August 2002

Transferred to www.oscholars.com with minor revisions January 2009

‘Oh, Shaw! That’s the man who smokes Jaeger cigarettes!’
– Oscar Wilde, quoted by Richard Le Gallienne: The Romantic Nineties.
New edition. London: Putnam & Co 1951 p.81

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This is our fourth collection of Shavings, where Wilde/Shaw links are recorded.

In this section we shall also try to cover productions of Shaw’s pre-1900 plays, and news of productions of these (with offers of review) will be most welcome. The plays are Arms and the Man, Cæsar and Cleopatra, Candida, Captain Brassbound’s Conversion, The Devil’s Disciple, The Man of Destiny, Mrs Warren’s Profession, The Philanderer, Widowers’ Houses, You Never Can Tell.

Two plays in the current season at the Shaw Theatre in Niagara-on-the-Lake date from before 1900, Caesar and Cleopatra, written in 1898 (directed by Christopher Newton), and Candida, written in 1895 (directed by Jackie Maxwell).

A list of websites 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 WEB SITE:

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

Other websites include

http://www.infography.com/content/272906973619.html (a bibliography)

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

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, a remarkable list.

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.

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

Shaw’s birthplace, 33 Synge Street, Dublin.

‘Oscar Wilde said of me: “An excellent man: he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him”; but they are my friends, and some of them love me. If you value a man’s regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper, and despise it.’

– George Bernard Shaw to Ellen Terry 25th September 1896.

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