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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 (Author)
Other Authors: Moran, James, 1978- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2021.
Series:Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Subjects:
Drama.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Note on the text
  • Select bibliography
  • A chronology of George Bernard Shaw
  • Abbreviations
  • Farces. How he lied to her husband
  • Passion, poison, and petrifaction
  • Press cuttings
  • Overruled
  • War playlets. The Inca of Perusalem
  • O'Flaherty V.C.
  • Augustus does his bit
  • Annajanska, the Bolshevik empress
  • Historical sketches. The shewing-up of Blanco Posnet
  • Great Catherine (whom glory still adores)
  • The six of Calais
  • The British party system
  • Shakespearean shorts. The dark lady of the sonnets
  • Macbeth skit
  • Cymbeline refinished
  • Shakes versus Shav
  • Appendix A: material cut from the play How he lied to her husband
  • Appendix B: material cut from the play Press cuttings
  • Explanatory notes.