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BERNARD SHAW 1912 TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: In the printed version of this text, all apostrophes for contractions such as "can't", "wouldn't" and "he'd" were omitted, to read as "cant", "wouldnt", and ...

INTRODUCTION To the irreverent--and which of us will claim entire exemption from that comfortable classification?--there is something very amusing in the attitude of the orthodox criticism toward ...

1894 With The Author's Apology (1902) THE AUTHOR'S APOLOGY Mrs Warren's Profession has been performed at last, after a delay of only eight years; and I have once more shared with Ibsen the ...

BERNARD SHAW ACT I It is after dinner on a January night, in the library in Lady Britomart Undershaft's house in Wilton Crescent.

EPISTLE DEDICATORY TO ARTHUR BINGHAM WALKLEY My dear Walkley: You once asked me why I did not write a Don Juan play.

ACT I An October night on the Syrian border of Egypt towards the end of the XXXIII Dynasty, in the year 706 by Roman computation, afterwards reckoned by Christian computation as 48 B.C. A great ra...

1908 Transcriber's Note -- The edition from which this play was taken was printed without most contractions, such as dont for don't and so forth.

1906 TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: The edition from which this play was taken was printed with no contractions, thus "we've" is written as "weve", "hadn't" as "hadnt", etc.

BERNARD SHAW 1898 ACT I A fine October morning in the north east suburbs of London, a vast district many miles away from the London of Mayfair and St. James's, much less known there than the P...

1913-1916 HEARTBREAK HOUSE AND HORSEBACK HALL Where Heartbreak House Stands Heartbreak House is not merely the name of the play which follows this preface.

PREFACE Like many other works of mine, this playlet is a piece d'occasion.

_Johnny Tarleton, an ordinary young business man of thirty or less, is taking his weekly Friday to Tuesday in the house of his father, John Tarleton, who has made a great deal of money out of Tarle...

ACT I A lady and gentleman are making love to one another in the drawing-room of a flat in Ashly Gardens in the Victoria district of London.

ACT I Great George Street, Westminster, is the address of Doyle and Broadbent, civil engineers.

ACT I In a dentist's operating room on a fine August morning in 1896.

Bernard Shaw ACT I At the most wretched hour between a black night and a wintry morning in the year 1777, Mrs. Dudgeon, of New Hampshire, is sitting up in the kitchen and general dwelling room...

lapse of twenty-five years between the first projection of the work and its completion.

BERNARD SHAW 1912 PROLOGUE Overture; forest sounds, roaring of lions, Christian hymn faintly.

1921 Contents The Infidel Half Century The Dawn of Darwinism The Advent of the Neo-Darwinians Political Inadequacy of the Human Animal Cowardice of the Irreligious Is there any H...

1910 PREFACE TO THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS How the Play came to be Written I had better explain why, in this little _piece d'occasion_, written for a performance in aid of the funds of t...

CONTENTS Parents and Children Trailing Clouds of Glory The Child is Father to the Man What is a Child?

1912 CONTENTS: Why not give Christianity a Trial?

INDUCTION _The end of a saloon in an old-fashioned country house (Florence Towers, the property of Count O'Dowda) has been curtained off to form a stage for a private theatrical performance.

(1856-1950) THE GOLDEN RULE Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you.

You the staff!

This piece is not an argument for or against polygamy.

CHAPTER I In the dusk of an October evening, a sensible looking woman of forty came out through an oaken door to a broad landing on the first floor of an old English country-house.

Bernard Shaw 1913 TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: The edition from which this etext was taken lacks contractions, so it reads dont for don't and Ill for I'll, for example.

BERNARD SHAW 1898 The twelfth of May, 1796, in north Italy, at Tavazzano, on the road from Lodi to Milan.

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BERNARD SHAW N.B. The Euripidean verses in the second act of Major Barbara are not by me, or even directly by Euripides.

"In Catherine's reign, whom Glory still adores" BYRON THE AUTHOR'S APOLOGY FOR GREAT CATHERINE Exception has been taken to the title of this seeming ...

1909 TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: The edition from which this work was taken was printed without contractions, so there is Ill for I'll and dont for don't, for example, and show is spelt shew.

The General's office in a military station on the east front in Beotia.

I must remind the reader that this playlet was written when its principal character, far from being a fallen foe and virtually a prisoner in our victorious hands, was still the Caesar whose legions...

THE SECOND NOVEL OF HIS NONAGE 1905 PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION OF 1905 This novel was written in the year 1880, only a few years after I had exported myself from Dublin to London in a...

1909 It is not the fault of our doctors that the medical service of the community, as at present provided for, is a murderous absurdity.

It may surprise some people to learn that in 1915 this little play was a recruiting poster in disguise.

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(1856-1950) Writing as: JOHN TANNER, M.I.R.C. (Member of the Idle Rich Class).

PUBLISHED BY THE FABIAN SOCIETY PRICE TWOPENCE LONDON TO BE OBTAINED OF THE FABIAN SOCIETY, 276 STRAND, W.C. REPRINTED NOVEMBER 1895 THE IMPOSSIBILITIES OF ANARCHISM.[1] ...

PROLOGUE I Moncrief House, Panley Common.

All rights reserved PREFACE The Admirable Bashville is a product of the British law of copyright.

Credits for Temi Rose Production of GB Shaw's Major Barbara Directed by Temi Rose CAST: Andrew Undershaft - Laurence Cantor Lady Britomart Undershaft - Lucy McMichael (Major) Barbara Undershaft...

Credits for Temi Rose production of GB Shaw's The Doctor's Dilemma Directed by Temi Rose CAST: Sir Colenso Ridgeon - Ross Hewitt Redpenny - Jason Daniel Siegel Emmy - Michelle Sims Dr. Schutzma...

Act One Heartbreak House Act 1 Part 1 Felix Mendelssohn, Four Songs Without Words.