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This page is being used to construct a bibliography, with external links, for the George Bernard Shaw article.

[edit] Plays

Title	Written	Premiere	Printed	Remarks	Links
Passion Play	1878			Obscure fragment
Un Petit Drame	1884		1958	One act playlet
Widower's Houses	1892	1892	1893	First succesful play	[1]
The Philanderer	1893		1898	Woman hunts; man is the prey.	[2]
Mrs. Warren's Profession	1894	1895	1898	Created public uproar because prosti- tution was realistically discussed	[3]
Arms and the Man	1894	1894	1898	In war and love, pragmatism beats bravado.	[4]
Candida	1895	1897	1898	A woman chooses the man who needs her most over the one who loves her most	[5]
The Man of Destiny	1895	1899	1898	Cherchez la femme.	[6]
You Never Can Tell	1896	1896	1998	Comedy for comedy's sake	[7]
The Devil's Disciple	1897	1897	1901	A melodrama drawn from the American Revolution. Shaw's only full-length play with a solely American locale.	[8]
The Gadfly: or The Son of the Cardinal		1898
Caesar and Cleopatra	1898	1906	1901	The game is not romance but politics.	[9]
Captain Brassbound's Conversion	1899	1900	1901	The lady's trustfulness can melt any villain's heart.	[10]
The Admirable Bashville, or Constancy Unrewarded	1901	1903	1909	Derived from Cashel Byron's Profession but not a stage version of that novel
Man and Superman	1903	1905	1903	Epic flight of a Socialist reformer hoping to escape a woman bent on marriage	[11]
Don Juan in Hell: Act III of Man and Superman	1903	1907	1903	A dream sequence revises the Don Juan legend; it is often produced as a separate play.	[12]
John Bull's Other Island	1904	1904	1907	An Irishman's view of Edwardian England	[13]
How He Lied to Her Husband	1904	1904	1907	Satirizes Candida. The heroine, Aurora, strong as to flesh, finds her spirit weak.	[14]
Major Barbara	1905	1905	1907	The online version includes the preface; click on "Essay as First Aid to Critics"	[15]
Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction	1905	1905	1905	A one-act farce intended for cheap and easy productions to benefit The Actors' Orphanage	[16]
The Doctor's Dilemma	1906	1906	1911	When the doctor can cure only one, either an artistic genius or a mundane but deserving friend, whom should he choose?	[17]
The Interlude at the Playhouse	1907	1907	1907	Extremely humorous one-scene playlet	[18]
Getting Married	1908	1908	1911	Matrimony from the Shavian point of view	[19]
The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet. Sermon in crude melodrama	1909	1909	1911	Random acts of kindness help the world go down.	[20]
Press Cuttings	1909	1909	1909	Burlesques the conservative male reaction to the threat of Women's Suffrage	[21]
Fascinating Foundling: Disgrace to the author	1909	1928	1926	No in-laws, please!	[22]
The Glimpse of Reality A Tragedietta	1909	1927	1926	Reality in the 14th century, perhaps.	[23]
Misalliance	1910	1910	1914	Supplement to Getting Married	[24]
The Dark Lady of the Sonnets	1910	1910	1914	Fundraiser to help establish National Theatre as memorial for Shakespeare	[25]
Fanny's First Play	1911	1911	1914	Shaw called it a "potboiler"	[26]
Androcles and the Lion	1912	1913	1914	Martyrdom for fun and profit	[27]
Overruled: A Demonstration	1912	1912	1916	Not an argument for or against polygamy	[28]
Beauty's Duty	1913		1934	There is no record of this playlet being staged.	[29]
Pygmalion	1912-13	1913	1914	From guttersnipe to great lady, with lingering regrets	[30]
Great Catherine	1913	1913	1919	Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.	[31]
The Music Cure	1913	1914	1926	Nonsense, Shaw called it.	[32]
O'Flaherty, V. C.	1915	1917	1920	For an Irishman, war is a respite from the stress of homelife.	[33]
The Inca of Perusalem	1916	1916	1919	An almost historical comedietta	[34]
Agustus Does His Bit	1916	1916	1919	Satirizes bureaucrats	[35]
Macbeth Skit	1916		1967	Published in Educational Theatre Journal (1967) with an introduction by B. F. Dukore
Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress	1917	1918	1919	Revolutionary romancelet	[36]
Heartbreak House	1913-19	1920	1919	Fantasia in the Russian manner on English themes	[37]
Back to Methuselah A Metabiological Pentateuch	1918-20	1922	1921	«Preface» and 5 plays: «In the Beginning», «The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas», «The Thing Happens», «Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman» and « As Far as Thought Can Reach».	[38]
A Glimpse of the Domesticity of Franklin Barnabas.	1920	1960	1932	First version of Back to Methuselah's Act II
Jitta's Atonement	1922	1929	1926	Shaw's translation from German of a play by Siegfried Trebitsch
Saint Joan	1923	1923	1924	Shaw's soul shows between the lines	[39]
The Apple Cart	1929	1929	1930	The flaws in democracy explored.	[40]
Too True to Be Good	1931	1932	1932	Regarding the miseries of wealth.	[41]
Village Wooing	1933	1934	1934	Comedietta for two voices	[42]
On the Rocks	1933	1933	1934	Unrest during the Grest Depression	[43]
The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles	1934	1935	1936	The Useful Will Be Spared	[44]
The Six of Calais	1934	1934	1936	No message, just a great story	[45]
The Millionairess	1934	1936	1936	Earning money is a talent	[46]
Arthur and the Acetone	1935		1936	Broad satire of bureaucracy	[47]
Cymbeline Refinished	1937	1937	1938	A revised Act V for Shakespeare's Cymbeline	[48]
Geneva	1938	1938	1939	A fancied page of history.	[49]
In Good King Charles's Golden Days	1939	1939	1939	A true history that never happened.	[50]
The British Party System	1944	Never	1944	This playlet is Chapter III of Everybody's Political What's What?	[51]
Buoyant Billions	1947	1949	1947	Comedy of no manners	[52]
Farfetched Fables	1948-50	1950	1951	Shaw's thoughts simplified	[53]
Why She Would Not	1950			Unfinished play. Shaw died while writing it.	[54]