This collection presents a cross-section of Shaw's most important theater work—Mrs. Warren's Profession, Man and Superman, Major Barbara, and Pygmalion. Each play is fully annotated.
"Contexts and Criticism" features all-new material on the author and his work, from traditional critical readings to more theorized approaches, among them essays on Shaw's Fabianism and his alleged feminism. Contributors include Leon Hugo, Sally Peters, Tracy C. Davis, John A. Bertolini, Stanley Weintraub, and J. Ellen Gainor.
A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are included.
George Bernard Shaw wrote more than fifty plays and continually revised manv of them. This revised Norton Critical Edition represents a cross-section of Shaw's most important theater work: Mrs Warren's Profession, Man and Superman, Major Barbara, and Pygmalion The texts of the plays are based on early Constable editions, and each is accompanied by explanatory annotation.
"Contexts and Criticism." which is completely revised in this Second Edition. presents material on the author and his work, from traditional critical readings to more theorized approaches involving Shaw's Fabianism and his alleged feminism. Contribu- tors include Leon Hugo, Nicholas Grene T. F. Evans, Sally Peters, Jean Reynolds, Tracy C. Davis. G. K. Chesterton. John A, Bertolini. Margery Morgan, Stanley Weintraub. J. Ellen Gainor, and Errol Durbach.
A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are also included.
Preface
The Texts of the Plays
Mrs Warren's Profession (1898)
Man and Superman (1903)
Major Barbara (1907)
Pygmalion (1914)
Contexts and Criticism
ON SHAW
Leon Hugo · From Edwardian Shaw: The Writer and His Age
Nicholas Grene · Two Models: Wilde and Ibsen
T. F. Evans · The Political Shaw
Sally Peters · Shaw's Life: A Feminist in Spite of Himself
Jean Reynolds · From Pygmalion's Wordplay
ON MRS WARREN'S PROFESSION
Anonymous · [Review of Mrs Warren's Profession]
Tracy C. Davis · Apprenticeship as a Playwright
ON MAN AND SUPERMAN
G. K. Chesterton · [Review of Man and Superman]
John A. Bertolini · Fatherhood and the Self, or the Philosophy of Comedy
ON MAJOR BARBARA
Margery Morgan · [Shaw's Blakean Farce]
Stanley Weintraub · Four Fathers for Barbara
ON PYGMALION
J. Ellen Gainor · The Daughter in Her Place
Errol Durbach · Pygmalion: Myth and Anti-Myth in the Plays of Ibsen and Shaw
George Bernard Shaw: A Chronology
Selected Bibliography