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APPENDIX

Bibliographies & Links

 

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a.      GBS for Wildeans

b.      Websites and blogs

c.       Barbara Pfeifer’s Shaw bibliography (on separate page)

a.  GBS for Wildeans: A Bibliography of 19th century Shaw.

This will be a cumulative bibliography as references come to hand.

Beerbohm, Max:  Around Theatres.  London: Rupert Hart-Davis 1953.

·         This carries reviews of plays published in the Saturday Review, namely The Devil’s Disciple (‘‘G.B.S.’ at Kennington’, 7th October 1899, pp.38-41; and the 1907 revival ‘Mr. Vedrenne’, 26th October 1907, pp.481-4); You Never Can Tell (12th May 1900, pp.78-9); the 1901 reprint of Cashel Byron’s Profession (‘A Cursory Conspectus of G.B.S.’, 2nd November 1901, pp.171-5); Mrs Warren’s Profession (‘Mr Shaw’s Tragedy’, 1st February 1902, pp.191-5); the 1907 revival of The Philanderer (9th February 1907 pp.449-51); and the 1908 revival of Arms and the Man(4th January 1908, pp.491-3).  There is also a review of the published edition of Three Plays for Puritans (The Devil’s Disciple, Cæsar and Cleopatra and Captain Brassbound’s Conversion) (‘Mr Shaw Crescent’, 26th January 1901, pp.  118-22).

Outside our current range are reviews of The Doctors’ Dilemma, Getting Married, John Bull’s Other Island, Major Barbara, Man and Superman, Misalliance, and Pygmalion.

Beerbohm, Max: More Theatres. London: Rupert Hart-Davis 1969. This volume contains Beerbohm’s pieces for the Saturday Review that he omitted from the first edition of Around Theatres (1924), an omission followed in the 1953 edition.

·         This volume opens with three squibs against Shaw ‘G.B.S. Oblige’ (9th April 1898, pp.17-21), ‘Mr Shaw’s Profession’ (14th May 1898, pp.21-4) and ‘Mr Shaw’s Profession II’ (pp.25-7, 21st May 1898).  These contain allusions to Arms and the Man (p.25), Candida (p.26), Mrs Warren’s Profession (pp.21-4,25), Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant (p.11), The Devil’s Disciple (pp.21, 335), The Philanderer (p.21), Widowers’ Houses (21, 25), You Never Can Tell (pp.25, 26).

There are further references to Mrs Warren’s Profession (p.70), Arms and the Man (p267), Cæsar & Cleopatra (p.271),

The volume also contains a review of Captain Brassbound’s Conversion (29th December 1900, pp.335-7).  From beyond our period is The Admirable Bashville (pp.580-2).

Borsa, Mario: The English Stage of To-day.  Translated from the original Italian and edited with a prefatory note by Selwyn Brinton M.A.  London: John Lane The Bodley Head 1908.   This has one chapter on Shaw.

·         Chapter IV: G.B.S.

Boyd, Ernest A.: Appreciations and Depreciations, Irish Literary Portraits. Dublin: Talbot Press & London: T. Fisher Unwin 1919.  This has one chapter on Shaw.

·         Chapter V: An Irish Protestant, Bernard Shaw.

Broad, C. Lewis & Broad, Violet M. (George Bernard Shaw). Dictionary to the Plays and Novels of Bernard Shaw With Bibliography of His Works and of the Literature Concerning Him With a Record of the Principal Shavian Play Productions. ill. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1929.

Dietrich, Richard:  Portrait of the Artist as a Young Superman: A Study of Shaw’s Novels. Gainesville: University of Florida Press 1969.

GIBBS, A[nthony] M.: Bernard Shaw: A Life. Gainesville: University Press of Florida 2005 / Sydney: University of New South Wales Press 2006.

·         Contains many useful references to Wilde and Alfred Douglas. The main discussions of the Shaw-Wilde correspondence and relationship are in Chapter 5, ‘Self-Searching: London and the Novels’ pp. 86-7 (focussing on the allusions to Wilde and the Æsthetic Movement in Shaw's first novel Immaturity); and in Chapter 15, ‘Eternal Irishman’, pp. 255-58 (more generally about Wilde and Shaw). The Shaw-Douglas correspondence is discussed in Chapter 23, ‘World Traveller and Village Squire’, pp.417-18 (the Harris biography of Wilde and Irish politics, etc.). Tony Gibbs, Emeritus Professor of English at Macquarie University, is also the author of Shaw (Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd Writers and Critics Series, 1969); The Art and Mind of Shaw: Essays in Criticism (London: Macmillan; Dublin: Gill & Macmillan,1983); Shaw: Interviews and Recollections (London: Macmillan,1990); ‘Heartbreak House’: Preludes of Apocalypse (New York: Twayne; Ontario: Maxwell Macmillan,1994); and A Bernard Shaw

Green, Benny. Shaw’s Champions: G.B.S. and Prize Fighting from Cashel Byron to Gene Tunney. London: Elm Tree Books, 1978.

Innes, Christopher (ed.): The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1998.  This contains four essays on the younger Shaw:

·         Gordon, David J.: Shavian Comedy and the Shadow of Wilde;

·         Kelly, Katherine E.: Imprinting the Stage: Shaw and the Publishing Trade 1883-1903;

·         Marker, Frederick J.: Shaw’s early plays;

·         Powell, Kerry: New Women, new plays, and Shaw in the 1890s.

Jackson, Holbrook: The Eighteen Nineties. 1913.  Pelican Books 1939.  This contains a chapter devoted to Shaw.

·         Chapter XIV: Enter G.B.S.

Kennedy, J.M.:  English Literature 1880-1905.  London: Stephen Swift 1912.  This contains one chapter on Shaw.

·         Chapter VI: George Bernard Shaw.

Laurence, Dan H.: Bernard Shaw, Collected Letters 1874-1897.  London: Max Reinhardt 1965.

Laurence, Dan H: Bernard Shaw, Collected Letters 1898-1910.  London: Max Reinhardt 1972.

McBriar, A.M.: Fabian Socialism & English Politics 1884-1918.  London: Cambridge University Press, 1962.

·         This covers the story of George Bernard Shaw, William Morris, Keir Hardie, Bertrand Russell and H.G. Wells, and the origins of Fabian socialism in the nineteenth century.

Meisel, Martin: Shaw and the Nineteenth Century Theater.  Princeton University Press 1963; new edition New York: Limelight Editions 1984 ISBN 0-87910-017-6.

Morgan, A.L.: Tendencies of Modern English Drama.  London: Constable 1924.  This contains three chapters on Shaw:

·         Chapter VI.  Shaw the Iconoclast– Iconoclast

·         Chapter VII: Shaw the Iconoclast–Social Iconoclast

·         Chapter VIII: Shaw the Philosopher.

NASSAAR, Christopher S.: ‘Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan and Shaw's Mrs Warren's Profession, in The Explicator, Vol.  56 (Spring 1998), 137-138. 

·         Argues that Wilde's play is a chief influence on Shaw's.

Nicoll, Allardyce: British Drama, An Historical Survey from the Beginning to the Present Time. London: George G. Harrap 1925; second edition 1927; 3rd edition revised 1932, reprinted 1945.  Nicoll specifically links Shaw and Wilde.

·         Part VII: The Revival in the Drama (1890-1920)

                           Chapter IV: The Revival of Comedy and the Theatre of G.B. Shaw.

                                           (i) Wilde and the Comedy of Manners

                                           (iii)  George Bernard Shaw.

Peters, Sally: Bernard Shaw, The Ascent of the Superman.  New Haven & London: Yale University Press 1996.

·         This is chiefly concerned with the first half of Shaw’s life, and includes some notable ‘queer’ reading.

Scott, Dixon: ‘The Innocence of Bernard Shaw’.  The Bookman 1913, reprinted in Dixon Scott: Men of Letters.  London: Hodder & Stoughton 1916 pp.2-47.

– and covering a later period than the pre-1901 Shaw, the following should be mentioned:

Hyde, Mary (ed.): Bernard Shaw and Alfred Douglas, A Correspondence.  London: John Murray 1982.

Weintraub, Stanley (ed.): The Playwright and the Pirate, Bernard Shaw and Frank Harris, A Correspondence.  Pittsburgh: Pennsylvania State University Press and Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1982.

·         This covers not only Harris’s ‘biography’ of Shaw but the attempts of Harris to involve Shaw in his book on Wilde.  The first letter in this collection is Harris to Shaw 30th November 1898.  The second (Shaw to Harris 4th November 1900) gives Shaw’s views on Mr and Mrs Daventry.   There is one more letter from this period (Shaw to Harris 16th December 1900); the correspondence resumes in December 1904.

 

The following bring together Shaw and Wilde:

Bader, Earl Delbert:  ‘The Self-Reflexive Language: uses of Paradox in Wilde, Shaw and Chesterton .’ Ph. D. dissertation. Indiana University 1962.

Beckson, Karl:  ‘Oscar Wilde’s Celebrated Remark on Bernard Shaw.’  Notes and Queries 41(239): 3 Oxford 1994.

Gollin, Richard M.: ‘Beerbohm, Wilde, Shaw and ‘The Good-Natured Critic’.’  Bulletin of the New York Public Library 68, New York February 1964.

Harris, Frank: Oscar Wilde, including My Memories of Oscar Wilde by George Bernard Shaw.   Carroll: New York 1997.

Harris, Frank: Oscar Wilde: His Life & Confessions, with memories of Oscar Wilde by Bernard Shaw and Criticisms by Robert Ross. The author, 2nd edition, the first with the pieces by Shaw and Ross. New York 1918.

Harris, Frank: Oscar Wilde: His Life & Confessions.  Together with Memories of Wilde by Bernard Shaw. The author.  London 1918.

Harris, Frank: Oscar Wilde: His Life & Confessions.  Together with Memories of Wilde by Bernard Shaw. New York: Crown Publishing Co  1930.

Hill, John Edward: ‘Dialectical Æstheticism — Essays on the Criticism of Swinburne, Pater, Wilde, James, Shaw and Yeats’.   University of Virginia Thesis Virginia 1972.

Jordan, John: ‘Shaw, Wilde, Synge and Yeats: Ideas, Epigrams, Blackberries and Chassis’ in The Irish Mind; Exploring Intellectual Traditions Dublin: Wolfhound 1985.

Koritz, Amy E.: ‘Gendering Bodies, Performing Art: Theatrical Dancing and the Performance Æsthetics of Wilde, Shaw & Yeats’.  Dissertation Abstracts International 50 : 3 [North Carolina 1988] Ann Arbor 1989.

Lee, Josephine D.: ‘Language & Action in the Plays of Wilde, Shaw & Stoppard.’  Dissertation Abstracts International 48 : 7 Ann Arbor 1988.

Livermore, Ann:  ‘Goldoni, Wilde and Shaw: Co-Inventors of Comedy’.  Revue de la Littérature Comparée 53  pp.108-24  1979.

Loughney, Martin: Springs of Irish Wisdom: Shaw, Wilde, Swift, Yeats.  Dublin: Infinity Books  1989.

Nassaar, Christopher Suhal: ‘Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan and Shaw’s Mrs Warren’s Profession’.  Explicator 56 pp.137-8.  Washington DC 1998.

Powell, Kerry: ‘Wilde, Shaw and Women of the Stage’.  William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Conference: Oscar Wilde and the Culture of the Fin-de-Siècle, Session II Los Angeles 5th March 1999.

Roy, Emil: British Drama Since Shaw [Chapter on The Importance of Being Earnest] Carbondale and London: Southern Illinois U.P. & Feffer and Simons 1972.

Ruff, William: ‘Shaw on Wilde and Morris, A Clarification’  Shaw Review 11 : 1  January 1968.

Sherard, Robert Harborough: Bernard Shaw, Frank Harris & Oscar Wilde.  New York 1936.

Sherard, Robert Harborough: Bernard Shaw, Frank Harris & Oscar Wilde. T. Werner Laurie  London 1937.

Sherard, Robert Harborough: Oscar Wilde ‘Drunkard & Swindler’: A Reply to George Bernard Shaw, Dr G.J. Renier, Frank Harris etc.  Calvi: Vindex Publishing Co.  1933.

Weintraub, Stanley: ‘‘The Hibernian School’: Oscar Wilde and Bernard Shaw.’  SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies  13  1993.

Weintraub, Stanley:   Shaw’s People: Victoria to Churchill.  University Park, Pennsylvania: 1996.

Wisenthal, J. L.: ‘Wilde, Shaw and the Play of Conversation Modern Drama’ (U. of Toronto Graduate Centre for Study of Drama) 37:1 Downsview, Ontario Spring 1994.

·         We welcome additions and corrections, and would much like to hear from any of the writers.

b.  Websites and a newly added blog

A list of websites kindly provided  by Richard Dietrich (University of Southern Florida):

BERNARD SHAW SOCIETY WEB SITE:

http://chuma.cas.usf.edu/~dietrich/shawsociety.html

UNIVERSITY PRESS OF FLORIDA SHAW SERIES WEBSITE:

http://www.upf.com/shaw.html

http://www.upf.com/se-shaw.html

SHAW BIZNESS WEB SITE:

http://chuma.cas.usf.edu/~dietrich/shawbizness.html

INTERNATIONAL SHAW SOCIETY WEB SITE:

http://chuma.cas.usf.edu/~dietrich/international_shaw_society/index.html

THE SHAW FESTIVAL

http://www.shawfest.com

Virtual Shaw site developed by Kay Li for the international shaw society

http://www.geocities.com/issbernardshaw/shaviana.htm

Other websites include

http://www.infography.com/content/272906973619.html

v      Note added October 2006: this is a bibliography, or, rather, a guide to further reading but lists nothing later than Jean Reynolds: Pygmalion’s Wordplay: The Postmodern Shaw. The University of Florida Press, 1999.

http://www.therightside.demon.co.uk/quotes/shaw/ which has 123 quotations from Shaw, but irritatingly does not source them. 

v      Note added October 2006: this has now moved to http://www.funthingies.com/quotes.php?QuoteFile=george-bernard-shaw but no new quotations have been added.

http://www.georgebernardshaw.com/ is The Bernard Shaw Information & Research Service, which has as its Patrons Dame Diana Rigg, Dame Wendy Hiller, Brian Cox, Richard E Grant and Jerry Hall.

v      Note added October 2006: The link no longer brings up the BSIRS but a page of diverse links to other sites, one of these being a list of other Shaw references on the web… Dame Wendy died some years ago.

http://www.phnet.fi/public/mamaa1/shaw.html also gives an unsourced list of ‘quotes’ – ‘one-liners’ – presented in a table.  The best use of it is to check all those sayings ascribed to Wilde that are in fact by Shaw. 

v      Note added October 2006: Our first attempt to reconsult this site caused our computer to crash; and our second attempt brought a dialogue box saying that the site could not be found.

http://www.shawchicago.org is the site of the Shaw Chicago Theatre Company, specialising in Shaw’s plays.

v      Note added October 2006: worth a visit.

http://www.theheritagetrail.co.uk/notable%20houses/shaws%20corner.htm has two pictures of Shaw’s house and a brief account. 

v      Note added October 2006:  Only one picture is now given of the house here described in the following terms: ‘For the past 50 years, this quite unremarkable, dreary vicarage building, has provided a cosy, welcoming atmosphere in which visitors are given the opportunity to delve more deeply into the life of this literary genius.’

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/programmes/centurions/shaw/shawbiog.shtml gives a biography of Shaw as it appeared to the BBC compilers. 

v      Note added October 2006:  This page can no longer be found; but Maureen O’Connor has found for us http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ni/2006/07/shavian_travels.html. 

This was the first ‘blog’ we have ever looked at.  If you like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing you like…

http://mobydicks.com/lecture/BernardShawhall/wwwboard.html is a discussion group, with the somewhat brassbound greeting ‘Ahoy mate! Welcome to the new Bernard Shaw lecture hall!  The old Bernard Shaw lecture hall may be found at http://mobydicks.com/lecture/BernardShawhall/wwwboard23.html.  Visit the Bernard Shaw Live Chat, and use the forum below to schedule a chat session.’ 

v      Note added October 2006:  Rather to our surprise this site still exists, now called the ‘Bernard Shaw and Saint Joan Lecture Hall’.  The Chat Session has the preface

‘Welcome to the Bernard Shaw Live Recitation Chat. Every day, on the hour, fans of the Great Books from around the world gather here to participate in a live recitation centered about Bernard Shaw. Generally this chatroom is most active from 9:00 PM to 3:00 AM EST, but you may arrange other times to meet here in the Bernard Shaw Lecture Hall, where you can also post more permanent messages and enjoy an archive of fellow student’s wit and wisdom.’

We found it difficult to get past this somewhat unlikely introduction to GBS.  Clicking on the Bernard Shaw Lecture Hall  merely brought us back to the home page.  We may try again later…

http://www.lyfe.freeserve.co.uk/quoteshaw.htm is another site with Shaw quotations, again, irritatingly, unsourced.  Substitute wilde for shaw in the URL for an Oscar Wilde quotation site.

v      Note added October 2006: The home page of this useless site is called Chuckle Corner, a Cornucopia of Giggle.   Best avoided.

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