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Author Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950.

Title Complete plays with prefaces / Bernard Shaw.

Publication Info. New York : Dodd, Mead, & Company ; [1962]
©1962

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Description 6 volumes : portraits ; 22 cm
Contents volume 1. Publishers' note. -- How these doctors love one another! -- The doctor's dilemma. -- Preface on doctors. -- Pygmalion. -- Preface to Pygmalion -- Postscript. -- Major Barbara. -- Preface to Major Barbara. -- Heartbreak House. -- Heartbreak House and Horseback Hill. -- Captain Brassbound's conversion. -- Notes to Captain Brassbound's conversion. -- The man of destiny. -- Buoyant billions. -- Preface -- volume 2. Back to Methuselah. -- Contents to preface. -- Preface. -- Postscript after twentyfive years. -- A glimpse of the domesticity of Franklyn Barnabas. -- "Link" for back to Methuselah. -- In the beginning : B.C. 4004 (In the Garden of Eden) -- The gospel of the Brothers Barnabas: Present day. -- The thing happens: A.D. 2170. -- Tragedy of an elderly gentleman: A.D. 3000. -- As far as thought can reach: A.D. 31,920. -- Saint Joan. -- Preface to Saint Joan. -- Program note. -- John Bull's other island. -- Preface to the home rule edition of 1912. -- Preface for politicians. -- Program note. -- The dark lady of the sonnets. -- Preface to The dark lady of the sonnets. -- New prologue, 1938. -- Beauty's duty -- v. 3. Preface to the first volume of plays: pleasant and unpleasant. -- Preface to three plays for puritans. -- Mrs. Warren's profession. -- Preface. -- Preface to the second volume of plays: pleasant and unpleasant. -- Arms and the man. -- Candida. -- The Devil's disciple. -- Caesar and Cleopatra. -- An alternative to the prologue. -- Notes to Caesar and Cleopatra. -- Man and superman. -- Epistle dedicatory to Arthur Bingham Walkley. -- Don Juan in Hell (Act III, scene II) -- The revolutionist's handbook and pocket companion. -- Prefact to the revolutionist's handbook. -- Maxims for revolutionists. -- Program note Don Juan in Hell. -- A foreward to the popular edition of Man and superman. -- Arthur and the acetone -- v. 4. Misalliance. -- Parents and children. -- The apple cart. -- Preface. --Getting married. -- Prefact to Getting married. -- Widowers' houses. -- Great Catherine. -- The author's apology for Great Catherine. -- Too true to be good. -- Preface. -- Preface: Trifles and tomfooleries. -- The glimpse of reality. -- Passion, poison, and petrifaction. -- The fascinating foundling. -- Cymbeline refinished. -- Foreword. -- v. 5. Why she would not. -- Shakes versus shav. -- Preface. -- The six of Calais. -- Prefatory to The six of Calais. -- Annajanska, the Bolshevik empress. -- Prefatory note. -- Augustus does his bit. -- Prefatory note. -- The Inca of Perusalem. -- Prefatory note. -- O'Flaherty V.C. -- Prefatory note. -- The music-cure. -- Prefatory note. -- The shewing-up of Blanco Posnet. -- Preface. -- The rejected statement. -- Preface resumed. -- The admirable Bashville. -- Preface. -- Androcles and the lion. -- Preface on the prospects of Christianity. -- Program note. -- Postscript. -- On the rocks. -- Preface. -- Jesus-Pilate scene. -- Geneva. -- Preface. -- Program note. -- How he lied to her husband. -- Prefatory note. -- Village wooing. -- Playlet on the British party system -- v. 6. "In good King Charles's golden days." -- Preface. -- Fanny's first play. -- Prefact to Fanny's first play. -- Alternate prologue. -- The millionairess. -- Preface on bosses. -- The interlude at the playhouse. -- Press cuttings. -- Overruled. -- Preface to overruled. -- Jitta's atonement. -- Translator's note. -- Farfetched fables. -- Preface. -- The simpleton of the Unexpected Isles. -- Preface on Days of Judgement. -- You never can tell. -- The philanderer. -- Prefatory note. -- Chronology of the plays. -- Index.
Form Also issued online.
Summary Vol. 1: Pygmalion - Major Barbara - Heartbreak House - Captain Brasshound's Conversion - Man of destiny - Buoyant Billions.
Genre/Form Drama. (OCoLC)fst01423879
English drama -- 20th century.
Irish drama -- 20th century.
Drama.
Added Title Plays
Other Form: Online version: Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950. Plays. Complete plays. New York, Dodd, Mead, 1962 (OCoLC)575189769
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