George Bernard Shaw

Bibliography

Novels
Cashel Byron’s Profession. – London : Modern Press, 1886
An Unsocial Socialist. – London : Sonnenschein, Lowrey, 1887
Love among the Artists. – Unauthorized ed. – Chicago : Stone, 1900. – 1 st authorized ed., London : Constable, 1914
The Irrational Knot. – London : Constable, 1905
Immaturity. – London : Constable, 1931. – Written in 1879
An Unfinished Novel / edited, with introduction by Stanley Weintraub. – London : Constable, 1958
 
Plays (selection)
Widowers’ Houses. – London : Henry, 1893
Plays : Pleasant and Unpleasant. – London : Richards, 1898. – 2 vol.
Three Plays for Puritans. – London : Richards, 1901
Man and Superman. – Westminster : Constable, 1903
John Bull’s Other Island and Major Barbara : also How He Lied to Her Husband. – London : Constable, 1907
The Doctor’s Dilemma, Getting Married, & The Shewing–up of Blanco Posnet. – London : Constable, 1911
Misalliance, the Dark Lady of the Sonnets, and Fanny’s First Play. – London : Constable, 1914
Heartbreak House, Great Catherine, and Playlets of the War. – London : Constable, 1919
Back to Methuselah : a Metabiological Pentateuch. – London : Constable, 1921
Saint Joan. – London : Constable, 1924
The Apple Cart : a political extravaganza. – London : Constable, 1930
Too True to Be Good, Village Wooing & On the Rocks. – London : Constable, 1934
The Simpleton, The Six, and The Millionairess. – London : Constable, 1936
Geneva : a Fancied Page of History in Three Acts. – London : Constable, 1939
Major Barbara : a Screen Version. – New York : Penguin, 1946
Geneva, Cymbeline Refinished, & Good King Charles. – London : Constable, 1947
Buoyant Billions, Farfetched Fables, & Shakes versus Shav. – London : Constable, 1951
The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw : Collected Plays with Their Prefaces. – London : Bodley Head, 1970-74. –7 vol.
Passion Play : a Dramatic Fragment, 1878 / edited by Jerald E. Bringle. – Iowa City : University of Iowa at the Windhover Press, 1971
The Collected Screenplays of Bernard Shaw / edited by Bernard F. Dukore. – London: Prior, 1980
Early Texts : Play Manuscripts in Facsimile. – New York : Garland, 1981. – 12 vol.
 
Miscellaneous (a seletion)
The Quintessence of Ibsenism. – London : Scott, 1891. – Rev. and enl. ed. 1913
The Perfect Wagnerite : a Commentary on the Ring of the Niblungs. – London : Richards, 1898
Dramatic Opinions and Essays. – 1 st authorized ed. – London : Constable, 1907
Press Cuttings. – London : Constable, 1909
Common Sense about the War. – London : Statesman, 1914
Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion. – London : Constable, 1916
How to Settle the Irish Question. – London : Constable, 1917
Peace Conference Hints. – London : Constable, 1919
The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism. – London : Constable, 1928
What I Really Wrote about the War. – London : Constable, 1930
Short Stories, Scraps and Shavings. – London : Constable, 1932
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God. – London : Constable, 1932
Shaw Gives Himself Away : an Autobiographical Miscellany. – Newtown, Montgomeryshire : Gregynog Press, 1939
Sixteen Self Sketches. – London : Constable, 1949
Shaw on Theatre / edited by E. J. West. – London : MacGibbon & Kee, 1960
How to Become a Musical Critic / edited by Dan H. Laurence. – London : Hart-Davis, 1960
Shaw on Shakespeare / edited by Edwin Wilson. – New York : Dutton, 1961
The Religious Speeches of Bernard Shaw / edited by Warren Sylvester Smith. – Pennsylvania State University Press, 1963
George Bernard Shaw on Language / edited by Abraham Tauber. – New York : Philosophical Library, 1963
Shaw : An Autobiography, 1856-1898 / compiled and edited by Stanley Weintraub. – New York : Weybright & Talley, 1969
Shaw : An Autobiography, 1898-1950 : the Playwright Years / compiled and edited by Stanley Weintraub. – New York: Weybright & Talley, 1970
Shaw and Ibsen : Bernard Shaw’s The Quintessence of Ibsenism and Related Writings / edited by J. L. Wisenthal. – University of Toronto Press, 1979
Bernard Shaw on Photography : Essays and Photographs / edited by Bill Jay and Margaret Moore. – Wellingborough : Equation, 1989
 
Critical studies (selection)
Henderson, Archibald, George Bernard Shaw : His Life and Works. – London : Hurst and Blackett, 1911
Ohmann, Richard Malin, Shaw : the Style and the Man. – Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press, 1962
Weintraub, Stanley, Journey to Heartbreak : the Crucible Years of Bernard Shaw 1914-1918. – New York : Weybright and Talley, cop. 1971
Henderson, Archibald, George Bernhard Shaw : Man of the Century. – Unabridged republ. – New York, 1972
Harris, Nathaniel, The Shaws : the Family of Bernard Shaw. – London : Dent, 1977
Laurence, Dan H., Bernard Shaw : a Bibliography. – Oxford : Clarendon Pr., 1983. – 2 vol.
Holroyd, Michael, Bernard Shaw Vol. 1, 1856-1898 : the Search for Love. – London : Chatto & Windus, 1988
Holroyd, Michael, Bernard Shaw Vol. 2, 1898-1918 : the Pursuit of Power. – London : Chatto & Windus, 1989
Holroyd, Michael, Bernard Shaw Vol. 3, 1918-1950 : the Lure of Fantasy. – London : Chatto & Windus, 1991
Holroyd, Michael, Bernard Shaw Vol. 4, 1950-1991 : the Last Laugh. – London : Chatto & Windus, 1992
Holroyd, Michael, Bernard Shaw : the One-Volume Definitive Edition. – London : Chatto & Windus, 1997
The Cambridge companion to George Bernard Shaw / edited by Christopher Innes. – Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998
Pharand, Michel W., Bernard Shaw and the French. – Gainesville, Fl. : University Press of Florida, cop. 2000
Gibbs, Anthony Matthews, A Bernard Shaw Chronology. – Basingstoke : Palgrave, 2001
Baker, Stuart E., Bernard Shaw’s Remarkable Religion : a Faith That Fits the Facts. – Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2002
Gahan, Peter, Shaw Shadows : Rereading the Texts of Bernard Shaw. – Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2004
Gibbs, Anthony Matthews, Bernard Shaw : a Life. – Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2005

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