Shaw, Bernard 1856-1950
Works: | 12,677 works in 42,193 publications in 36 languages and 453,073 library holdings |
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Genres: | Drama Musical films History Film adaptations Criticism, interpretation, etc Fiction Acting editions Romance films Historical drama Fables |
Subject Headings: | Dramatists, English Dramatists, Irish |
Roles: | Author, Editor, Author of screenplay, Other, Bibliographic antecedent, Dedicatee, Contributor, Author of introduction, Creator, Honoree, Signer, Author of afterword, colophon, etc., Interviewee, Illustrator, Narrator, Translator, Photographer, Inscriber, Recipient, Scenarist, Conceptor, Composer, Commentator, Speaker, Lyricist, Annotator, Correspondent, wpr, Performer, Instrumentalist, Host, Librettist, Collector, 070, Commentator for written text, Former owner, Dedicator |
Classifications: | PR5363, 822.912 |
- George Bernard Shaw by Harold Bloom( )
- A sourcebook on naturalist theatre by Christopher Innes( )
- Bernard Shaw : the ascent of the superman by Sally Peters( )
- My fair lady by George Cukor( Visual )
- Shaw's theater by Bernard F Dukore( )
- George Bernard Shaw by Gilbert Keith Chesterton( Book )
- G.B. Shaw : a collection of critical essays by R. J Kaufmann( Book )
- Bernard Shaw's remarkable religion : a faith that fits the facts by Stuart E Baker( )
- Pygmalion's wordplay : the postmodern Shaw by Jean Reynolds( )
- Shaw : the annual of Bernard Shaw studies( )
- Shaw and Joyce : the last word in stolentelling by Martha Fodaski Black( )
- Bernard Shaw and the BBC by L. W Conolly( )
- Bernard Shaw by Michael Holroyd( Book )
- Socialism and superior brains : the political thought of Bernard Shaw by Gareth Griffith( )
- Bernard Shaw and the French by Michel W Pharand( )
- Bernard Shaw: his life, work, and friends by St. John G Ervine( Book )
- Eight modern writers by J. I. M Stewart( Book )
- Who's afraid of Bernard Shaw? : some personalities in Shaw's plays by Stanley Weintraub( )
- Fathers and daughters in Shakespeare and Shaw by Lagretta Tallent Lenker( )
- George Bernard Shaw by Eldon C Hill( Book )


697 editions published between 1904 and 2022 in 15 languages and held by 6,695 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The scripts and commentaries on three of Shaw's most popular plays: "Saint Joan," "Major Barbara," and "Androcles and the Lion."
782 editions published between 1912 and 2021 in 25 languages and held by 5,159 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The story of a speech therapist who successfully converts an untutored flower girl into a darling of high society
228 editions published between 1887 and 2020 in 8 languages and held by 4,553 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Sidney Trefusis is a proselytizing socialist. Armed with irony and paradox, he is determined to overthrow a society riddled with class and sexual exploitation. Henrietta, his adoring wife, "loves" him: he must abandon her. Son of a millionaire, he gives up everything to pose as an "umble peasant". But when this unsocial socialist goes to work as a gardener in the vicinity of a girls' school he meets his match -- for Agatha Wylie is a new kind of woman, perfectly armed: and she doesn't love him. With the character of his clown-prophet Trefusis, George Bernard Shaw presented for the first time his view of what the relationship between the sexes should be
230 editions published between 1896 and 2019 in 5 languages and held by 4,085 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Though remembered primarily as a playwright and novelist, Irish writer George Bernard Shaw was an insatiably curious intellect whose interests encompassed a broad array of topics. This exegesis on Wagner's Ring cycle relates the opera series to ideas like capitalism and mythological archetypes
380 editions published between 1905 and 2020 in 9 languages and held by 4,022 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
When a Salvation Army officer learns that her father, a wealthy armaments manufacturer, has donated lots of money to her organization, she resigns in disgust but eventually sees the truth of her father's reasoning that social iniquity derives from poverty; it is only through accumulating wealth and power that people can help each other
394 editions published between 1894 and 2021 in 13 languages and held by 3,787 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Arms and the man starts with gunfire on a dark street in a small provincial town. The romantic and willful Raina is about to begin her true-life adventure by sheltering the handsome fugitive Bluntschli, enemy of her equally handsome fiancé Sergius. The men may all be heroes - or fools, since this is Shaw's comic view of Balkan chivalry, but the women are definitely more than their match
377 editions published between 1900 and 2016 in 10 languages and held by 3,195 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In Shaw's classic battle of the sexes, John Tanner flees when Ann Whitefield declares her intention to marry him
329 editions published between 1913 and 2010 in 4 languages and held by 3,155 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor who falls in love with his perfect female statue, it is also a barbed attack on the British class system and a statement of Shaw's feminist views. In Shaw's hands, the phoneticist Henry Higgins is the Pygmalion figure who believes he can transform Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower girl, into a duchess at ease in polite society. The one thing he overlooks is that his 'creation' has a mind of her own. This is the definitive text produced under the editorial supervision of Dan H. Laurence, with an illuminating introduction by Nicholas Grene, discussing the language and politics of the play. Also included in this volume is Shaw's preface, as well as his 'sequel' written for the first publication in 1916, to rebut public demand for a more conventionally romantic ending--Résumé de l'éditeur
232 editions published between 1912 and 2012 in 3 languages and held by 2,959 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Five linked plays that expound Shaw's philosophy of creative evolution in an extended dramatic parable that progresses through time from the Garden of Edesn to AD 31,920. Cf Encyclopaedia Britannica
274 editions published between 1800 and 2021 in 8 languages and held by 2,744 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The novel follows Cashel Byron, a world champion prizefighter, as he tries to woo wealthy aristocrat Lydia Carew without revealing his illegal profession. Lydia is portrayed as a moral and intelligent woman (although "priggish" according to Shaw) and is constantly contrasted with the "ruffian" Cashel. Lydia was advised by her recently deceased father to find a husband with a profession, as opposed to an idle gentleman or an art critic like her father. Cashel s childhood ends when he runs away from school to Australia and becomes apprentice to an ex-world champion boxer. When Cashel goes to England to secure his world title in that country he meets Lydia at her country manor. After much miscommunication and drawing room comedy, Cashel gives up boxing and succeeds in marrying Lydia. As in his postscript to "Pygmalion" (1912), in which he describes Eliza Doolittle's future life, Shaw chose to portray the Byron marriage in a realistic manner and narrates how Lydia comes to regard Cashel as "one of the children."
216 editions published between 1897 and 2007 in 3 languages and held by 2,510 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
117 editions published between 1911 and 2015 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,361 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Three works by the famous twentieth-century British playwright
24 editions published between 1851 and 1967 in English and held by 2,194 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
These plays are included in this volume: Caesar and Cleopatra, Mrs. Warren's Profession; Arms and the Man; Candida; saint Joan; Man and Superman and the Devil's Disiple
204 editions published between 1894 and 2020 in 9 languages and held by 2,193 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"One of Bernard Shaw's early plays of social protest, Mrs. Warren's Profession places the protagonist's decision to become a prostitute in the context of the appalling conditions for working class women in Victorian England. Faced with ill health, poverty, and marital servitude on the one hand, and opportunities for financial independence, dignity, and self-worth on the other, Kitty Warren follows her sister into a successful career in prostitution. Shaw's fierce social criticism in this play is driven not by conventional mrality, but by anger at the hypocrisy that allows society to condemn prostitution while condoning the discrimination against women that makes prostitution inevitable." "This Broadview edition includes a comprehensive historical and critical introduction; extracts from Shaw's prefaces to the play; Shaw's expurgations of the text; early reviews of the play in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain; and contemporary contextual documents on prostitution, incest, censorship, women's education, and the "New Woman.""--Jacket
315 editions published between 1895 and 2021 in 13 languages and held by 2,112 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
National Theatre, Cornelia Otis Skinner in "Candida," by George Bernard Shaw, with Dorothy Sands, Onslow Stevens, A.P. Kaye, John Cromwell, staged by George Somnes, settings by Donald Oenslager, costumes by Helene Pons
111 editions published between 1900 and 2014 in 7 languages and held by 2,066 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"First printing, June, 1928." "Appendix, instead of a bibliography": pages 465-470
207 editions published between 1898 and 2020 in 12 languages and held by 1,959 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
When Ceasar names Cleopatra as the Queen of the Nile, he believes he is securing the future of his country's relations with Egypt, but when he is betrayed by the young soldier Mark Antony, he finds his life in jeopardy
16 editions published between 1962 and 1963 in English and held by 1,832 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Vol. 1: Pygmalion - Major Barbara - Heartbreak House - Captain Brasshound's Conversion - Man of destiny - Buoyant Billions
137 editions published between 1909 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 1,810 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
3 skuespil, alle med forfatterens forord
91 editions published between 1916 and 2014 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,808 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Into the eccentric household of Captain Shotover and his daughter Hesione comes Ellie Dunn, a young woman ready to marry for money rather than love. Hesione protests vigorously, but her rakish husband, Hector, snobbish sister, Ariadne, and the wealthy industrialist Boss Mangan have also joined the house-party and opinion becomes divided on the matter. Should financial concerns take priority over romantic ones, or should we hold on to our ideals, regardless of the consequences?"--Jacket


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- Laurence, Dan H. Other Adapter Publishing director Illuminator Author Editor Signer Redactor Translator
- Weintraub, Stanley 1929-2019 Other Author of introduction Inscriber Author Editor Compiler
- Caesar, Julius
- Cleopatra Queen of Egypt -30 B.C.
- Ibsen, Henrik 1828-1906 Author
- Joan of Arc, Saint 1412-1431
- Dukore, Bernard F. 1931- Other Writer of accompanying material Author Editor
- Burgoyne, John 1722-1792
- Holroyd, Michael Other Author of introduction Author Editor Creator
- Joyce, James 1882-1941
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