APPENDIX

BibliographY 2007 COMPILED with commentaries BY BARBARA PFEIFER, ASSOCIATE EDITOR

With an addendum compiled by Linda Pui-Ling Wong, May 2008.

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I. Works by Shaw

Bernard Shaw. al-Insan wa-al-Insan al Kamel [Man and Superman]. Translated by Hassam Sadek al-Tumaimy. Beirut: Dar al-Bihar, 2007.

---. The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God. Foreword by Colm Toibin. London: Hesperus Press, 2007.

---. Androcles and the Lion. Jackson Hole, Wyoming: Archeion Press, 2007.

---. Androcles and the Lion. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Indypublish.com, 2007.

---. Aventuras de una negrita en busca de Dios [The Black Girl in the Search of God]. Translated by Benito Gómez Ibáñez. Narrativa Galaxia 45. Barcelona: Galaxia Gutenberg, 2007.

---. Arms and the Man. Edited by J. P. Wearing. London: A & C Black, 2008.

---. Arms and the Man. Jackson Hole, Wyoming: Archeion Press, 2007.

---. Arms and the Man. Saint Louis Park, Minnesota: Filiquarian Publishing, 2007.

---. Arms and the Man. Minneapolis, Minnesota: FQ Classics, 2007.

---. Back to Methuselah. Charleston, South Carolina: BiblioBazaar, 2007.

---. Back to Methuselah. Fairfield, Iowa: 1st World Library, 2007.

---. Caesar and Cleopatra. Jackson Hole, Wyoming: Archeion Press, 2007.

---. Caesar and Cleopatra. Charleston, South Carolina: BiblioBazaar, 2007.

---. Cashel Byron’s Profession. Charleston, South Carolina: BiblioBazaar, 2007.

---. Cashel Byron’s Profession. Whitefish, Montana: Kessinger Publishing, 2007.

---. Cashel Byron’s Profession. Fairfield, Iowa: 1st World Library, 2007.

---. ‘The Cinema As a Moral Leveller.’ New Statesman (28 May 2007): 62.

---. The Devil’s Disciple. Jackson Hole, Wyoming : Archeion Press, 2007.

---. The Doctor’s Dilemma. Jackson Hole, Wyoming: Archeion Press, 2007.

---. The Doctor’s Dilemma. Charleston, South Carolina: BiblioBazaar, 2007.

---. The Doctor’s Dilemma. Cambridge, Massachusetts: IndyPublish.com, 2007.

---. Fanny’s First Play. Cambridge, Massachusetts: IndyPublish.com, 2007.

---. Getting Married. Charleston, South Carolina: BiblioBazaar, 2007.

---. Getting Married. Fairfield, Iowa: First World Library, 2007.

---. Heartbreak House. Jackson Hole, Wyoming: Archeion Press, 2007.

---. Heartbreak House. Charleston, South Carolina: BiblioBazaar, 2007.

---. The Irrational Knot. Fairfield, Iowa: 1st World Library, 2007.

---. John Bull’s Other Island. Jackson Hole, Wyoming: Archeion Press, 2007.

---. The Letters of Bernard Shaw to The Times. Edited by Ronald Ford. Foreword by Michel Pharand. Dublin and Portland, Oregon: Irish Academic Press, 2007.

· Bernard Shaw lived through a time of great change, in which he played a major role, and many of the momentous events of the twentieth century are touched upon in this important collection. The Times was a powerful medium not just in England but throughout the empire and in its heyday the views aired in the main articles and the letters columns were heeded and discussed. From his first letter in 1898, Shaw was endeavouring to gain acceptance in the columns of The Times in a way that was distinct from his other personae of critic, socialist, and playwright. Shaw took on the world of scholars, politicians, critics, and the medical profession. He offered advice on economics to different Chancellors and got involved in the campaign for women's rights and the letters range over a wide variety of subjects that include Art, Music, Theatre, Language, Phonetics, Politics, Medicine, Economics, and Women's Rights. He became an icon who was labelled by Bertrand Russell as an iconoclast. This book is a collection of five decades of Shaw's letters. (summary provided by publisher)

---. Major Barbara. Edited by Nicholas Grene. New Mermaids. London: Methuen Drama, 2008.

---. Major Barbara. Jackson Hole, Wyoming: Archeion Press, 2007.

---. Man and Superman. Charleston, South Carolina: BiblioBazaar, 2007.

---. Misalliance. Jackson Hole, Wyoming: Archeion Press, 2007.

---. Misalliance. Whitefish, Montana: Kessinger Publishing, 2007.

---. Mrs Warren's Profession. Edited by Norma Margaret Jenckes. New Mermaids. London: Methuen Drama, 2008.

---. Mrs Warren’s Profession. Jackson Hole, Wyoming: Archeion Press, 2007.

---. ‘A Note on Irish Nationalism’. New Statesman (14 January 2008): 62.

---. The Philanderer. Jackson Hole, Wyoming: Archeion Press, 2007.

---. Pigmalion. Edited by Florian Sobieniowski. Dzieła Najwybitniejszych Noblistów, 23. [Warszawa]: TMM Polska/Planeta Marketing, 2007.

---. Pygmalion. Edited by L. W. Conolly. New Mermaids. London: Methuen Drama, 2008.

---. Pygmalion. Jackson Hole, Wyoming: Archeion Press, 2007.

---. Pygmalion. A Romance in Five Acts. [München]: Langenscheidt, 2007.

---. A Treatise on Parents and Children. Charleston, South Carolina: BiblioBazaar, 2007.

---. An Unsocial Socialist. Charleston, South Carolina: BiblioBazaar, 2007.

---. You Never Can Tell. Jackson Hole, Wyoming: Archeion Press, 2007.

Wilde, Oscar, and Bernard Shaw. Shakespeares älskade. Translated by Ulf Liljedahl. Etyder, 6. Lund: Ellerström, 2007.

· This study contrasts Oscar Wilde’s The Portrait of Mr W. H. and Shaw’s play The Dark Lady of The Sonnets.

II. Books

Bates, Robin E. Shakespeare and the Cultural Colonization of Ireland. New York: Routledge, 2008.

· Focusing on plays (Richard II, Henry V, and Hamlet) which appear prominently in the writing of the Irish nationalist movement of the early twentieth century, this study explores how Irish writers such as Sean O’Casey, Samuel Beckett, W. B. Yeats, Bernard Shaw, James Joyce, and Seamus Heaney, resisted English cultural colonization through a combination of reappropriation and critique of Shakespeare's work. (summary provided by publisher)

Chervysheva, Victoriia. Bernard Shou skandal zakazyvali? [Moskva]: OLMA Mediagrupp, 2007.

Chesterton, G. K. George Bernard Shaw. Cambridge, Massachusetts: IndyPublish.com, 2007.

---. Chesterton on War: Militarism, Pacifism, and Germany’s Teutonic Racism. Edited by Michael W. Perry. Seattle, Washington: Inkling Books, 2007.

Crawford, MaryAnn Krajnik, and Michel Pharand (eds.) SHAW. The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies 27 (2007). University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press.

DiGaetani, John Louis. Stages of Struggle: Modern Playwrights and Their Psychological Inspirations. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co, 2008.

· One way or another, all playwrights use their work to explore the issues that interest them. The characters in a play may trumpet their creator’s political views from the stage, or an unusual structure or set design may result from the playwright’s interest in theatrical form. It is also common, particularly in the plays of the 20th and 21st century, to see a playwright delving into psychological issues raised by his own mental struggles or those of people he loves. Luigi Pirandello, tormented by the schizophrenia of his wife and other family members, repeatedly explored the problems caused by different visions of reality. Noël Coward’s self-obsessed characters reflect his own narcissism. Alcoholism is a recurrent theme in the works of many playwrights, including Eugene O’Neill, Edward Albee, and Brian Friel. Through their exploration of these issues and more, the great writers of the theater have turned suffering into art. This book looks at the work of 20 playwrights to see how their examination of the disturbed mind has influenced the modern theater. (summary provided by publisher)

George Bernard Shaw Note Book With 224 Quotes. Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario: Shaw Festival, 2007.

Holman, J. K. (ed.) Wagner Moments. A Celebration of Favorite Wagner Experiences. New York: Amadeus Press, 2007.

· The music dramas of Richard Wagner have, for the last 150 years, thrilled and amazed listeners everywhere. In Wagner Moments, author J. K. Holman has assembled 100 such moments, from the living and dead, famous and not so famous, from Charles Baudelaire to Placido Domingo, musicians and non-musicians. Mr. Holman edits these stories, placing them in their biographical and historical context. (summary provided by publisher)

Li, Kay. Bernard Shaw and China: Cross-Cultural Encounters. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida, 2007.

· Bernard Shaw ‘traveled’ to China in three respects: publication of his work, theater production of it, and his actual passage in 1933. The first Chinese performances of Shaw's plays have long been regarded as failures, but Kay Li presents evidence from correspondence and from rare newspaper reports that reveals these early productions could be regarded as qualified successes and brave endeavors.
A native Chinese speaker, Li examines the interactions between Shaw and his Chinese audience, readers, and translators and shows how young Chinese intellectuals of the time made use of the performances to help shape Chinese identity. Shaw's work and his visit itself – the presence of an esteemed Nobel laureate – allowed them to advance the cause of Chinese nationalism, advocate for the modernization of society, and push China closer to the main currents of world culture. (summary provided by publisher)

Meyers, Jeffrey, and Roberto Mares. Grandes matrimonios en la literatura [Married to Genius]. México: Grupo Editorial Tomo, 2007.

· This biography discusses famous couples in literary history, including Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, James and Nora Joyce, Joseph and Jessie Conrad, and Bernard and Charlotte Shaw.

Morse, Barry. Remember with Advantages: Chasing the Fugitive and Other Stories from an Actor’s Life. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2007.

· In this memoir Morse traces his life and career, including his years at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, his radio jobs with the BBC, his 60-year marriage to actress Sydney Sturgess and their years together in the Court Players, his roles on television shows (The Fugitive, Space: 1999), and his acquaintance with literary lights (George Bernard Shaw) and screen stars (Robert Mitchum and Peter Cushing). Photographs from the Morse family collection are included. (summary provided by publisher)

Saint Joan: Shaw Festival Study Guide 2007. Shaw Festival. April 2007. http://www.shawfest.com/shaw07/pdf/guides/Saint_Joan_Study_Guide.pdf

Shen, Qian. Xia fa Xiaobona you mo = Bernard Shaw humour. Jiu ge wen ku, 775. Taibei Shi: Jiu ge chu ban she you xian gong si, 2007.

Wilder, Thornton. Collected Plays & Writings on Theater. Edited by J. D. McClatchy. New York: The Library of America, 2007.

· This collection takes the measure of Wilder's extraordinary career as a dramatist by presenting the complete span of his achievement, beginning with his early expressionist experiments and daring one-act plays, ranging through the full flowering of maturity, and encompassing the intriguing dramatic projects of his later years, such as his adaptation of the ancient story of Alcestis (The Alcestiad) and plays written for dramatic cycles based on the Seven Deadly Sins and the varied ages of an individual's life. Complementing the selection of plays is an illuminating group of essays that captures Wilder's reflections on his plays and contains a revealing epistolary account of the film adaptation of Our Town, as well as evaluations of dramatists such as Sophocles, George Bernard Shaw, and the Austrian satirist Johann Nestroy. (summary provided by publisher)

III. Articles

Allen, Brooke. ‘No Place’. The New Criterion 25.8 (2007): 51-55.

· The article looks into the passion of continental Europe for political and aesthetic philosophising which flourished in the French Revolution. The author cites that theater ideas have never prospered in London or New York despite the anomalous success of George Bernard Shaw. The plays of Tom Stoppard are the exception to the general rules since it has remained a more specialized and arcane taste than the popular plays of Shaw. (abstract)

Batts, Battinto. ‘Pygmalion: Connecting for Community Oriented Play’. The Strayer University Chesapeake campus-Chesapeake/Virginia Beach Chapter of the Links, Inc., production. The Virginian Pilot-Ledger Star (1 February 2007): OE38.

Bornstein, Lisa. ‘Nice to See You Again, Mrs Warren’. Review of the Denver Center Theatre Company production. Rocky Mountain News (Denver) (30 March 2007): 20.

Brown, Mark. ‘Theatre: Mrs Warren’s Profession: Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh [production]’. Daily Telegraph (28 February 2007): 29.

Daniels, A. ‘The Cure for Bernard Shaw’. The New Criterion 26.2 (2007): 4-9.

· The article discusses his reaction on the theories of prose writer Bernard Shaw. The author claims that Shaw campaigned for anti-vaccination and accused the medical profession of complete ignorance of scientific method and statistical reasoning. He suggests that Shaw used his anti-vaccination stance just to attract notice and excite comment. He also argues that if Shaw had had his way, smallpox would still be with us. (abstract)

‘Editor’s Comment’. Southern Humanities Review 42/3 (2007): ii-iv.

· The article presents a comment on the statement from George Bernard Shaw about teaching profession, author. The author comments that the sentiment comes from some scriptwriter cackling in satisfaction at having produced a Burty Reynolds screenplay. The author added that the Shaw sentiment makes some sense. The author explains that one has the obligation to lend expertise to younger voices, to assist them with interpretation and phrasing. One thinks of the disciplined instruction of Margaret Hines Roberts, the teacher of Thomas Wolfe. (abstract)

Fraser, Kathryn. ‘'Now I Am Ready to Tell How Bodies Are Changed into Different Bodies …'. Ovid, The Metamorphoses’. Makeover Television: Realities Remodelled. Ed. Dana Heller. London: Tauris, 2007. 177-192.

· The article discusses contemporary women’s makeover shows and the ‘powers of transformation’ inherent to reality television in relation to Shaw’s Pygmalion.

Goldman, Michael. ‘Shavian Poetics. Shaw on Form and Context’. Princeton University Library Chronicle 68.1-2 (Autumn 2006-Winter 2007): 71-81.

Green, Adam. ‘People Are Talking About - Theater - Jefferson Mays and Claire Danes Take on George Bernard Shaw and Each Other in a Smart, Reimagined Broadway Production of Pygmalion, Writes Adam Green’. Vogue (September 2007): 591.

IV. ADDENDUM COMPILED BY LINDA PUI-LING WONG, May 2008

Chen, Jing. ‘Maid off the Altar—Upon Image Reconstruction in Shaw’s Historical Play Saint Joan.’ Journal of Hefei University of Technology (Social Sciences) (China) 21.4 (August 2007): 121-124. [In Chinese].

Liu, Tao. ‘A Trap in Realism—Is Shaw a Playwright of Realism?’ Journal of PLA Academy of Arts (China) 4 (2007): 59-63. [In Chinese].

Shen, Qian. Bernard Shaw’s Humor. Taipei, Taiwan: Jiuge, 2007. [In Chinese].

Tang, Hongmei. ‘Disillusionment in Shaw’s Latter Plays.’ Sichuan Drama (China) 4 (2007): 16-18. [In Chinese].

Tang, Wan. ‘Transformation and Disillusionment—Eliza’s Growing up in Pygmalion.’ Journal of Chongqing Vocational & Technical Institute (China) 16.2 (March 2007): 131-133. [In Chinese].

Wu, Xianze. ‘Bernard Shaw’s Drama Creation and Its Influence on China.’ Journal of Sichuan College of Education (China) 23 (October 2007): 87-88. [In Chinese].

Zhao, Linya. ‘Analyze Eliza’s Transformation from Ontological Self to the Epistemological Self.’ Journal of Anyang Institute of Technology (China) 5 (2007): 64-66. [In Chinese].

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