George Bernard Shaw
his plays
BY
HENRY L. MENCKEN
BOSTON AND LONDON
JOHN W. LUCE & CO.
1905
Copyright, 1905, by
John W. Luce & Company
Boston, Mass., U. S. A.
The Plimpton Press Norwood Mass. U.S.A.
CONTENTS
- Preface.
- By Way of Introduction.
- The Shaw Plays:
- Mrs. Warren’s Profession.
- Arms and the Man.
- The Devil’s Disciple.
- Widowers’ Houses.
- The Philanderer.
- Captain Brassbound’s Conversion.
- Cæsar and Cleopatra.
- A Man of Destiny.
- The Admirable Bashville.
- Candida.
- How He Lied to Her Husband.
- You Never Can Tell.
- Man and Superman.
- John Bull’s Other Island.
- Major Barbara.
- The Novels and Other Writings:
- The Irrational Knot, Love Among the Artists, Cashel Byron’s Profession, An Unsocial Socialist, On Going to Church, The Quintessence of Ibsenism, etc.
- Biographical and Statistical.
- Shakespeare and Shaw.
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PREFACE
This is a little handbook for the reading tables of Americansinterested enough in the drama of the day to havesome curiosity regarding the plays of George BernardShaw, but too busy to give them careful personal studyor to read the vast mass of reviews, magazine articles,letters to the editor, newspaper paragraphs and reportsof debates that deal with them. Every habitual writernow before the public, from William Archer and Ja