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PART TWO:   WORKS ABOUT SPECIFIC PLAYS

 

 

The Admirable Bashville

 

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

 

 

Androcles and the Lion

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

The Apple Cart

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

Arms and the Man

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

Augustus Does His Bit

 

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

 

 

Back to Methuselah

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

Buoyant Billions

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Joyce, Steven. Transformations and texts: G. B. Shaw’s Buoyant Billions. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1992. 135 pp (incorporates ‘The ice age cometh: a major emendation of Buoyant Billions in critical perspective.’ SHAW 7 1987 279-99 and ‘Translation and the shape of the text: Siegfried Trebitsch’s Zu viel Geld and George Bernard Shaw’s Buoyant Billions.’ Seminar 27 1991 136-52)

 

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

 

Li, Kay. ‘Hong Kong in Buoyant Billions: the exotic in Bernard Shaw.’ SHAW 15 1995 57-62

 

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

 

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

 

 

Caesar and Cleopatra

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Halawany, Mona el- . ‘The image of Egypt in G. B. Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra.’ Pp 125-40 in Hoda Gindi, ed. Images of Egypt in twentieth century literature. Cairo: Dept. of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, Univ. of Cairo, 1991

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

Candida

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

Captain Brassbound’s Conversion

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

The Cassone

 

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

 

 

Cymbeline Refinished

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

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’

 

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

 

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

 

 

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

 

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)

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

-----. ‘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

 

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

 

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

 

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)

 

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. ‘Heartbreak House: Shaw’s ship of fools.’ Modern Drama 21 1978 267-86

 

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

 

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

 

 

‘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

 

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. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1963, 370-79

 

O’Donnell, Norbert F. ‘Harmony and discord in Good King Charles.’ Shaw Bulletin 2 iv 1958 5-8

 

Roy, R. N. George Bernard Shaw’s historical plays. Delhi: Macmillan, 1976, 79-98

 

Tetzeli von Rosador, Kurt. Das englische Geschichtsdrama seit Shaw. Heidelberg: Winter, 1976, 125-60 (153-60 on the play)

 

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. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1991, 155-60

 

 

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. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Pr., 1973, 203-11

 

Gahan, Peter. ‘Jitta’s Atonement: the birth of psychoanalysis and “the fetters of the feminine psyche.”’ SHAW 24 2004 128-65

 

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. Ann Arbor, MI: Monograph Publs., 1979 (‘the’ translation is not Shaw’s but Matlaw’s, entitled ‘Gitta’s Atonement’)

 

Woodsworth, Judith. ‘In the looking glass: Bernard Shaw on and in translation.’ Pp 531-51 in Susan Petrilli, ed. Translation translation. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003 (from Athanor 12 iv 2001 128-45)

 

 

John Bull’s Other Island

 

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, 125-55: ‘Die ökonomische Grundlage des sozialen Determinismus’

 

Dukore, Bernard F. Bernard Shaw, playwright: aspects of Shavian drama. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Pr., 1973, 148-56, 223-27

 

-----. ‘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)

 

Ferrar, Harold. ‘The caterpillar and the gracehoper: Bernard Shaw’s John Bull’s Other Island.’ Éire-Ireland 15 i 1980 25-45

 

Gahan, Peter. Shaw shadows: rereading the texts of Bernard Shaw. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2004, 84-90

 

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’s other island.’ Pp 122-36 in Oliver MacDonagh et al., eds. Irish culture and nationalism 1750-1950. NY: St. Martin’s Pr., 1983

 

-----. ‘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

 

Hassett, Joseph M. ‘Climate and character in John Bull’s Other Island.’ SHAW 2 1982 17-25

 

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

 

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. ‘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

 

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)

 

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

 

 

Macbeth Skit

 

Dukore, Bernard F. ‘Macbeth Skit.’ Educational Theatre Journal 19 1967 343-48 (prints the text with a brief note)

 

 

Major Barbara

 

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

 

-----. ‘Barbara’s progress.’ SHAW 21 2001 81-93

 

-----. ‘Evangelizing the garden city?’ SHAW 19 1999 41-77

 

-----. ‘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

 

-----. ‘“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

 

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

 

-----. ‘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, Wendy. ‘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)

 

-----. ‘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

 

-----. ‘Dolly finds a father: Shaw’s dramatic development.’ Papers on Language and Literature 24 1988 81-90 (link with You Never Can Tell)

 

-----. ‘“Father Undershaft” and the kids.’ SHAW 21 2001 95-105

 

-----. ‘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)

 

-----. 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)

 

-----. ‘The time of Major Barbara.’ Theatre Survey 23 1982 10-11

 

-----. ‘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

 

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 and Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest and Pinter’s The Caretaker)

 

Harrison, David B. ‘A new source for Shaw’s Major Barbara.’ English Literature in Transition 28 1985 56-58 (an essay by Engels)

 

Hoeveler, Diane L. ‘Shaw’s vision of God in Major Barbara.’ Independent Shavian 17 1978-79 16-18

 

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)

 

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

 

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

 

-----. ‘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 17 1974 141-53; repr. on pp 477-93 in Otten

 

Turco, Alfred. Shaw’s moral vision: the self and salvation. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1976, 193-228

 

Valency, Maurice. The cart and the trumpet: the plays of George Bernard Shaw. NY: Oxford UP, 1973, 247-64

 

Ward, A. C. ‘Introduction’ and ‘Notes.’ Pp 143-200 in Shaw. Major Barbara. London: Longmans, Green, 1958

 

Watson, Barbara B. ‘Sainthood for millionaires: Major Barbara.’ Modern Drama 11 1968 227-44; repr. on pp 358-75 in Smith

 

Weintraub, Stanley. Shaw’s people: Victoria to Churchill. Univ. Park: Penn State UP, 1996, 56-72: ‘Bernard Shaw in darkest England: G.B.S. and the Salvation Army’s “General” William Booth’ (from SHAW 10 1990 45-59)

 

-----. The unexpected Shaw: biographical approaches to G.B.S. and his work. NY: Ungar, 1982, 149-57: ‘Four fathers for Barbara’ (first publ. on pp 201-10 in Weintraub & Philip Young, eds. Directions in literary criticism: contemporary approaches to literature. Univ. Park: Penn State UP, 1973); repr. on pp 502-13 in Byrne

 

West, Alick. George Bernard Shaw: ‘a good man fallen among Fabians’. NY: International, 1950, 127-41

 

Whitman, Robert F. Shaw and the play of ideas. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1977, 223-30

Whittock, Trevor. ‘Major Barbara: comic masterpiece.’ Theoria 51 1978 1-14

 

Wisenthal, J. L. The marriage of contraries: Bernard Shaw’s middle plays. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1974, 57-86 (incorporates ‘The underside of Undershaft: a Wagnerian motif in Major Barbara.’ Shaw Review 15 1972 56-64)

 

Wootton, Carol. Selective affinities: comparative essays from Goethe to Arden. NY: Lang, 1983, 61-72: ‘Shaw and Wedekind: power material versus power spiritual in Major Barbara and Der Marquis von Keith

 

Zimbardo, Rose. ‘Introduction.’ Pp 1-15 in Zimbardo (interaction of the ‘tragic truth’ and ‘comic design’)

 

 

Man and Superman

 

See also ‘Shaw and Nietzsche’

 

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

 

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

 

Amalric, Jean C. ‘Bernard Shaw: Man and Superman, bibliographie sélective.’ Cahiers Victoriens & Édouardiennes 24 1986 153-60 (meager)

 

 

Adams, Elsie B. Bernard Shaw and the aesthetes. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 1971, 115-19 and see index

 

Amalric, Jean C. ‘Lecture sémiotique de Man and Superman de G. B. Shaw.’ Études Anglaises 37 1984 412-23; translated as ‘Shaw’s Man and Superman: a semiotic reading’ on pp 89-107 in his Studies in Bernard Shaw. Montpellier: Université Paul Valéry, 1992

 

-----. ‘Shaw’s Man and Superman and the myth of Don Juan: intertextuality and irony.’ Cahiers Victoriens & Édouardiens 33 1991 103-14; repr. on pp 109-25 in his Studies in Bernard Shaw. Montpellier: Université Paul Valéry, 1992

 

Andrews, Alan. ‘From the page to the stage: the theatrical realization of Man and Superman.’ Pp 161-80 in Conolly

 

-----. ‘Mendoza and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.’ Shaw Review 10 1967 2-5

 

Anniah Gowda, Hennür H. Dramatic poetry from mediaeval to modern times: a philosophic inquiry into the nature of poetic drama in England, Ireland and the United States of America. Madras: Macmillan, 1971, 255-63 (on the Don Juan in Hell scene)

 

Austin, Don. ‘The structural meaning of Man and Superman.’ Shavian 4 1971 127-29

 

Barnett, Gene A. ‘Don Juan’s Hell.’ Ball State University Forum 11 ii 1970 47-52

 

Bentley, Eric. Bernard Shaw: a reconsideration. 2nd ed. NY: Norton, 1976, 152-57

 

Bentley, Joseph. ‘Tanner’s decision to marry in Man and Superman.’ Shaw Review 11 1968 26-28

 

Berg, Fredric. ‘Structure and philosophy in Man and Superman and Major Barbara.’ Pp 144-61 in Innes

 

Bermel, Albert. ‘Jest and superjest.’ Shaw Review 18 1975 57-69

 

Berst, Charles A. Bernard Shaw and the art of drama. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Pr., 1973, 96-153: ‘Man and Superman: the art of spiritual autobiography’

 

-----. ‘Superman theater: gusts, galumphs, and grumps.’ SHAW 16 1996 195-202 (followed by unpublished Shaviana on the play, 202-18, and notes, 219-20)

 

Bertolini, John A. ‘George Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman.’ Pp 197-213 in Jay Parini, ed. British writers: classics, volume I. NY: Scribner’s, 2003

 

-----. The playwrighting self of Bernard Shaw. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1991, 27-57: ‘Man and Superman: fatherhood and the self, or the philosophy of comedy’; repr. on pp 453-77 in Byrne

 

Blanch, Robert J. ‘The myth of Don Juan in Man and Superman.’ Revue des Langues Vivantes 33 1967 158-63

 

Bloom, Harold, ed. George Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman: modern critical interpretations. NY: Chelsea, 1987. 152 pp (repr. essays except for introduction by editor)

 

Bowman, David H. ‘The eugenicists’ handbook.’ Shaw Review 18 1975 18-21 (background to ‘The revolutionist’s handbook’)

 

Brower, Reuben A. ‘George Bernard Shaw.’ Pp 521-34 in G. B. Harrison, ed. Major British writers, II. NY: Harcourt, Brace, 1954 (includes analysis of the play)

 

Brown, G. E. George Bernard Shaw. NY: Arco, 1971, 44-60

 

Brustein, Robert. The theatre of revolt. London: Methuen, 1965, 213-20

Bryden, Mary. ‘Coils of the cobra: the predatory woman of Shaw and Beckett.’ New Comparison 7 1989 160-71

 

Carpenter, Charles A. ‘Notes on some obscurities in “The revolutionist’s handbook.”’ Shaw Review 13 1970 59-64

 

-----. ‘Sex play Shaw’s way: Man and Superman.’ Shaw Review 18 1975 70-74

 

Ciarletta, Nicola. Agnus volontario: dalla ‘persona’ alla persona. Rome: Bulzoni, 1974, 225-29

 

Cohn, Ruby. ‘Hell on the twentieth-century stage.’ Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature 5 1964 48-53

 

Corballis, Richard. ‘Why the devil gets all the good tunes: Shaw, Wagner, Mozart, Gounod, Bizet, Boito, and Stanford.’ SHAW 12 1992 165-80

 

Cortina, Augusto. ‘El Donjuanismo y Doña Juana de Tirso a Bernard Shaw en dos jornados y en éxodo.’ Instituto Popular de Conferencias, Anales de Buenos Aires 29 1944 69-82

 

Crane, Gladys M. ‘Shaw’s comic techniques in Man and Superman.’ Educational Theatre Journal 23 1971 13-21

 

Crompton, Louis. Shaw the dramatist. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Pr., 1969, 75-104 (partly repr. on pp 55-66 in Gibbs)

 

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

 

Dervin, Daniel. Bernard Shaw: a psychological study. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 1975, 237-66: ‘Man and Superman

 

De Vincentiis, Silvana. ‘Metamorfosi di Don Giovanni: da Tirso a Shaw.’ Lingua e Stile 17 1982 295-315

 

Dolgonos, Berta. ‘Del Don Juan de Molière al Hombre y Superhombre de Bernard Shaw.’ Davar (Argentina) 58 May-June 1955 82-87

 

Dombrowski, Eileen. ‘Shaw’s Mozartian Ana: Don Giovanni and Man and Superman.’ Shavian 5 1975 15-21

 

Dukore, Bernard F. Bernard Shaw, playwright: aspects of Shavian drama. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Pr., 1973, 107-10, 166-74, 242-48

 

-----. ‘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)

 

Emmett, V. J. ‘Roebuck Ramsden’s study: Shaw as philosophical conservative.’ Journal of Irish Literature 11 iii 1982 103-08

 

England, Alan W. Man and Superman. Oxford: Blackwell, 1968. 63 pp

 

Evans, T. F. ‘Man and Superman: notes for a stage history.’ SHAW 3 1983 79-101

 

Foster, Brian. ‘A Shavian allusion.’ Notes & Queries 8 1961 106-07 (Octavius’s nickname); retort: C. J. P. Beatty. ‘A Shavian allusion.’ Notes & Queries 8 1961 232-33

 

Gahan, Peter. Shaw shadows: rereading the texts of Bernard Shaw. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2004, 9-11 and see index

 

Gainor, J. Ellen. Shaw’s daughters: dramatic and narrative constructions of gender. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Pr., 1991, 202-12

 

Ganz, Arthur. ‘Don Giovanni Shavianized: Man and Superman as Mozartean commentary.’ Opera Quarterly 13 i 1996 21-28

 

-----. George Bernard Shaw. London: Macmillan, 1983, 135-47

 

Ganz, Margaret. Humor, irony, and the realm of madness: psychological studies in Dickens, Butler, and others. NY AMS Pr., 1990, 217-50: ‘Humor’s devaluations in a modern idiom: the Don Juan plays of Shaw, Frisch, and Montherlant’ (expanded from New York Literary Forum 1 1979 87-94)

 

Gassner, John. The theatre in our times: a survey of the men, materials and movements in the modern theatre. NY: Crown, 1954, 156-62: ‘The Puritan in Hell’

 

Gauthier, Brigitte. ‘Instinct et intellect dans L’Homme et le Surhomme.’ Pp 65-75 in Brennan

 

Geist, Edward V. ‘Ann Whitefield and Hedda Gabler: two versions of Everywoman.’ Independent Shavian 24 1986 27-33

 

Gibbs, A. M. The art and mind of Shaw: essays in criticism. NY: St. Martin’s Pr., 1983, 122-39: ‘Comedy and philosophy in Man and Superman’ (from Modern Drama 19 1976 161-75); repr., with one passage excised, on pp 100-111 in Gibbs

 

Glicksberg, Charles. The ironic vision in modern literature. The Hague: Nijhoff, 1969, 178-81: ‘The Shavian devil’

 

Gordon, David J. Bernard Shaw and the comic sublime. NY: St. Martin’s Pr., 1990, 110-18

 

Grau, Jacinto. Don Juan en el tiempo y en el espacio. Buenos Aires: Raigal, 1953, 205-08

 

Grene, Nicholas. Bernard Shaw: a critical view. London: Macmillan, 1984, 53-66

 

Grimm, Reinhold. Echo and disguise: studies in German and comparative literature. Frankfurt: Lang, 1989, 79-120: ‘Shaw and Supershaw: Shavian Nietzscheanism reconsidered’; also on pp 81-124 in Volker Dürr et al. Nietzsche: Literature and Values. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Pr., 1988

 

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 John házassága

 

Holt, Charles L. ‘Mozart, Shaw and Man and Superman.’ Shaw Review 9 1966 102-16

 

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, 120-45

 

Innes, Christopher. Modern british drama: the twentieth century. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002, 13-54: ‘Defining modernism: George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)’ (33-39 on the play)

 

Irvine, William. The universe of G.B.S. NY: McGraw-Hill, 1949, 235-48: ‘Man and Superman: a step in Shavian disillusionment’ (from Huntington Library Quarterly 10 1947 209-24)

 

Jacobs, Hans J. Don Juan—heute: die ‘Don Juan-Figur’ im Drama des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts: Mythos und Konfiguration. Rheinbach-Merzbach: CMZ, 1989, 49-101

 

Johnson, James L. ‘Tiffany diamonds and classical music as influences on Paul Gregory’s production of Don Juan in Hell.’ Western Journal of Speech Communication 46 1982 266-75

 

Klaiƒ, Dragan. The plot of the future: Utopia and Dystopia in modern drama. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Pr., 1991, 49-52: ‘Shaw’s quest for a Superman’; original: Zaplet buduƒnosti: Utopija i Distopija u modernoj drami. Zagreb: Cekade, 1989, 73-77

 

Kuhnelt, Harro. ‘Don Juan in der englischen Literatur: “Don Juan—wie Mozarts susse Weisen” (Lord Byron).’ Pp 163-70 in Wege zu Mozart: ‘Don Giovanni’. Vienna: Holder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1987 (discusses Byron’s and Shaw’s Don Juans)

 

Larik, K. M. ‘Man and Superman: a classic creation.’ Ariel: A Research Journal of English Language and Literature (Jamshoro) 14 1988-89 1-11

 

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

Leary, Daniel J. ‘Shaw’s use of stylized characters and speech in Man and Superman.’ Modern Drama 5 1963 477-90; repr. in California Shavian 4 iii 1963 unpaged

 

Londraville, Janis. ‘Lady Griselda’s Dream: May Morris’s Man and Superman.’ Independent Shavian 33 1995 6-14

 

Mafud Haye, Consuelo. ‘El mito de Don Juan Tenorio y su modernización.’ Nueva Revista del Pacífico 27-28 1985 94-103

 

Mandel, Oscar. The theatre of Don Juan. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Pr., 1963, 547-51

 

McCauley, Janie C. ‘Kipling on women: a new source for Shaw.’ Pp 23-29 in Weintraub, R; revised from Shaw Review 17 1974 40-44 (on links more central than ‘Rikki-Tikki-Tavi’)

 

McDowell, Frederick P. W. ‘Heaven, Hell, and turn-of-the-century London: reflections upon Shaw’s Man and Superman.’ Drama Survey 2 1963 245-68; repr. (with excisions) on pp 45-55 in Gibbs

 

McFarland, Carlyle A. ‘Man and Superman, Shaw’s statement on creative evolution: a modern analysis.’ Panjab University Research Bul: Arts 18 ii 1987 75-80

 

Meisel, Martin. Shaw and the nineteenth-century theater. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1963, 177-83: ‘Man and Superman and the duel of sex’; see also index

 

Menascé, Esther. ‘Don Giovanni in Gran Bretagna dopo l’impasse Shaviana.’ Ragioni Critiche 67-70 1989 25-40 (plays by Flecker, Bennett, etc.)

 

Metwally, Abdalla A. Studies in modern drama, I. Beirut: Beirut Arab Univ., 1971, 18-37: ‘Don Juan in Hell: a Shavian tour de force’

 

Mills, Carl H. ‘Man and Superman and the Don Juan legend.’ Comparative Literature 19 1967 216-25

 

-----. ‘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 pp 133-43 in Adams

 

Morgan, Margery M. The Shavian playground: an exploration of the art of George Bernard Shaw. London: Methuen, 1972, 101-18: ‘Man and Superman: verbal heroics’

 

Morrow, Laurie P. ‘The playwright in spite of himself: George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman.’ World & I 18 2003 242-54

 

Nelson, Raymond S. ‘Shaw’s Heaven, Hell, and redemption.’ Costerus 6 1972 99-108; ‘Shaw’s Heaven and Hell.’ Contemporary Review 226 1975 132-36

 

Nethercot, Arthur. Men and supermen: the Shavian portrait gallery. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1954, 90-94, 278-82

 

Otten, Kurt. ‘Man and Superman.’ Pp 186-201 in Dieter Mehl, ed. Das englische Drama: vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart, II. Düsseldorf: Bagel, 1970 (in German)

 

Pagliaro, Harold E. Relations between the sexes in the plays of George Bernard Shaw. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Pr., 2004, 64-71, 175-81

 

Peters, Sally. Bernard Shaw: the ascent of the Superman. New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 1996, see index

 

Pharand, Michel W. Bernard Shaw and the French. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2000, 262-73: ‘Shaw’s protoexistentialism: in Hell with Jean-Paul Sartre’

 

Poks, Ma»gorzata. ‘Life Force in action: a study of Man and Superman.’ Pp 108-16 in Teresa Pyzik, ed. The mechanisms of power. Katowice: Uniwersytet Ðlski, 1993

 

Pollak, Paulina S. ‘Master to the masters: Mozart’s influence on Bernard Shaw’s Don Juan in Hell.’ SHAW 8 1988 39-68 (structural parallels)

 

Potter, Robert. The English morality play: origins, history and influence of a dramatic tradition. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975, 225-28 (Ann as Everywoman)

 

Reynolds, Jean. Pygmalion’s wordplay: the postmodern Shaw. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1999, 55-63

 

Saint-Paulien [pseud. of Maurice I. Sicard]. Don Juan: mythe et réalité. Paris: Plon, 1967, 241-52: ‘Le séducteur de Kierkegaard, et le Don Juan misogyne et socialisé de George Bernard Shaw’

 

Salmon, Eric. Is the theatre still dying?. Westport, CT: Greenwood Pr., 1985, 25-42: ‘Shaw and the passion of the mind’ (stresses the play; from Modern Drama 16 1973 239-50)

 

Seeber, Hans U. ‘The “hero” speaks: energy and verbal power in dramas of the turn of the century (Shaw, Synge).’ Pp 119-35 in Günter Ahrends et al., eds. Word and action in drama: studies in honour of Hans-Jürgen Diller on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 1994 (126-30 on the play)

 

Shershow, Scott C. Laughing matters: the paradox of comedy. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Pr., 1986, 124-37: ‘The Shavian solution’ (stresses the play)

 

Silver, Arnold J. Bernard Shaw: the darker side. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 1982, 119-75: ‘Man and Superman: erecting a creed’; 289-300: ‘The preface to Man and Superman

 

Singh, Devendra K. The idea of the superman in the plays of G. B. Shaw. New Delhi: Atlantic, 1994. 93 pp

 

Smith, Warren S. Bishop of everywhere: Bernard Shaw and the Life Force. Univ. Park: Penn State UP, 1982, 26-37

 

Solomonson, Michael. ‘Man and Superman: the Shavianizing of Friedrich Nietzsche.’ Independent Shavian 34 1996 54-59 (his radical revision of Nietzsche’s views)

 

Stamm, Julian L. ‘Shaw’s Man and Superman: his struggle for sublimation.’ American Imago 22 1965 250-54

 

Sterner, Mark H. ‘Man and Superman: drama as clash between social and spiritual exigencies.’ Pp 141-48 in Karelisa Hartigan, ed. Text and presentation: the University of Florida Department of Classics Comparative Drama Conference papers, volume IX. Lanham, MD: UP of America, 1989

 

-----. ‘Shaw’s superwoman and the borders of feminism: one step over the line?’ SHAW 18 1998 147-60

 

Stewart, J. I. M. Eight modern writers. Oxford: Clarendon Pr., 1963, 143-53

 

Stockholder, Fred E. ‘Shaw’s drawing-room Hell: a reading of Man and Superman.’ Shaw Review 11 1968 42-51

 

Tave, Stuart M. Lovers, clowns, and fairies: an essay on comedies. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Pr., 1993, 26-57: ‘These mountains make you dream of women: Man and Superman

 

Turco, Alfred. Shaw’s moral vision: the self and salvation. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1976, 145-71

 

Valency, Maurice. The cart and the trumpet: the plays of George Bernard Shaw. NY: Oxford UP, 1973, 200-236

 

Vogt, Sally P. ‘Ann and Superman: type and archetype.’ Pp 46-65 in Weintraub, R

 

Watson, Barbara B. A Shavian guide to the intelligent woman. London: Chatto & Windus, 1964, 59-64 and see index

 

Weinreb, Ruth P. ‘In defense of Don Juan: deceit and hypocrisy in Tirso de Molina, Molière, Mozart, and G. B. Shaw.’ Romanic Review 74 1983 425-40

 

Weintraub, Rodelle. ‘What makes Johnny run? Shaw’s Man and Superman as a pre-Freudian dream play.’ SHAW 24 2004 119-27

 

Weintraub, Stanley. ‘Genesis of a play: two early approaches to Man and Superman.’ Pp 25-35 in Rosenblood 2 (roots in his fiction)

 

Wexelblatt, Robert. ‘Epicurus and Aristotle—and Satan and Juan.’ SHAW 2 1982 47-55

 

Whitman, Robert F. Shaw and the play of ideas. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1977, 210-22 and see index

 

Wisenthal, J. L. The marriage of contraries: Bernard Shaw’s middle plays. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1974, 22-56 (incorporates ‘The cosmology of Man and Superman.’ Modern Drama 14 1971 298-306)

 

Woodbridge, Homer. George Bernard Shaw: creative artist. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1963, 56-62

 

Yorks, Samuel. The evolution of Bernard Shaw. Washington: UP of America, 1981, 100-107, 110-17, 120-23

 

 

The Man of Destiny

 

Berst, Charles A. ‘The Man of Destiny: Shaw, Napoleon, and the theater of life.’ SHAW 7 1987 85-118

 

Carpenter, Charles A. Bernard Shaw & the art of destroying ideals: the early plays. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Pr., 1969, 148-53: ‘The Man of Destiny and wilful versus theatrical motivation’

 

Gahan, Peter. Shaw shadows: rereading the texts of Bernard Shaw. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2004, 139-47

 

Gainor, J. Ellen. Shaw’s daughters: dramatic and narrative constructions of gender. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Pr., 1991, 114-19

 

Greiner, Norbert. Idealism und Realism im Frühwerk George Bernard Shaws: die Bedeutung und Funktion der Begriffe in den politischen, ästhetischen und dramatischen Schriften. Heidelberg: Winter, 1977, 284-96: ‘Der natural leader als Held in The Man of Destiny und Caesar and Cleopatra’ (287-91 on the play)

 

Horsley, Lee. Fictions of power in English literature: 1900-1950. London: Longman, 1995, 49-63: ‘Jesters and heroes: Chesterton, Shaw and Napoleon’

 

Keunen, J. ‘Napoleon in Shaviaanse stijl.’ Dietsche Warande en Belfort 115 1970 35-45

 

Peters, Suzanne. Briefe im Theater: Erscheinungsformen und Funktionswandel schriftlicher Kommunikation im englischen Drama von der Shakespeare-Zeit bis zur Gegenwart. Heidelberg: Winter, 2003, 268-72: ‘George Bernard Shaw: Private Niederlage und öffentlicher Skandal’ (268-70 on the play)

 

Pharand, Michel W. Bernard Shaw and the French. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2000, 197-208: ‘Shaw’s man of destiny: the decline and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte’ (revision of ‘Bernard Shaw’s Bonaparte: Life Force or death wish?’ pp 41-52 in Rusinko)

 

Roy, R. N. George Bernard Shaw’s historical plays. Delhi: Macmillan, 1976, 11-23

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

 

Valency, Maurice. The cart and the trumpet: the plays of George Bernard Shaw. NY: Oxford UP, 1973, 141-46

 

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

 

 

The Millionairess

 

Bosch, Marianne. ‘Mother, sister, and wife in The Millionairess.’ SHAW 4 1984 113-27

 

Dukore, Bernard F. Bernard Shaw, playwright: aspects of Shavian drama. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Pr., 1973, 295-99

 

Gainor, J. Ellen. Shaw’s daughters: dramatic and narrative constructions of gender. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Pr., 1991, 187-93

 

Hummert, Paul A. Bernard Shaw’s Marxian romance. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Pr., 1973, 182-89

 

Mazhar, Amal A. ‘The Egyptian doctor in G. B. Shaw’s The Millionairess: a metaphor of civilization.’ Pp 141-58 in Hoda Gindi, ed. Images of Egypt in twentieth century literature. Cairo: Dept. of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, Univ. of Cairo, 1991

 

Morgan, Margery M. The Shavian playground: an exploration of the art of George Bernard Shaw. London: Methuen, 1972, 326-33

 

 

Misalliance

 

Bosworth, R. F. ‘What’s in the name Szczepanowska?’ Shaw Review 8 1965 112

 

Crane, Gladys M. ‘Shaw’s Misalliance: the comic journey from rebellious daughter to conventional womanhood.’ Educational Theatre Journal 25 1973 480-89

 

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)

 

Dukore, Bernard F. Bernard Shaw, playwright: aspects of Shavian drama. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Pr., 1973, 94-101

 

Everding, Robert G. ‘Bernard Shaw, Misalliance, and the birth of British aviation.’ SHAW 8 1988 69-76

 

-----. ‘Bernard Shaw, Miss Alliance and Miss Cotterill.’ English Language Notes 25 1988 73-81

 

Gainor, J. Ellen. Shaw’s daughters: dramatic and narrative constructions of gender. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Pr., 1991, 131-35, 193-98

 

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

 

McDowell, Frederick P. W. ‘Shaw’s abrasive view of Edwardian civilization in Misalliance.’ Cahiers Victoriens & Édouardiennes 9-10 1979 107-23; also in Shaw Review 23 1980 63-76

 

Meisel, Martin. Shaw and the nineteenth-century theater. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1963, 307-14

 

Morgan, Margery M. The Shavian playground: an exploration of the art of George Bernard Shaw. London: Methuen, 1972, 187-99: ‘Bernard Shaw on the tightrope: Misalliance’ (the play’s relation to Granville Barker’s The Madras House; from Modern Drama 4 1962 343-54)

 

Pagliaro, Harold E. Relations between the sexes in the plays of George Bernard Shaw. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Pr., 2004, 82-90, 152-56

 

Quinn, Martin. ‘Dickens and Misalliance.’ Shaw Review 17 1974 141-43

 

Sharp, William L. ‘Misalliance: an evaluation.’ Educational Theatre Journal 8 1956 9-16

 

Sidnell, Michael J. ‘Misalliance: sex, socialism and the collectivist poet.’ Modern Drama 17 1974 125-39

 

Weintraub, Rodelle. ‘Johnny’s dream: Misalliance.’ SHAW 7 1987 171-86

 

-----. ‘A parachute prototype for Lina.’ SHAW 8 1988 77-84

 

Wisenthal, J. L. The marriage of contraries: Bernard Shaw’s middle plays. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1974, 127-35

 

Woodbridge, Homer. George Bernard Shaw: creative artist. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1963, 72-79

 

 

Mrs Warren’s Profession

 

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

 

 

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: Broadview Pr., 2000

 

-----. ‘Mrs Warren’s Profession and the politics of prostitution.’ SHAW 19 1999 23-39

 

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

 

Bermel, Albert. ‘A Shavian whodunit: the mysterious Mr. Warren.’ Independent Shavian 38 2000 6-15

 

Berst, Charles A. Bernard Shaw and the art of drama. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Pr., 1973, 3-19: ‘Mrs Warren’s Profession: art over didacticism’ (from ‘Propaganda and art in Mrs Warren’s Profession.’ ELH: A Journal of English Literary History 33 1966 390-404)

 

Bullough, Geoffrey. ‘Literary relations of Shaw’s Mrs. Warren.’ Philological Quarterly 41 1962 339-58; also in California Shavian 3 iv 1962 unpaged

 

Carpenter, Charles A. Bernard Shaw & the art of destroying ideals: the early plays. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Pr., 1969, 46-69

 

Chen, Wendy. ‘The first Shaw play on the Chinese stage: the production of Mrs Warren’s Profession in 1921.’ SHAW 19 1999 99-118

 

Connolly, L. W. ‘Mrs Warren’s Profession and the Lord Chamberlain.’ SHAW 24 2004 46-95 (a chronological documentary)

 

Crane, Gladys M. ‘Directing early Shaw: acting and meaning in Mrs. Warren’s Profession.’ SHAW 3 1983 29-39

 

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, 41-50: ‘Das erste Auftreten eines positiven Helden im determinischen Drama Shaws’

 

Dolid, William A. ‘Vivie Warren and the tripos.’ Shaw Review 23 1980 52-56

 

Dukore, Bernard F. Bernard Shaw, playwright: aspects of Shavian drama. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Pr., 1973, 70-79, 262-64

 

-----. ‘The Fabian and the Freudian.’ Shavian 2 iv 1961 8-11 (on causes of prostitution)

 

-----. Money & politics in Ibsen, Shaw, and Brecht. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Pr., 1980, 34-41

 

Fisher, James. ‘Edy Craig and the Pioneer Players’ production of Mrs. Warren’s Profession.’ SHAW 15 1995 37-56

 

Gainor, J. Ellen. Shaw’s daughters: dramatic and narrative constructions of gender. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Pr., 1991, 32-40

 

Ganz, Arthur. George Bernard Shaw. London: Macmillan, 1983, 91-99

 

Gibbs, A. M. The art and mind of Shaw: essays in criticism. NY: St. Martin’s Pr., 1983, 49-56

 

Grecco, Stephen. ‘Vivie Warren’s profession: a new look at Mrs. Warren’s Profession.’ Shaw Review 10 1967 93-99

 

Greer, Germaine. ‘A whore in every home.’ Pp 163-66 in Weintraub, R (program note for a 1970 production of 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, 186-208: ‘Mrs Warren’s Profession: die Entwicklung zu einer Realistin durch verschiedene Stadien idealistischen Bewusstseins und konventioneller gesellschaftlicher Herausforderung’

 

Innes, Christopher, 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)

 

Johnson, Betty F. ‘Shelley’s Cenci and Mrs Warren’s Profession.’ Shaw Review 15 1972 26-34

 

Kapelke, Randy. ‘Preventing censorship: the audience’s role in [Clyde Fitch’s] Sappho and Mrs. Warren’s Profession.’ Theatre History Studies 18 1998 117-33

 

Knepper, B. G. ‘Shaw rewriting Shaw: a fragment.’ Shaw Review 12 1969 104-10 (holograph versions of Act III compared)

 

Kornbluth, Martin L. ‘Two fallen women: Paula Tanqueray and Kitty Warren.’ Shavian no. 14 1959 14-15

 

Laurence, Dan H. ‘Victorians unveiled: some thoughts on Mrs Warren’s Profession.’ SHAW 24 2004 38-45

 

Lorichs, Sonja. The unwomanly woman in Bernard Shaw’s drama and her social and political background. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1973, 35-59: ‘Vivie and Mrs Warren’s Profession: prostitution and career’

 

-----. ‘Two mother characters in Bernard Shaw’s drama.’ Shavian 5 1975 5-8

 

Marker, Frederick J. ‘Shaw’s early plays.’ Pp 103-23 in Innes (115-22 on the play)

Morgan, Margery M. The Shavian playground: an exploration of the art of George Bernard Shaw. London: Methuen, 1972, 36-45

 

Mudford, Peter. ‘Mrs. Warren’s Profession.’ Shavian 6 v 1987 4-10

 

Nassaar, Christopher S. ‘Wilde's Lady Windermere’s Fan and Shaw's Mrs. Warren’s Profession.’ Explicator 56 1998 137-39

 

Nelson, Raymond S. ‘Mrs. Warren’s Profession and English prostitution.’ Journal of Modern Literature 2 1971-72 357-66

 

Nethercot, Arthur. ‘Mrs. Warren’s Profession and The Second Mrs. Tanqueray.’ Shaw Review 13 1970 26-28

 

-----. ‘The Vivie-Frank relationship in Mrs. Warren’s Profession.’ Shavian no. 15 1959 7-9

 

Oppel, Horst. ‘George Bernard Shaw: Mrs. Warren’s Profession.’ Pp 15-27 in Oppel, ed. Das moderne englische Drama: Interpretationen. 3rd ed. Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 1976

 

Pagliaro, Harold E. Relations between the sexes in the plays of George Bernard Shaw. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Pr., 2004, 123-27

 

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

 

Raby, Peter. ‘Theatre of the 1890s: breaking down the barriers.’ Pp 183-206 in Kerry Powell, ed. The Cambridge companion to Victorian and Edwardian theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004; on 222-36 in the same volume, see Sos Eltis. ‘The fallen woman on stage: maidens, magdalens, and the emancipated female’ (both essays treat the play briefly)

 

Radford, F. L. ‘The educative sequel: Lady Chatterley’s second husband and Mrs Warren’s daughter.’ Shaw Review 23 1980 57-62

 

Rao, Valli. ‘Vivie Warren in the Blakean world of experience.’ Shaw Review 22 1979 123-34

 

Salih, Sabah A. ‘The New York Times and Arnold Daly’s production of Mrs. Warren’s Profession.’ Independent Shavian 26 1988 57-60

 

Schrank, Bernice. ‘Mrs Erlynne, Mrs Warren and the nineteenth-century stage stereotype of the fallen woman.’ Pp 134-45 in Joseph McMinn, ed. The internationalism of Irish literature and drama. Gerrards Cross: Smythe, 1992

 

Stafford, Tony J. ‘Mrs. Warren’s Profession: in the garden of respectability.’ SHAW 2 1982 3-11

 

Sterner, Mark H. ‘The changing status of women in late Victorian drama.’ Pp 199-212 in Karelisa V. Hartigan, ed. Within the dramatic spectrum. Lanham, MD: UP of America, 1986

Strozier, Robert. ‘The undramatic dramatist: Mrs. Warren’s Shaw.’ Shavian 3 ii 1965 11-14

 

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

 

Thies, Henning. Namen im Kontext von Dramen: Studien zur Funktion von Personennamen im englischen, amerikanischen und deutschen Drama. Frankfurt: Lang, 1978, 207-23: ‘Tarnung der Vergangenheit durch Pseudonyme: “Gefallene Frauen” bei Wilde, Pinero und Shaw’ (217-23 on the play)

 

Turco, Alfred. Shaw’s moral vision: the self and salvation. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1976, 68-75

 

Valency, Maurice. The cart and the trumpet: the plays of George Bernard Shaw. NY: Oxford UP, 1973, 92-103

 

Wasserman, Marlie P. ‘VivieWarren: a psychological study.’ Pp 168-73 in Weintraub, R (revised from Shaw Review 15 1972 71-75)

 

Wellwarth, George E. ‘Mrs. Warren comes to America, or the blue-noses, the politicians, and the procurers.’ Shaw Review 2 viii 1959 8-16

 

Wendell, S. Johnson. ‘Fallen women, lost children: Wilde and the theatre of the nineties.’ Pp 196-211 in Don R. Cox, ed. Sexuality and Victorian literature. Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Pr., 1984

 

West, Alick. George Bernard Shaw: ‘a good man fallen among Fabians’. NY: International, 1950, 55-66

 

Wiley, Catherine. ‘The matter with manners: the New Woman and the problem play.’ Pp 109-27 in James Redmond, ed. Women in theatre. Themes in drama, 11. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1989 (part on the play)

 

Yae, Young-Soo. ‘Individual will and social environment in G. B. Shaw’s Mrs. Warren’s Profession.’ Journal of English Language and Literature 37 1991 213-32

 

 

O’Flaherty, V. C.

 

Gunby, David. ‘The first night of O’Flaherty, V.C.SHAW 19 1999 85-97

 

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 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’)

 

-----. 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

 

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

 

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’

 

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)

 

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

 

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

 

Valency, Maurice. The cart and the trumpet: the plays of George Bernard Shaw. NY: Oxford UP, 1973, 86-92

 

 

Press Cuttings

 

Weimer, Michael. ‘Press Cuttings: G.B.S. and women’s suffrage.’ Pp 84-89 in Weintraub, R

 

 

Pygmalion

 

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

 

Berst, Charles A. Bernard Shaw and the art of drama. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Pr., 1973, 196-220: ‘Pygmalion: a potboiler as art’

 

-----. 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 probably 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

 

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

 

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 Universitii . . . 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

 

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

 

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. Oima 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. ‘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

 

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’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)

 

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)

 

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-Hhakim: 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

 

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, Gary, ed. Readings on Pygmalion. Farmington Hills, CA: Greenhaven Pr., 2002. 186 pp (for high school students)

 

Weintraub, Stanley. Journey to heartbreak: the crucible years of Bernard Shaw 1914-1918. NY: Weybright & Talley, 1971, 2-12

 

Weissman, Philip. Creativity in the theater: a psychoanalytic study. NY: Basic Books, 1965, 146-70

 

Wisenthal, J. L. The marriage of contraries: Bernard Shaw’s middle plays. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1974, 118-26

 

 

Saint Joan

 

Gibbs, Anthony 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

 

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

 

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 xi 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; see also his ‘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)

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

-----. ‘Augusta Gregory, Bernard Shaw, and the shewing-up of Dublin Castle.’ PMLA 109 1994 26-44

 

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)

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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 (English Literary Society of Japan) 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

 

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 viii 1956 20-21, 89-90

 

O’Hare, John. ‘How the play reached publication.’ Theatre Arts Monthly 40 viii 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’

 

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’

 

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

 

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)

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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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