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George Bernard Shaw. 60 Plays: The George Bernard Shaw Edition (Illustrated)
60 Plays: The George Bernard Shaw Edition (Illustrated)
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George Bernard Shaw by G. K. Chesterton
Introduction to the First Edition
The Problem of a Preface
The Irishman
The Puritan
The Progressive
The Critic
The Dramatist
The Philosopher
Widowers’ Houses (1892)
ACT I
ACT II
ACT III
The Philanderer (1898)
ACT I
ACT II
ACT III
ACT IV
Mrs. Warren’s Profession (1898)
THE AUTHOR’S APOLOGY
ACT I
ACT II
ACT III
ACT IV
The Man Of Destiny (1897)
Arms And The Man: An Anti-Romantic Comedy in Three Acts (1894)
INTRODUCTION
ACT I
ACT II
ACT III
Candida (1898)
ACT I
ACT II
ACT III
You Never Can Tell (1897)
ACT I
ACT II
ACT III
ACT IV
The Devil’s Disciple (1897)
ACT I
ACT II
ACT III
NOTES TO THE DEVIL’S DISCIPLE
BURGOYNE
PROPOSITION
ANSWER
PROPOSITION
ANSWER
PROPOSITION
ANSWER
PROPOSITION
ANSWER
PROPOSITION
ANSWER
PROPOSITION
ANSWER
BRUDENELL
Captain Brassbound’s Conversion (1900)
ACT I
ACT II
ACT III
NOTES TO CAPTAIN BRASSBOUND’S CONVERSION
SOURCES OF THE PLAY
ENGLISH AND AMERICAN DIALECTS
Caesar and Cleopatra: A History (1901)
PROLOGUE
AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE PROLOGUE
ACT I
ACT II
ACT III
ACT IV
ACT V
NOTES TO CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA
CLEOPATRA’S CURE FOR BALDNESS
APPARENT ANACHRONISMS
CLEOPATRA
BRITANNUS
JULIUS CAESAR
The Gadfly Or The Son of the Cardinal (1898)
ACT I
ACT II
ACT III
ACT IV. SCENE I
SCENE II
The Admirable Bashville Or Constancy Unrewarded (1901)
PREFACE
ACT I
ACT II
Scene I
Scene II
ACT IV
NOTE ON MODERN PRIZEFIGHTING
Man And Superman: A Comedy and A Philosophy (1903)
EPISTLE DEDICATORY TO ARTHUR BINGHAM WALKLEY
ACT I
ACT II
ACT III
ACT IV
John Bull’s Other Island (1904)
ACT I
ACT II
ACT III
ACT IV
How He Lied To Her Husband (1904)
PREFACE
HOW HE LIED TO HER HUSBAND (PLAY)
Major Barbara (1905)
PREFACE TO MAJOR BARBARA: FIRST AID TO CRITICS
THE GOSPEL OF ST. ANDREW UNDERSHAFT
THE SALVATION ARMY
BARBARA’S RETURN TO THE COLORS
WEAKNESSES OF THE SALVATION ARMY
CHRISTIANITY AND ANARCHISM
SANE CONCLUSIONS
ACT I
ACT II
ACT III
Passion, Poison, And Petrifaction (1905)
OR, THE FATAL GAZOGENE
The Doctor’s Dilemma: A Tragedy (1906)
PREFACE
DOUBTFUL CHARACTER BORNE BY THE MEDICAL PROFESSION
DOCTOR’S CONSCIENCES
THE PECULIAR PEOPLE
RECOIL OF THE DOGMA OF MEDICAL INFALLIBILITY ON THE DOCTOR
WHY DOCTORS DO NOT DIFFER
THE CRAZE FOR OPERATIONS
CREDULITY AND CHLOROFORM
MEDICAL POVERTY
THE SUCCESSFUL DOCTOR
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SELFRESPECT IN SURGEONS
ARE DOCTORS MEN OF SCIENCE?
BACTERIOLOGY AS A SUPERSTITION
ECONOMIC DIFFICULTIES OF IMMUNIZATION
THE PERILS OF INOCULATION
TRADE UNIONISM AND SCIENCE
DOCTORS AND VIVISECTION
THE PRIMITIVE SAVAGE MOTIVE
THE HIGHER MOTIVE. THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE
THE FLAW IN THE ARGUMENT
LIMITATIONS OF THE RIGHT TO KNOWLEDGE
A FALSE ALTERNATIVE
CRUELTY FOR ITS OWN SAKE
OUR OWN CRUELTIES
THE SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION OF CRUELTY
SUGGESTED LABORATORY TESTS OF THE VIVISECTOR’S EMOTIONS
ROUTINE
THE OLD LINE BETWEEN MAN AND BEAST
VIVISECTING THE HUMAN SUBJECT
“THE LIE IS A EUROPEAN POWER”
AN ARGUMENT WHICH WOULD DEFEND ANY CRIME
THOU ART THE MAN
WHAT THE PUBLIC WANTS AND WILL NOT GET
THE VACCINATION CRAZE
STATISTICAL ILLUSIONS
THE SURPRISES OF ATTENTION AND NEGLECT
STEALING CREDIT FROM CIVILIZATION
BIOMETRIKA
PATIENT-MADE THERAPEUTICS
THE REFORMS ALSO COME FROM THE LAITY
FASHIONS AND EPIDEMICS
THE DOCTOR’S VIRTUES
THE DOCTOR’S HARDSHIPS
THE PUBLIC DOCTOR
MEDICAL ORGANIZATION
THE SOCIAL SOLUTION OF THE MEDICAL PROBLEM
THE FUTURE OF PRIVATE PRACTICE
THE TECHNICAL PROBLEM
THE LATEST THEORIES
ACT I
ACT II
ACT III
ACT IV
ACT V
The Interlude At The Playhouse (1907)
Getting Married (1908)
PREFACE TO GETTING MARRIED. THE REVOLT AGAINST MARRIAGE
MARRIAGE NEVERTHELESS INEVITABLE
WHAT DOES THE WORD MARRIAGE MEAN
SURVIVALS OF SEX SLAVERY
A NEW ATTACK ON MARRIAGE
A FORGOTTEN CONFERENCE OF MARRIED MEN
HEARTH AND HOME
TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING
LARGE AND SMALL FAMILIES
THE GOSPEL OF LAODICEA
FOR BETTER FOR WORSE
WANTED: AN IMMORAL STATESMAN
THE LIMITS OF DEMOCRACY
THE SCIENCE AND ART OF POLITICS
WHY STATESMEN SHIRK THE MARRIAGE QUESTION
THE QUESTION OF POPULATION
THE RIGHT TO MOTHERHOOD
MONOGAMY, POLYGYNY AND POLYANDRY
THE MALE REVOLT AGAINST POLYGYNY
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ORIENTAL AND OCCIDENTAL POLYGYNY
THE OLD MAID’S RIGHT TO MOTHERHOOD
IBSEN’S CHAIN STITCH
REMOTENESS OF THE FACTS FROM THE IDEAL
DIFFICULTY OF OBTAINING EVIDENCE
MARRIAGE AS A MAGIC SPELL
THE IMPERSONALITY OF SEX
THE ECONOMIC SLAVERY OF WOMEN
UNPOPULARITY OF IMPERSONAL VIEWS
IMPERSONALITY IS NOT PROMISCUITY
DOMESTIC CHANGE OF AIR
HOME MANNERS ARE BAD MANNERS
SPURIOUS “NATURAL” AFFECTION
CARRYING THE WAR INTO THE ENEMY’S COUNTRY
SHELLEY AND QUEEN VICTORIA
A PROBABLE EFFECT OF GIVING WOMEN THE VOTE
THE PERSONAL SENTIMENTAL BASIS OF MONOGAMY
DIVORCE
IMPORTANCE OF SENTIMENTAL GRIEVANCE
DIVORCE WITHOUT ASKING WHY
ECONOMIC SLAVERY AGAIN THE ROOT DIFFICULTY
LABOR EXCHANGES AND THE WHITE SLAVERY
CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE
DIVORCE A SACRAMENTAL DUTY
OTHELLO AND DESDEMONA
WHAT IS TO BECOME OF THE CHILDREN?
THE COST OF DIVORCE
CONCLUSIONS
GETTING MARRIED (PLAY)
The Shewing-Up Of Blanco Posnet (1909)
PREFACE. THE CENSORSHIP
A READABLE BLUEBOOK
HOW NOT TO DO IT
THE STORY OF THE JOINT SELECT COMMITTEE
WHY THE MANAGERS LOVE THE CENSORSHIP
A TWO GUINEA INSURANCE POLICY
WHY THE GOVERNMENT INTERFERED
THE PEERS ON THE JOINT SELECT COMMITTEE
THE COMMITTEE’S ATTITUDE TOWARD THE THEATRE
A BAD BEGINNING
A COMIC INTERLUDE
AN ANTI-SHAVIAN PANIC
A RARE AND CURIOUS FIRST EDITION
THE TIMES TO THE RESCUE
THE COUNCIL OF TEN
THE SENTENCE
THE EXECUTION
PART I. THE WITNESS’S QUALIFICATIONS
THE DEFINITION OF IMMORALITY
WHAT TOLERATION MEANS
THE CASE FOR TOLERATION
THE LIMITS TO TOLERATION
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LAW AND CENSORSHIP
WHY THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN?
THE DIPLOMATIC OBJECTION TO THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN
THE OBJECTION OF COURT ETIQUET
WHY NOT AN ENLIGHTENED CENSORSHIP?
THE WEAKNESS OF THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN’S DEPARTMENT
AN ENLIGHTENED CENSORSHIP STILL WORSE THAN THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN’S
THE PRACTICAL IMPOSSIBILITIES OF CENSORSHIP
THE ARBITRATION PROPOSAL
THE LICENSING OF THEATRES. THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN LICENSING AND CENSORSHIP
PROSTITUTION AND DRINK IN THEATRES
WHY THE MANAGERS DREAD LOCAL CONTROL
DESIRABLE LIMITATIONS OF LOCAL CONTROL
SUMMARY
PREFACE RESUMED. MR. GEORGE ALEXANDER’S PROTEST
ELIZA AND HER BATH
A KING’S PROCTOR
COUNSEL’S OPINION
WANTED: A NEW MAGNA CHARTA
PROPOSED: A NEW STAR CHAMBER
POSSIBILITIES OF THE PROPOSAL
STAR CHAMBER SENTIMENTALITY
ANYTHING FOR A QUIET LIFE
SHALL THE EXAMINER OF PLAYS STARVE?
LORD GORELL’S AWAKENING
JUDGES: THEIR PROFESSIONAL LIMITATIONS
CONCLUSION
THE SHEWING-UP OF BLANCO POSNET (PLAY)
Press Cuttings (1909)
Misalliance (1910)
PREFACE: PARENTS AND CHILDREN. Trailing Clouds of Glory
The Child is Father to the Man
What is a Child?
The Sin of Nadab and Abihu
The Manufacture of Monsters
Small and Large Families
Children as Nuisances
Child Fanciers
Childhood as a State of Sin
School
My Scholastic Acquirements
Schoolmasters of Genius
What We Do Not Teach, and Why
Taboo in Schools
Alleged Novelties in Modern Schools
What is to be Done?
Children’s Rights and Duties
Should Children Earn their Living?
Children’s Happiness
The Horror of the Perpetual Holiday
University Schoolboyishness
The New Laziness
The Infinite School Task
The Rewards and Risks of Knowledge
English Physical Hardihood and Spiritual Cowardice
The Risks of Ignorance and Weakness
The Common Sense of Toleration
The Sin of Athanasius
The Experiment Experimenting
Why We Loathe Learning and Love Sport
Antichrist
Under the Whip
Technical Instruction
Docility and Dependence
The Abuse of Docility
The Schoolboy and the Homeboy
The Comings of Age of Children
The Conflict of Wills
The Demagogue’s Opportunity
Our Quarrelsomeness
We Must Reform Society before we can Reform Ourselves
The Pursuit of Manners
Not too much Wind on the Heath, Brother
Wanted: a Child’s Magna Charta
The Pursuit of Learning
Children and Game: a Proposal
The Parents’ Intolerable Burden
Mobilization
Children’s Rights and Parents’ Wrongs
How Little We Know About Our Parents
Our Abandoned Mothers
Family Affection
The Fate of the Family
Family Mourning
Art Teaching
The Impossibility of Secular Education
Natural Selection as a Religion
Moral Instruction Leagues
The Bible
Artist Idolatry
“The Machine”
The Provocation to Anarchism
Imagination
Government by Bullies
MISALLIANCE (PLAY)
The Dark Lady Of The Sonnets (1910)
PREFACE TO THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS. How the Play came to be Written
Thomas Tyler
Frank Harris
Harris “durch Mitleid wissend”
“Sidney’s Sister: Pembroke’s Mother”
Shakespear’s Social Standing
This Side Idolatry
Shakespear’s Pessimism
Gaiety of Genius
Jupiter and Semele
The Idol of the Bardolaters
Shakespear’s alleged Sycophancy and Perversion
Shakespear and Democracy
Shakespear and the British Public
THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS (PLAY)
Fanny’s First Play (1911)
PREFACE TO FANNY’S FIRST PLAY
INDUCTION
ACT I
ACT II
ACT III
EPILOGUE
Androcles And The Lion (1912)
PREFACE ON THE PROSPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY. WHY NOT GIVE CHRISTIANITY A TRIAL?
WHY JESUS MORE THAN ANOTHER?
WAS JESUS A COWARD?
WAS JESUS A MARTYR?
THE GOSPELS WITHOUT PREJUDICE
THE GOSPELS NOW UNINTELLIGIBLE TO NOVICES
WORLDLINESS OF THE MAJORITY
RELIGION OF THE MINORITY. SALVATIONISM
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ATONEMENT AND PUNISHMENT
SALVATION AT FIRST A CLASS PRIVILEGE; AND THE REMEDY
RETROSPECTIVE ATONEMENT, AND THE EXPECTATION OF THE REDEEMER
COMPLETION OF THE SCHEME BY LUTHER AND CALVIN
JOHN BARLEYCORN
LOOKING FOR THE END OF THE WORLD
THE HONOR OF DIVINE PARENTAGE
MATTHEW. THE ANNUNCIATION: THE MASSACRE: THE FLIGHT
JOHN THE BAPTIST
JESUS JOINS THE BAPTISTS
THE SAVAGE JOHN AND THE CIVILIZED JESUS
JESUS NOT A PROSLETYST
THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS
THE MIRACLES
MATTHEW IMPUTES DIGNITY TO JESUS
THE GREAT CHANGE
JERUSALEM AND THE MYSTICAL SACRIFICE
NOT THIS MAN BUT BARRABAS
THE RESURRECTION
DATE OF MATTHEW’S NARRATIVE
CLASS TYPE OF MATTHEW’S JESUS
MARK. THE WOMEN DISCIPLES AND THE ASCENSION
LUKE. LUKE THE LITERARY ARTIST
THE CHARM OF LUKE’S NARRATIVE
THE TOUCH OF PARISIAN ROMANCE
WAITING FOR THE MESSIAH
JOHN. A NEW STORY AND A NEW CHARACTER
JOHN THE IMMORTAL EYEWITNESS
THE PECULIAR THEOLOGY OF JESUS
JOHN AGREED AS TO THE TRIAL AND CRUCIFIXION
CREDIBILITY OF THE GOSPELS
FASHIONS OF BELIEF
CREDIBILITY AND TRUTH
CHRISTIAN ICONOLATRY AND THE PERILS OF THE ICONOCLAST
THE ALTERNATIVE TO BARRABAS
THE REDUCTION TO MODERN PRACTICE OF CHRISTIANITY
MODERN COMMUNISM
REDISTRIBUTION
SHALL HE WHO MAKES, OWN
LABOR TIME
THE DREAM OF DISTRIBUTION ACCORDING TO MERIT
VITAL DISTRIBUTION
EQUAL DISTRIBUTION
THE CAPTAIN AND THE CABIN BOY
THE POLITICAL AND BIOLOGICAL OBJECTIONS TO INEQUALITY
JESUS AS ECONOMIST
JESUS AS BIOLOGIST
MONEY THE MIDWIFE OF SCIENTIFIC COMMUNISM
JUDGE NOT
LIMITS TO FREE WILL
JESUS ON MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY
WHY JESUS DID NOT MARRY
INCONSISTENCY OF THE SEX INSTINCT
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
THE CASE FOR MARRIAGE
CELIBACY NO REMEDY
AFTER THE CRUCIFIXION
THE VINDICTIVE MIRACLES AND THE STONING OF STEPHEN
PAUL
THE CONFUSION OF CHRISTENDOM
THE SECRET OF PAUL’S SUCCESS
PAUL’S QUALITIES
THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES
THE CONTROVERSIES ON BAPTISM AND TRANSUBSTANTIATION
THE ALTERNATIVE CHRISTS
CREDULITY NO CRITERION
BELIEF IN PERSONAL IMMORTALITY NO CRITERION
THE SECULAR VIEW NATURAL, NOT RATIONAL, THEREFORE INEVITABLE
“THE HIGHER CRITICISM.”
THE PERILS OF SALVATIONISM
THE IMPORTANCE OF HELL IN THE SALVATION SCHEME
THE RIGHT TO REFUSE ATONEMENT
THE TEACHING OF CHRISTIANITY
CHRISTIANITY AND THE EMPIRE
PROLOGUE
ACT I
ACT II
Afterword
Overruled: A Demonstration (1912)
PREFACE TO OVERRULED. THE ALLEVIATIONS OF MONOGAMY
INACCESSIBILITY OF THE FACTS
THE CONVENTION OF JEALOUSY
THE MISSING DATA OF A SCIENTIFIC NATURAL HISTORY OF MARRIAGE
ARTIFICIAL RETRIBUTION
THE FAVORITE SUBJECT OF FARCICAL COMEDY
THE PSEUDO SEX PLAY
ART AND MORALITY
THE LIMITS OF STAGE PRESENTATION
PRUDERIES OF THE FRENCH STAGE
OUR DISILLUSIVE SCENERY
HOLDING THE MIRROR UP TO NATURE
FARCICAL COMEDY SHIRKING ITS SUBJECT
OVERRULED (PLAY)
Pygmalion (1913)
PREFACE TO PYGMALION
A Professor of Phonetics
ACT I
ACT II
ACT III
ACT IV
ACT V
APPENDIX
Great Catherine (Whom Glory Still Adores) (1913)
THE AUTHOR’S APOLOGY FOR GREAT CATHERINE
THE FIRST SCENE
THE SECOND SCENE
THE THIRD SCENE
THE FOURTH SCENE
The Music Cure (1913)
Beauty’s Duty (Unfinished) (1913)
O’Flaherty, V. C. (1915)
A RECRUITING PAMPHLET
O’FLAHERTY V.C. (PLAY)
Macbeth Skit (unfinished) (1916)
ACT I. SCENE V
Glastonbury Skit (unfinished) (1916)
The Inca Of Perusalem: An Almost Historical Comedietta (1916)
PROLOGUE
INCA OF PERUSALEM (PLAY)
Augustus Does His Bit (1916)
PREFACE
AUGUSTUS DOES HIS BIT (PLAY)
Skit For The Tiptaft Revue (1917)
Annajanska, The Bolshevik Empress (1917)
ANNAJANSKA, THE BOLSHEVIK EMPRESS (PLAY)
Heartbreak House (1919)
HEARTBREAK HOUSE AND HORSEBACK HALL. Where Heartbreak House Stands
The Inhabitants
Horseback Hall
Revolution on the Shelf
The Cherry Orchard
Nature’s Long Credits
The Wicked Half Century
Hypochondria
Those who do not know how to live must make a Merit of Dying
War Delirium
Madness in Court
The Long Arm of War
The Rabid Watchdogs of Liberty
The Sufferings of the Sane
Evil in the Throne of Good
Straining at the Gnat and swallowing the Camel
Little Minds and Big Battles
The Dumb Capables and the Noisy Incapables
The Practical Business Men
How the Fools shouted the Wise Men down
The Mad Election
The Yahoo and the Angry Ape
Plague on Both your Houses!
How the Theatre fared
The Soldier at the Theatre Front
Heartbreak House
Commerce in the Theatre
Unser Shakespeare
The Higher Drama put out of Action
Church and Theatre
The Next Phase
The Ephemeral Thrones and the Eternal Theatre
How War muzzles the Dramatic Poet
ACT I
ACT II
ACT III
Back To Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch (1921)
PREFACE. The Infidel Half Century. THE DAWN OF DARWINISM
THE ADVENT OF THE NEO-DARWINIANS
POLITICAL INADEQUACY OF THE HUMAN ANIMAL
COWARDICE OF THE IRRELIGIOUS
IS THERE ANY HOPE IN EDUCATION?
HOMEOPATHIC EDUCATION
THE DIABOLICAL EFFICIENCY OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION
FLIMSINESS OF CIVILIZATION
CREATIVE EVOLUTION
VOLUNTARY LONGEVITY
THE EARLY EVOLUTIONISTS
THE ADVENT OF THE NEO-LAMARCKIANS
HOW ACQUIREMENTS ARE INHERITED
THE MIRACLE OF CONDENSED RECAPITULATION
HEREDITY AN OLD STORY
DISCOVERY ANTICIPATED BY DIVINATION
CORRECTED DATES FOR THE DISCOVERY OF EVOLUTION
DEFYING THE LIGHTNING: A FRUSTRATED EXPERIMENT
IN QUEST OF THE FIRST CAUSE
PALEY’S WATCH
THE IRRESISTIBLE CRY OF ORDER, ORDER!
THE MOMENT AND THE MAN
THE BRINK OF THE BOTTOMLESS PIT
WHY DARWIN CONVERTED THE CROWD
HOW WE RUSHED DOWN A STEEP PLACE
DARWINISM NOT FINALLY REFUTABLE
THREE BLIND MICE
THE GREATEST OF THESE IS SELFCONTROL
A SAMPLE OF LAMARCKO-SHAVIAN INVECTIVE
THE HUMANITARIANS AND THE PROBLEM OF EVIL
HOW ONE TOUCH OF DARWIN MAKES THE WHOLE WORLD KIN
WHY DARWIN PLEASED THE SOCIALISTS
DARWIN AND KARL MARX
WHY DARWIN PLEASED THE PROFITEERS ALSO
THE POETRY AND PURITY OF MATERIALISM
THE VICEROYS OF THE KING OF KINGS
POLITICAL OPPORTUNISM IN EXCELSIS
THE BETRAYAL OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION
CIRCUMSTANTIAL SELECTION IN FINANCE
THE HOMEOPATHIC REACTION AGAINST DARWINISM
RELIGION AND ROMANCE
THE DANGER OF REACTION
A TOUCHSTONE FOR DOGMA
WHAT TO DO WITH THE LEGENDS
A LESSON FROM SCIENCE TO THE CHURCHES
THE RELIGIOUS ART OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
THE ARTIST-PROPHETS
EVOLUTION IN THE THEATRE
MY OWN PART IN THE MATTER
PART I. In the Beginning
ACT I
ACT II
PART II. The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas
PART III. The Thing Happens
PART IV. Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman
ACT I
ACT II
ACT III
ACT IV
PART V. As Far as Thought Can Reach
The War Indemnities (unfinished) (1921)
Saint Joan (1924)
Preface. JOAN THE ORIGINAL AND PRESUMPTUOUS
JOAN AND SOCRATES
CONTRAST WITH NAPOLEON
WAS JOAN INNOCENT OR GUILTY?
JOAN'S GOOD LOOKS
JOAN'S SOCIAL POSITION
JOAN'S VOICES AND VISIONS
THE EVOLUTIONARY APPETITE
THE MERE ICONOGRAPHY DOES NOT MATTER
THE MODERN EDUCATION WHICH JOAN ESCAPED
FAILURES OF THE VOICES
JOAN A GALTONIC VISUALIZER
JOAN'S MANLINESS AND MILITARISM
WAS JOAN SUICIDAL?
JOAN SUMMED UP
JOAN'S IMMATURITY AND IGNORANCE
THE MAID IN LITERATURE
PROTESTANT MISUNDERSTANDINGS OF THE MIDDLE AGES
COMPARATIVE FAIRNESS OF JOAN'S TRIAL
JOAN NOT TRIED AS A POLITICAL OFFENDER
THE CHURCH UNCOMPROMISED BY ITS AMENDS
CRUELTY, MODERN AND MEDIEVAL
CATHOLIC ANTI-CLERICALISM
CATHOLICISM NOT YET CATHOLIC ENOUGH
THE LAW OF CHANGE IS THE LAW OF GOD
CREDULITY, MODERN AND MEDIEVAL
TOLERATION, MODERN AND MEDIEVAL
VARIABILITY OP TOLERATION
THE CONFLICT BETWEEN GENIUS AND DISCIPLINE
JOAN AS THEOCRAT
UNBROKEN SUCCESS ESSENTIAL IN THEOCRACY
MODERN DISTORTIONS OF JOAN'S HISTORY
HISTORY ALWAYS OUT OF DATE
THE REAL JOAN NOT MARVELLOUS ENOUGH FOR US
THE STAGE LIMITS OF HISTORICAL REPRESENTATION
A VOID IN THE ELIZABETHAN DRAMA
TRAGEDY, NOT MELODRAMA
THE INEVITABLE FLATTERIES OF TRAGEDY
SOME WELL-MEANT PROPOSALS FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE PLAY
THE EPILOGUE
TO THE CRITICS, LEST THEY SHOULD FEEL IGNORED
SCENE I
SCENE II
SCENE III
SCENE IV
SCENE V
SCENE VI
EPILOGUE
The Glimpse Of Reality: A Tragedietta (1926)
Fascinating Foundling: Disgrace To The Author (1926)
The Apple Cart: A Political Extravaganza (1929)
Preface
ACT I
AN INTERLUDE
ACT II
Mr Shaw Replies to His Critics
A Walk and a Talk with Mr Shaw
Bernard Shaw's Denial
Mr Shaw and Democracy
The Apple-Cart Again
Too True to Be Good (1932)
Preface. MONEY AND HAPPINESS
THE VAMPIRE AND THE CALF
THE OLD SOLDIER AND THE PUBLIC HOUSE
THE UNLOADING MILLIONAIRES
DELUSIONS OF POVERTY
TRYING IT FOR AN HOUR
CONSOLATIONS OF THE LANDED GENTRY
MISERIES OF THE VAGRANT ROOTLESS RICH
THE REDEMPTION FROM PROPERTY
FUNDAMENTAL NATURAL CONDITIONS OF HUMAN SOCIETY
THE CATHOLIC SOLUTION
NEED FOR A COMMON FAITH
RUSSIA REDISCOVERS THE CHURCH SYSTEM
WHY THE CHRISTIAN SYSTEM FAILED
GOVERNMENT BY EVERYBODY
FAILURE ALL ROUND
OBSOLETE VOWS
SUPERNATURAL PRETENSIONS
ECLECTIC DEMOCRACY
ACT I
ACT II
ACT III
From the Malvern Festival Book, 1932
Why "Too True to be Good" Failed: A Moral in Favour of a National Theatre
Village Wooing: A Comedietta for Two Voices (1933)
FIRST CONVERSATION
SECOND CONVERSATION
THIRD CONVERSATION
On the Rocks: A Political Comedy (1933)
Preface. EXTERMINATION
KILLING AS A POLITICAL FUNCTION
THE SACREDNESS OF HUMAN LIFE
PRESENT EXTERMINATIONS
PREVIOUS ATTEMPTS MISS THE POINT
KING CHARLES'S HEAD
RIGHT TO EXTERMINATE CONFERRED BY PRIVATE PROPERTY
DISGUISES UNDER WHICH PRIVATE EXTERMINATION OPERATES
PRIVATE POWERS OF LIFE AND DEATH
CRUELTY'S EXCUSES
LEADING CASE OF JESUS CHRIST
"CROSSTIANITY"
CHRISTIANITY AND THE SIXTH COMMANDMENT
THE RUSSIAN EXPERIMENT
INADEQUACY OF PENAL CODES
LIMITED LIABILITY IN MORALS
NATURAL LIMIT TO EXTERMINATION
INCOMPATIBILITY OF PEASANTRY WITH MODERN CIVILIZATION
A PEASANT VICTORY IS A VICTORY FOR PRIVATE PROPERTY
PREVENTIVE EXTERMINATION: ITS DIFFICULTIES
TEMPERAMENTAL DIFFICULTIES
IMPORTANCE OF LAZINESS FOR FALLOWING
STANDARD RELIGION INDISPENSABLE
ECLECTIC RELIGIONS
IMPORTANCE OF FREE THOUGHT
TOLERATION MOSTLY ILLUSORY
LEADING CASES: SOCRATES AND JESUS
THE CASE OF GALILEO
FIGMENT OF THE SELFREGARDING ACTION
INCOMPLETENESS OF THE GREAT TRIALS
A MODERN PASSION PLAY IMPOSSIBLE
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN READER AND SPECTATOR
THE SACREDNESS OF CRITICISM
ACT I
ACT II
Shaw Answers Some Questions
The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles (1934)
Preface on Days of Judgment
PROLOGUE. SCENE I
SCENE II
SCENE III
ACT I
ACT II
The Simple Truth of the Matter
The Six of Calais (1934)
Prefatory Note
THE SIX OF CALAIS
Author's Note
Arthur and the Acetone (1936)
ACT I
ACT II
ACT III
The Millionairess (1936)
PREFACE ON BOSSES
ACT I
ACT II
ACT III
ACT IV
Cymbeline Refinished: A Variation on Shakespeare’s Ending (1937)
Foreword
ACT V
Geneva (1938)
Preface
HOODWINKED HEROISM
ENGLAND FRIGHTENED AND GREAT
ENGLAND SECURE AND LAZY
HISTORY STOPS YESTERDAY: STATECRAFT WORKS BLINDFOLD
WE SPLIT THE ATOM
AN AMORAL VICTORY
CIVILIZATION'S WILL TO LIVE ALWAYS DEFEATED BY DEMOCRACY
INCOMPETENT GOVERNMENTS ARE THE CRUELLEST
HITLER
PSEUDO MESSIAH AND MADMAN
DEMOCRACY MISUNDERSTOOD
"GREAT MEN"
WE CAN AND MUST LIVE LONGER
THE NEXT DISCOVERY
ACT I
ACT II
ACT III
ACT IV
Author's Note
New Shaw Play and Germany
For the Press
Telescoping "Geneva"
Further Meditations on Shaw's "Geneva" by Shaw
“In Good King Charles’ Golden Days” (1939)
Preface
STAGE CHAPTERS OF HISTORY
NEWTON'S RECTILINEAR UNIVERSE
CHARLES'S GOLDEN DAYS
THE FUTURE OF WOMEN IN POLITICS
THE COUPLED VOTE
ACT I
ACT II
Playlet on the British Party System (1944)
Buoyant Billions: A Comedy of No Manners (1948)
Preface
ACT I. THE WORLD BETTERER
ACT II. THE ADVENTURE
ACT III. THE DISCUSSION
ACT IV. THE END
The Author Explains
Shakes versus Shav (1949)
Preface
Farfetched Fables (1948-1950)
Preface, § i
THE NEW PSYCHOBIOLOGY
AM I A PATHOLOGICAL CASE?
DIVINE PROVIDENCE
MENTAL CAPACITY DIFFERS AND DIVIDES
SATANIC SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM OF EVIL
MENDACITY COMPULSORY IN KINGCRAFT AND PRIESTCRAFT
G.B.S. MIRACLE FAKER
PARENTAL DILEMMAS
Preface, § ii. THE ALL OR NOTHING COMPLEX
CATHOLICISM IMPRACTICABLE
THE TARES AND THE WHEAT
THE THIRTYNINE ARTICLES
A HUNDRED RELIGIONS AND ONLY ONE SAUCE
THE MARXIST CHURCH
SHOULD I BE SHOT IN RUSSIA?
COMPATIBILITIES
BOHEMIAN ANARCHISM
SHAM DEMOCRACY
Preface, § iii. THE POLITICAL TIME LAG
ADULT SUFFRAGE IS MOBOCRACY
THE MARXIST CLASS WAR
WHAT IS TO BE DONE?
POLITICAL MATHEMATICS
RENT AND VALUE THE ASS'S BRIDGES
STATISTICS VITAL
THE ESTHETIC TEST
SUBCONSCIOUS CAPACITIES
EXAMINATIONS AND SCHOOLMASTERS
Preface, § iv. THE WRONG SORT OF MEMORY
SOME RESULTS
CAPITAL ACCUMULATION
ENGLAND'S SHAMEFACED LEADERSHIP
THE THREATENING FUTURE: HOMILIES NO USE
First Fable
Second Fable
Third Fable
Fourth Fable
Fifth Fable
Sixth and Last Fable
Why She Would Not (1950)
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