The Essential Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated Edition)

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George Bernard Shaw. The Essential Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated Edition)

The Essential Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated Edition)

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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)

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COKANE [as they go in together] Not at all, not at all. A little tact, Mr Sartorius; a little knowledge of the world; a little experience of women. [They disappear into the annexe.]

SARTORIUS [on second thoughts] Stop. [She stops.] My love to Miss Blanche; I am alone here and would like to see her for a moment if she is not busy.

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