FOR FURTHER READING

WORKS BY SHAW

Collected Plays with Their Prefaces: Vols. 1—7. Edited by Dan H. Laurence. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1975.

The Collected Screenplays of Bernard Shaw. Edited by Bernard F. Dukore. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1980.

Collected Letters. Edited by Dan H. Laurence. Vol. I, 1874—1897, New York: Dodd, Mead, 1965; Vol. 2, 1898-1910,New York: Dodd, Mead, 1972; Vol. 3, 1911-1925 New York: Viking Press, 1985; Vol. 4, 1926-1950, New York: Viking Press, 1988.

The Drama Observed. Edited by Bernard F. Dukore. Vol. 1 : 1880-1895; Vol. 2: 1895-1897; Vol. 3: 1897-1911; Vol. 4: 1911—1950. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993. An invaluable collection of all Shaw’s writings about theater.

Shaw’s Music: The Complete Musical Criticism in Three Volumes. Edited by Dan H. Laurence. Vol. 1: 1876-1890; Vol. 2: 1890-1893; Vol. 3: 1893-1950. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1981.

BIOGRAPHICAL

Ervine, St. John G. Bernard Shaw: His Life, Work, and Friends. New York: William Morrow, 1956. The most sympathetic and fair biography of Shaw.

Henderson, Archibald. George Bernard Shaw: Man of the Century. New York: Appleton- Century- Crofts, 1956.

Holroyd, Michael. Bernard Shaw, Vol. 1, 1856-1898: The Search for Love, New York: Random House 1988. Bernard Shaw, Vol. 2, 1898-1918: The Pursuit of Power, New York: Random House, 1989. Bernard Shaw, Vol.3, 1918-1950: The Lure of Fantasy, New York: Random House, 1991. Bernard Shaw, Vol. 4, 1950-1991: The Last Laugh, New York: Random House, 1992. The most detailed and comprehensive biography. A condensed version is available: Bernard Shaw: The One- Volume Definitive Edition, New York: Random House, 1998.

Shaw, George Bernard. Interviews and Recollections. Edited by A. M. Gibbs. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1990. An indispensable record of first-hand personal views of and by Shaw.

CRITICAL WORKS

Bentley, Eric. Bernard Shaw. New York: New Directions, 1947.

Berst, Charles A. Bernard Shaw and the Art of Drama. Champaign-Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1973.

Crompton, Louis. Shaw the Dramatist. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1969.

Evans, T. F., ed. Shaw: The Critical Heritage. London: Routledge, 1976.

Meisel, Martin. Shaw and the Nineteenth-Century Theater. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1963. A brilliant and delightful account of Shaw’s relationship to the theater of his youth.

Morgan, Margery M. The Shavian Playground. London: Methuen, 1972.

Turco, Alfred, Jr. Shaw’s Moral Vision. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1976.

Valency, Maurice. The Cart and the Trumpet. New York: Oxford University Press, 1973.

Watson, Barbara Bellow. A Shavian Guide to the Intelligent Woman. New York: W W. Norton, 1972. Still the best case for Shaw as a feminist.

Wisenthal, J. L. The Marriage of Contraries. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1974.

PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS OF SHAW’ S IDEAS

Bertolini, John A. The Playwrighting Self of Bernard Shaw. Carbondale and Edwardsville: University of Southern Illinois Press, 1991.

Dukore, Bernard. Shaw’s Theatre. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000.

Gibbs, A. M. The Art and Mind of Shaw. New York: Macmillan, 1983.

Gordon, David J. Bernard Shaw and the Comic Sublime. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1990.

Holroyd, Michael, ed. The Genius of Shaw. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979.

Shaw: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies: Vols. 1—22 successive. General editors: Stanley Weintraub, Fred D. Crawford, Gale K. Lar son. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1981-2003.