavian drama. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Pr., 1973, 231-42

 

Gatch, Katherine H. ‘The last plays of Bernard Shaw: dialectic and despair.’ Pp 126-47 in W. K. Wimsatt, ed. English stage comedy. NY: Columbia UP, 1955 (English Institute Essays, 1954); repr. on pp 459-72 in Smith

 

Holroyd, Michael. Bernard Shaw, volume III: 1918-1951: The lure of fantasy. NY: Random House, 1991, 255-71

 

Hopwood, Alison L. ‘Too True to be Good: prologue to Shaw’s later plays.’ Shaw Review 11 1968 109-18

 

Hugo, Leon H. Bernard Shaw, playwright and preacher. London: Methuen, 1971, 218-22

 

Hummert, Paul A. Bernard Shaw’s Marxian romance. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Pr., 1973, 161-66

 

Kamer, Hansruedi. Künstlerische und politische Extravaganz im Spätwerk Shaws. Bern: Francke, 1973, 97-112: ‘Relativität der Ethik: Too True to be Good

 

Leary, Daniel J. ‘Too True to be Good and Shaw’s romantic synthesis: a religion for our times.’ SHAW 1 1981 183-203

 

Martin, W. R. ‘GBS, DHL, and TEL: mainly Lady Chatterley and Too True.’ SHAW 4 1984 107-12 (‘T. E. Lawrence is in both’)

 

Matoba, Junka. ‘Too True to be Good: Bernard Shaw between two world wars.’ Studies in English Literature (Tokyo) 1981 45-59

 

McDowell, Frederick P. W. ‘The “pentecostal flame” and the “lower centers”: Too True to be Good.’ Shaw Review 2 ix 1959 27-38; repr. on pp 476-90 in Smith

 

Morgan, Margery M. The Shavian playground: an exploration of the art of George Bernard Shaw. London: Methuen, 1972, 258-71: ‘Farewell to Platonism: Too True to be Good

 

Muklewicz, Shannon. ‘Is Too True to be Good good at all?’ Independent Shavian 43 2005 25-37

 

Nathan, Rhoda B. ‘From Shaw to Beckett: the road to absurdity.’ Independent Shavian 36 1998 3-10

 

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

 

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

 

Weintraub, Rodelle. ‘Too True to be Good: the bottomless abyss following World War I.’ SHAW 19 1999 119-27

 

Weintraub, Stanley. Private Shaw and public Shaw. NY: Braziller, 1963. 302 pp (touches on resemblances between Private Meek and T. E. Lawrence); ‘The two sides of “Lawrence of Arabia”: Aubrey and Meek.’ Shaw Review 7 1964 54-57; repr. on pp 472-76 in Smith

 

-----. The unexpected Shaw: biographical approaches to G.B.S. and his work. NY: Ungar, 1982, 223-33: ‘The avant-garde Shaw: Too True to be Good and its predecessors’ (first publ. as ‘The avant-garde Shaw’ on pp 33-52 in Rosenblood; repr. on pp 341-55 in Smith and on pp 119-32 in Adams)

 

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

 

 

Village Wooing

 

Bertolini, John A. The playwrighting self of Bernard Shaw. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1991, 165-69

 

Everding, Robert G. ‘Village Wooing: a call for individual regeneration.’ SHAW 7 1987 221-41 (235-40: ‘Appendix: The beginnings of a stage history of Village Wooing’)

 

Gahan, Peter. Shaw shadows: rereading the texts of Bernard Shaw. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2004, 151-56

 

 

Why She Would Not

 

Laurence, Dan H. ‘Shaw’s final curtain.’ Shaw Bulletin 1 ix 1955 19-21; ‘The facts about Why She Would Not.’ Theatre Arts Monthly 40 1956 20-21, 89-90

 

O’Hare, John. ‘How the play reached publication.’ Theatre Arts Monthly 40 1956 22-23 (precedes text of the play)

 

Trilling, Ossia.’ Mysteriet omkring Bernard Shaws sidste stykke: Hvorfor Hun Idde Vilde.’ Danske Magasin 5 1957 20-25

 

 

Widowers’ Houses

 

Appasamy, S. P. ‘God, Mammon and Bernard Shaw.’ Commonwealth Quarterly 7 1978 98-112

 

Bringle, Jerald E. ‘Introduction.’ Pp xiii-xxx in Shaw. Widowers’ Houses: facsimiles of the shorthand and holograph manuscripts and the 1893 published text. NY: Garland, 1981

 

Carpenter, Charles A. Bernard Shaw & the art of destroying ideals: the early plays. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Pr., 1969, 33-41

                       

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, 24-40: ‘Shaws Debüt als Dramatiker des sozialen deterministischen Dramas’

 

Dervin, Daniel. Bernard Shaw: a psychological study. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 1975, 207-17

 

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

 

Dukore, Bernard F. Bernard Shaw, playwright: aspects of Shavian drama. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Pr., 1973, 275-81

 

-----. ‘Widowers’ Houses: a question of genre.’ Modern Drama 17 1974 27-32

 

Ganz, Arthur. George Bernard Shaw. London: Macmillan, 1983, 80-89

 

Gibbs, A. M. The art and mind of Shaw: essays in criticism. NY: St. Martin’s Pr., 1983, 42-49

 

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, 141-63: ‘Widowers’ Houses: die Karikierung idealistischer Verhaltensweisen’

 

Holroyd, Michael. Bernard Shaw, volume I: 1856-1898: The search for love. NY: Random House, 1988, 274-84

 

Hummert, Paul A. Bernard Shaw’s Marxian romance. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Pr., 1973, 54-66

 

Marker, Frederick J. ‘Shaw’s early plays.’ Pp 103-23 in Innes (104-11 on the play)

 

McDowell, Frederick P. W. ‘Widowers’ Houses: a play for the 1890s and the 1990s.’ SHAW 14 1994 231-40

 

Meisel, Martin. Shaw and the nineteenth-century theater. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1963, 127-30, 134-38, 161-68

 

Morgan, Margery M. The Shavian playground: an exploration of the art of George Bernard Shaw. London: Methuen, 1972, 23-30, 36-41

 

Nelson, Raymond S. ‘Shaw’s Widowers’ Houses.’ Research Studies (Washington State Univ.) 37 1969 27-37

 

Newton, Christopher. ‘The 9th of December 1892: going to the theater in the nineties—a fantasia in the manner of Sacheverell Sitwell.’ SHAW 14 1994 25-42

 

Oppel, Horst. ‘George Bernard Shaw: Widowers’ Houses.’ Pp 281-93 in Heinz Kosok, ed. Das englische Drama im 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts: Interpretationen. Berlin: Schmidt, 1976 (in German)

 

Ravindranathan, S. ‘The Life Force in the offing: a reinterpretation of Widowers’ Houses.’ Shavian 6 vi 1988 9-11

 

Roby, Kinley E. ‘Stap Street to Robbins’s Row.’ Shaw Review 18 1975 2-5 (background to the play)

 

Rockman, Robert E. ‘Dickens and Shaw: another parallel.’ Shaw Bulletin 2 i 1957 8-10 (Sartorius and Lickcheese may derive from Little Dorrit)

 

Roll-Hansen, Diderik. ‘Sartorius and the scribes of the Bible: satiric method in Widowers’ Houses.’ Shaw Review 18 1975 6-9

 

Sedlak, Werner. ‘Die Erstrezeption von G. B. Shaws sozialem Drama Widowers’ Houses in ihrem gesellschaftlichen Kontext.’ Pp 295-315 in Manfred Pfister & Bernd Schulte-Middelich, eds. Die nineties: das englische fin de siècle zwischen Dekadenz und Sozialkritik. Munich: Francke, 1983

 

Shattuck, Charles H. ‘Bernard Shaw’s “bad quarto.”’ Pp 170-82 in Studies by members of the English Department, University of Illinois, in memory of John Jay Parray. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Pr., 1955; also in Journal of English and Germanic Philology 54 1955 651-53, and in California Shavian 5 i-ii 1964 11-17

 

Valency, Maurice. The cart and the trumpet: the plays of George Bernard Shaw. NY: Oxford UP, 1973, 66-72, 79-86

 

Vogeler, Martha S. ‘Widowers’ Houses and the London County Council.’ Independent Shavian 24 1986 3-11

 

Weintraub, Stanley. ‘Shaw decides to become a playwright: July-December 1892.’ SHAW 14 1994 9-23

 

West, Alick. George Bernard Shaw: ‘a good man fallen among Fabians’. NY: International, 1950, 48-54

 

Woodfield, James. ‘Shaw’s Widowers’ Houses: comedy for socialism’s sake.’ SHAW 11 1991 47-64

 

 

You Never Can Tell

 

Behrman, S. N. ‘The Paddy vein.’ Prairie Schooner 35 1961 10-13 (also publ. as preface to the 1961 Univ. of Nebraska Pr. edition of the play)

 

Bertolini, John A. ‘Wilde and Shakespeare in Shaw’s You Never Can Tell.’ SHAW 27 2007 156-64

 

Carpenter, Charles A. Bernard Shaw & the art of destroying ideals: the early plays. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Pr., 1969, 127-39

 

Chirico, Miriam. ‘Social critique and comedic reconciliation in Shaw’s You Never Can Tell.’ SHAW 25 2005 105-26

 

Coxe, Louis. Enabling acts: selected essays in criticism. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Pr., 1976, 125-42: ‘You Never Can Tell: George Bernard Shaw reviewed’ (from Western Humanities Review 9 1965 313-25)

 

Dukore, Bernard F. ‘Dolly finds a father: Shaw’s dramatic development.’ Papers on Language and Literature 24 1988 81-90 (link with Major Barbara)

 

Fisher, James. ‘Harlequinade: commedia dell’arte on the early twentieth-century British stage.’ Theatre Journal 41 1989 30-44

 

Gainor, J. Ellen. Shaw’s daughters: dramatic and narrative constructions of gender. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Pr., 1991, 40-47

 

Gibbs, A. M. The art and mind of Shaw: essays in criticism. NY: St. Martin’s Pr., 1983, 90-103

 

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, 230-36

 

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

 

Hendrick, George. Henry Salt: humanitarian reformer and man of letters. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Pr., 1977, 140-58 (possible effects of the Salt family on the play)

 

Herman, Vimala. ‘Dramatic dialogue and the systematics of turn-taking.’ Semiotica 112 1991 97-121 (part examines a scene of the play)

 

Herr, Linda L. ‘Dickens’ Jaggers and Shaw’s Bohun: a study of “character lifting.”’ Shaw Review 20 1977 110-18

 

Holroyd, Michael. Bernard Shaw, volume I: 1856-1898: The search for love. NY: Random House, 1988, 383-93

 

Leary, Daniel J. ‘Introduction.’ Pp xiii-xxii in Shaw. You Never Can Tell: a facsimile of the holograph manuscript. NY: Garland, 1981

 

Leech, Geoffrey. ‘Pragmatic principles in Shaw’s You Never Can Tell.’ Pp 259-80 in Michael Toolan, ed. Language, text, and context: essays in stylistics. London: Routledge, 1992

 

McDowell, Frederick P. W. ‘Shaw’s “higher comedy” par excellence: You Never Can Tell.’ SHAW 7 1987 63-83

 

Meisel, Martin. Shaw and the nineteenth-century theater. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1963, 253-59 and see index

 

Morgan, Margery M. The Shavian playground: an exploration of the art of George Bernard Shaw. London: Methuen, 1972, 83-99: ‘Making the skeleton dance’ (from ‘Introduction.’ Pp 7-32 in Shaw. You Never Can Tell. Sydney: Hicks Smith, 1967)

 

Pagliaro, Harold E. Relations between the sexes in the plays of George Bernard Shaw. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Pr., 2004, 71-82, 145-47

 

Speckhard, Robert R. ‘Shaw’s therapeutic satire.’ Marabar Review 1 Summer 1964 94-99

 

Valency, Maurice. The cart and the trumpet: the plays of George Bernard Shaw. NY: Oxford UP, 1973, 146-54

 

Weintraub, Rodelle. ‘Extracting the roots of sorrow: You Never Can Tell as dream play.’ SHAW 18 1998 137-46

 

Weintraub, Stanley. The unexpected Shaw: biographical approaches to G.B.S. and his work. NY: Ungar, 1982, 97-104: ‘G.B.S. borrows from Sarah Grand: The Heavenly Twins and You Never Can Tell’ (from Modern Drama 14 1971 288-97)

 

Whitaker, Thomas R. Mirrors of our playing: paradigms and presences in modern drama. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Pr., 1999, 52-56 on the play

 

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