GEORGE SHAW - Collected Works

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This Collected Works contains:
An Unsocial Socialist
Androcles and the Lion
Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress
Arms and the Man
Augustus Does His Bit: A True-to-Life Farce
Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch
Caesar and Cleopatra
Candida
Candida: Ein Mysterium in drei Akten
Captain Brassbound's Conversion
Cashel Byron's Profession
Fanny's First Play
Getting Married
Great Catherine (Whom Glory Still Adores)
Heartbreak House
How He Lied to Her Husband
John Bull's Other Island
Major Barbara
Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy
Maxims for Revolutionists
Misalliance
Mrs. Warren's Profession
O'Flaherty V.C.: A Recruiting Pamphlet
On the Prospects of Christianity / Bernard Shaw's Preface to Androcles and the Lion
Overruled
Preface to Major Barbara: First Aid to Critics
Press Cuttings
Pygmalion
Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion
The Admirable Bashville; Or, Constancy Unrewarded / Being the Novel of Cashel Byron's Profession Done into a Stage Play in Three Acts and in Blank Verse, with a Note on Modern Prize Fighting
The Dark Lady of the Sonnets
The Devil's Disciple
The Doctor's Dilemma
The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors
The Impossibilities of Anarchism
The Inca of Perusalem: An Almost Historical Comedietta
The Irrational Knot / Being the Second Novel of His Nonage
The Man of Destiny
The Miraculous Revenge
The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring
The Philanderer
The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet
Treatise on Parents and Children
You Never Can Tell
George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902) and Pygmalion (1912). With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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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.

OVERRULED

PREFACE TO OVERRULED.

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

PRESS CUTTINGS

PYGMALION

PREFACE TO PYGMALION.

ACT I

ACT II

ACT III

ACT IV

ACT V

PREFACE TO THE REVOLUTIONIST'S HANDBOOK

AND YET

JOHN TANNER

ON GOOD BREEDING

PROPERTY AND MARRIAGE

THE PERFECTIONIST EXPERIMENT AT ONEIDA CREEK

MAN'S OBJECTION TO HIS OWN IMPROVEMENT

THE POLITICAL NEED FOR THE SUPERMAN

PRUDERY EXPLAINED

PROGRESS AN ILLUSION

THE CONCEIT OF CIVILIZATION

THE VERDICT OF HISTORY

THE METHOD

THE ADMIRABLE BASHVILLE OR, CONSTANCY UNREWARDED

THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS

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

THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE

ACT I

ACT II

ACT III

NOTES TO THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE

THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA

ACT I

ACT II

ACT III

ACT IV

ACT V

THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA: PREFACE ON DOCTORS

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 SELF-RESPECT IN SURGEONS

ARE DOCTORS MEN OF SCIENCE?

BACTERIOLOGY AS A SUPERSTITION

ECONOMIC DIFFICULTIES OF IMMUNIZATION

THE PERILS OF INOCULATION

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

OUR OWN CRUELTIES

THE SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION OF CRUELTY

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

What then is to be done?

MEDICAL ORGANIZATION

THE SOCIAL SOLUTION OF THE MEDICAL PROBLEM

THE FUTURE OF PRIVATE PRACTICE

THE TECHNICAL PROBLEM

THE LATEST THEORIES

THE IMPOSSIBILITIES OF ANARCHISM

THE INCA OF PERUSALEM: AN ALMOST HISTORICAL COMEDIETTA

PROLOGUE

THE PLAY

THE IRRATIONAL KNOT

TO THE AMERICAN EDITION OF 1905

THE WATERS OF MARAH,

BY ELINOR MCQUINCH.

"MARIAN."

THE MAN OF DESTINY

The Miraculous Revenge

THE MIRACULOUS REVENGE

THE PERFECT WAGNERITE A COMMENTARY ON THE NIBLUNG'S RING

Preface to the First German Edition

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION

Preface to the First Edition

THE PERFECT WAGNERITE

PRELIMINARY ENCOURAGEMENTS

THE RING OF THE NIBLUNGS

THE RHINE GOLD

WAGNER AS REVOLUTIONIST

THE VALKYRIES

SIEGFRIED

BACK TO OPERA AGAIN

SIEGFRIED AS PROTESTANT

PANACEA QUACKERY, OTHERWISE IDEALISM

DRAMATIC ORIGIN OF WOTAN

THE LOVE PANACEA

NOT LOVE, BUT LIFE

ANARCHISM NO PANACEA

SIEGFRIED CONCLUDED

NIGHT FALLS ON THE GODS

PROLOGUE

A WAGNERIAN NEWSPAPER CONTROVERSY

FORGOTTEN ERE FINISHED

WHY HE CHANGED HIS MIND

WAGNER'S OWN EXPLANATION

THE PESSIMIST AS AMORIST

THE MUSIC OF THE RING

THE REPRESENTATIVE THEMES

THE CHARACTERIZATION

THE OLD AND THE NEW MUSIC

THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

THE MUSIC OF THE FUTURE

BAYREUTH

BAYREUTH IN ENGLAND

WAGNERIAN SINGERS

THE PHILANDERER

ACT I

ACT II

ACT III

ACT IV

THE SHEWING-UP OF BLANCO POSNET

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

THE REJECTED STATEMENT

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 REJECTED STATEMENT: PART TWO

THE LICENSING OF THEATRES

THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN LICENSING AND CENSORSHIP

PROSTITUTION AND DRINK IN THEATRES

WHY THE MANAGERS DREAD LOCAL CONTROL

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