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The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw : collected plays with their prefaces

Print Book, English, 1970-74
Bodley Head, London, 1970-74
English drama
7 volumes 20 cm
9780370013299, 9780370013619, 9780370013756, 9780370013909, 9780370013947, 9780370102252, 9780370106670, 0370013298, 0370013611, 0370013751, 0370013905, 0370013948, 0370102258, 0370106679
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v. 1. Plays unpleasant: Widowers' houses ; The philanderer ; Mrs. Warren's profession
Plays pleasant: Arms and the man ; Candida, the man of destiny ; You never can tell
v.2. Three plays for Puritans: The devil's disciple ; Caesar and Cleopatra ; Captain Brassbound's conversion ; The admirable Bashville ; Man and superman ; John Bull's other island ; How he lied to her husband
v.3. Major Barbara ; Passion, poison and petrification ; The doctor's dilemma ; Getting married ; The shewing-up of Blanco Posnet ; The glimpse of reality ; Press cuttings ; The fascinating foundling
v. 4. Misalliance ; The dark lady of the sonnets ; Fanny's first play: an easy play for a little theatre ; Androcles and the lion: a fable play ; Pygmalion: a romance in five acts ; Overruled ; The music-cure: a piece of utter nonsense ; Great Catherine (whom glory still adores) ; The Inca of Perusalem: an almost historical comedietta ; O'Flaherty, V.C.: a recruiting pamphlet
v.5. Heartbreak house ; Augustus does his bit ; Annajanska ; Back to Methuselah ; Jitta's atonement
v.6. Saint Joan ; The apple cart ; Too true to be good ; Village wooing ; On the rocks ; The simpleton of the unexpected isles ; The millionairess ; The six of Calais
v.7. Geneva ; Cymbeline refinished ; "In good King Charles's golden days" ; Buoyant billions ; Farfetched fables ; Shakes versus Shav ; Uncontrolled dramatic writings: Passion play ; Un petit drame ; The cassone ; The gadfly ; The inauguration speech ; Suggested Act III ending for Barker's The Madras house ; Beauty's duty ; Macbeth skit ; Glastonbury skit ; Skit for the Tiptaft revue ; The war indeminities ; The Yahoos ; The garden of Hesperides ; The girl with the golden voice ; Arthur and the acetone ; Sequence for The king's people ; A new ending for Clemence Dane's Cousin Muriel ; Sequence for a pageant of plays and players ; Why she would not ; Index
American ed. published in 1970-1974 under title: Collected plays with their prefaces