The Collected Works of Bernard Shaw E-Book

George Bernard Shaw

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• Sprache: Englisch
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This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works - the Œuvre - of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - 8436 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • Pygmalion • Mrs. Warren's Profession • Arms and the Man • Major Barbara • Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy • Caesar and Cleopatra • Heartbreak House • You Never Can Tell • On the Prospects of Christianity • Candida • Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch • Misalliance • The Doctor's Dilemma • How He Lied to Her Husband • The Devil's Disciple • Getting Married • The Dark Lady of the Sonnets • The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring • Treatise on Parents and Children • The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors • John Bull's Other Island • Androcles and the Lion • Maxims for Revolutionists • Fanny's First Play • The Philanderer • The Man of Destiny • An Unsocial Socialist • Augustus Does His Bit: A True-to-Life Farce • The Inca of Perusalem: An Almost Historical Comedietta • Preface to Major Barbara: First Aid to Critics • Overruled • Confessions of a CaricaturistOliver Herford • The Irrational Knot • Great Catherine (Whom Glory Still Adores) • Press Cuttings • The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet • Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion • Cashel Byron's Profession • Captain Brassbound's Conversion • Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress • The Admirable Bashville; Or, Constancy Unrewarded • The Impossibilities of Anarchism • O'Flaherty V.C.: A Recruiting Pamphlet • The Miraculous Revenge •.etc.

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Table of Contents

A TREATISE ON PARENTS AND CHILDREN

THE PERFECT WAGNERITE A COMMENTARY ON THE NIBLUNG'S RING

PREFACE TO ANDROCLES AND THE LION: ON THE PROSPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY

THE IRRATIONAL KNOT

BY BERNARD SHAW BEING

THE SECOND NOVEL OF HIS NONAGE

PREFACE

TO THE AMERICAN EDITION OF 1905

BOOK I

THE IRRATIONAL KNOT

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

BOOK II

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

CHAPTER XI

BOOK III

CHAPTER XII

CHAPTER XIII

CHAPTER XIV

THE WATERS OF MARAH,

BY ELINOR MCQUINCH.

CHAPTER XV

CHAPTER XVI

CHAPTER XVII

BOOK IV

CHAPTER XVIII

"MARIAN."

CHAPTER XIX

CHAPTER XX

CHAPTER XXI

THE IMPOSSIBILITIES OF ANARCHISM.

CASHEL BYRON'S PROFESSION

PREFACE TO MAJOR BARBARA: FIRST AID TO CRITICS

AN UNSOCIAL SOCIALIST

MAN AND SUPERMAN

A COMEDY AND A PHILOSOPHY By Bernard Shaw

Contents

EPISTLE DEDICATORY TO ARTHUR BINGHAM WALKLEY

My dear Walkley:

ACT I

ACT II

ACT III

ACT IV

YOU NEVER CAN TELL

ACT I

ACT II

ACT III

ACT IV

PRESS CUTTINGS

O'FLAHERTY V.C.: A RECRUITING PAMPHLET

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

ACT IACT IIACT IIIACT IV

ACT I

ACT II

ACT III

ACT IV

THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA

ACT I

ACT II

ACT III

ACT IV

ACT V

CAPTAIN BRASSBOUND'S CONVERSION

ACT I

ACT II

ACT III

NOTES TO CAPTAIN BRASSBOUND'S CONVERSION

SOURCES OF THE PLAY

FANNY'S FIRST PLAY

Contents

PREFACE TO FANNY'S FIRST PLAY

FANNY'S FIRST PLAY

INDUCTION

THE PLAY

ACT I

ACT II

ACT III

EPILOGUE

HEARTBREAK HOUSE

A FANTASIA IN THE RUSSIAN MANNER ON ENGLISH THEMES

By Bernard Shaw

1913-1916

Contents

HEARTBREAK HOUSE AND HORSEBACK HALL

HEARTBREAK HOUSE

ACT I

ACT II

ACT III

THE INCA OF PERUSALEM: AN ALMOST HISTORICAL COMEDIETTA

By George Bernard Shaw

PROLOGUE

THE PLAY

GETTING MARRIED

Preface To "Getting Married"

1908

PREFACE TO GETTING MARRIED

THE REVOLT AGAINST MARRIAGE

MARRIAGE NEVERTHELESS INEVITABLE

WHAT DOES THE WORD MARRIAGE MEAN

SURVIVALS OF SEX SLAVERY

A NEW ATTACK ON MARRIAGE

A FORGOTTEN CONFERENCE OF MARRIED MEN

HEARTH AND HOME

TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING

LARGE AND SMALL FAMILIES

THE GOSPEL OF LAODICEA

FOR BETTER FOR WORSE

WANTED: AN IMMORAL STATESMAN

THE LIMITS OF DEMOCRACY

THE SCIENCE AND ART OF POLITICS

WHY STATESMEN SHIRK THE MARRIAGE QUESTION

THE QUESTION OF POPULATION

THE RIGHT TO MOTHERHOOD

MONOGAMY, POLYGYNY AND POLYANDRY

THE MALE REVOLT AGAINST POLYGYNY

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ORIENTAL AND OCCIDENTAL POLYGYNY

THE OLD MAID'S RIGHT TO MOTHERHOOD

IBSEN'S CHAIN STITCH

REMOTENESS OF THE FACTS FROM THE IDEAL

DIFFICULTY OF OBTAINING EVIDENCE

MARRIAGE AS A MAGIC SPELL

THE IMPERSONALITY OF SEX

THE ECONOMIC SLAVERY OF WOMEN

UNPOPULARITY OF IMPERSONAL VIEWS

IMPERSONALITY IS NOT PROMISCUITY

DOMESTIC CHANGE OF AIR

HOME MANNERS ARE BAD MANNERS

SPURIOUS "NATURAL" AFFECTION

CARRYING THE WAR INTO THE ENEMY'S COUNTRY

SHELLEY AND QUEEN VICTORIA

A PROBABLE EFFECT OF GIVING WOMEN THE VOTE

THE PERSONAL SENTIMENTAL BASIS OF MONOGAMY

DIVORCE

IMPORTANCE OF SENTIMENTAL GRIEVANCE

DIVORCE WITHOUT ASKING WHY

ECONOMIC SLAVERY AGAIN THE ROOT DIFFICULTY

LABOR EXCHANGES AND THE WHITE SLAVERY

CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE

DIVORCE A SACRAMENTAL DUTY

OTHELLO AND DESDEMONA

WHAT IS TO BECOME OF THE CHILDREN?

THE COST OF DIVORCE

CONCLUSIONS

GETTING MARRIED

GREAT CATHERINE (WHOM GLORY STILL ADORES)

Contents

THE AUTHOR'S APOLOGY FOR GREAT CATHERINE

GREAT CATHERINE

THE FIRST SCENE

THE SECOND SCENE

THE THIRD SCENE

THE FOURTH SCENE

THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS

THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS

1910

PREFACE TO THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS

How the Play came to be Written

Thomas Tyler

Frank Harris

Harris "durch Mitleid wissend"

"Sidney's Sister: Pembroke's Mother"

Shakespear's Social Standing

This Side Idolatry

Shakespear's Pessimism

Gaiety of Genius

Jupiter and Semele

The Idol of the Bardolaters

Shakespear's alleged Sycophancy and Perversion

Shakespear and Democracy

Shakespear and the British Public

THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS

THE SHEWING-UP OF BLANCO POSNET

PREFACE

THE CENSORSHIP

A READABLE BLUEBOOK

HOW NOT TO DO IT

THE STORY OF THE JOINT SELECT COMMITTEE

WHY THE MANAGERS LOVE THE CENSORSHIP

A TWO GUINEA INSURANCE POLICY

WHY THE GOVERNMENT INTERFERED

THE PEERS ON THE JOINT SELECT COMMITTEE

THE COMMITTEE'S ATTITUDE TOWARD THE THEATRE

A BAD BEGINNING

A COMIC INTERLUDE

AN ANTI-SHAVIAN PANIC

A RARE AND CURIOUS FIRST EDITION

THE TIMES TO THE RESCUE

THE COUNCIL OF TEN

THE SENTENCE

THE EXECUTION

THE REJECTED STATEMENT

PART I

THE WITNESS'S QUALIFICATIONS

THE DEFINITION OF IMMORALITY

WHAT TOLERATION MEANS

THE CASE FOR TOLERATION

THE LIMITS TO TOLERATION

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LAW AND CENSORSHIP

WHY THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN?

THE DIPLOMATIC OBJECTION TO THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN

THE OBJECTION OF COURT ETIQUET

WHY NOT AN ENLIGHTENED CENSORSHIP?

THE WEAKNESS OF THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S DEPARTMENT

AN ENLIGHTENED CENSORSHIP STILL WORSE THAN THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S

THE PRACTICAL IMPOSSIBILITIES OF CENSORSHIP

THE ARBITRATION PROPOSAL

END OF THE FIRST PART OF THE REJECTED STATEMENT.

THE REJECTED STATEMENT: PART TWO

THE LICENSING OF THEATRES

THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN LICENSING AND CENSORSHIP

PROSTITUTION AND DRINK IN THEATRES

WHY THE MANAGERS DREAD LOCAL CONTROL

DESIRABLE LIMITATIONS OF LOCAL CONTROL

SUMMARY

PREFACE RESUMED

MR. GEORGE ALEXANDER'S PROTEST

ELIZA AND HER BATH

A KING'S PROCTOR

COUNSEL'S OPINION

WANTED: A NEW MAGNA CHARTA

PROPOSED: A NEW STAR CHAMBER

POSSIBILITIES OF THE PROPOSAL

STAR CHAMBER SENTIMENTALITY

ANYTHING FOR A QUIET LIFE

SHALL THE EXAMINER OF PLAYS STARVE?

LORD GORELL'S AWAKENING

JUDGES: THEIR PROFESSIONAL LIMITATIONS

CONCLUSION

AYOT ST. LAWRENCE, 14TH JULY 1910.

THE SHEWING-UP OF BLANCO POSNET

THE MAN OF DESTINY

BERNARD SHAW

Three Plays by Brieux

Contents

Preface By Bernard Shaw.

From Molière to Brieux.

How the XIX century found itself out.

Jack the Ripper.

Rise of the Scientific Spirit.

Zolaism as a Superstition.

The Passing of the Tragic Catastrophe and the Happy Ending.

The Difference between Brieux and Molière or Shakespear.

Brieux and the Boulevard.

The Pedantry of Paris.

How to Write a Popular Play.

Why the Critics are always Wrong.

The Interpreter of Life.

How the Great Dramatists torture the Public.

Brieux’s Conquest of London.

Parisian Stupidity.

Brieux and the English Theatre.

The Censorship in France and England.

Brieux and the English Censorship.

Taboo.

The Attitude of the People to the Literary Arts.

The Dread of the Original Thinker.

The Justification of Conventionality.

Why Les Hannetons was Censored.

Misadventure of a Frenchman in Westminster Abbey.

Marriage and Malthus.

Brieux and the Respectable Married Man.

Brieux shews the Other Side.

The Most Unmentionable of All Subjects.

Why the Unmentionable Must be Mentioned on the Stage.

Brieux and Voltaire.

As Good Fish in the Sea.

Maternity

ACT I

ACT II

ACT III

The Three Daughters of M. Dupont

ACT I

ACT II

ACT III

ACT IV

Damaged Goods

ACT I

ACT II

ACT III

Maternity

ACT I

ACT II

ACT III

PYGMALION

ACT 1ACT 2ACT 3ACT 4ACT 5

PREFACE TO PYGMALION.

A Professor of Phonetics.

ACT I

ACT II

ACT III

ACT IV

ACT V

MAJOR BARBARA

BERNARD SHAW

ACT I

ACT II

ACT III

The Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion

PREFACE TO THE REVOLUTIONIST'S HANDBOOK

FOREWORD

AND YET

JOHN TANNER

I

ON GOOD BREEDING

II

PROPERTY AND MARRIAGE

III

THE PERFECTIONIST EXPERIMENT AT ONEIDA CREEK

IV

MAN'S OBJECTION TO HIS OWN IMPROVEMENT

V

THE POLITICAL NEED FOR THE SUPERMAN

VI

PRUDERY EXPLAINED

VII

PROGRESS AN ILLUSION

VIII

THE CONCEIT OF CIVILIZATION

IX

THE VERDICT OF HISTORY

X

THE METHOD

The Miraculous Revenge

Bernard Shaw

HALDEMAN-JULIUS COMPANY GIRARD, KANSAS

THE MIRACULOUS REVENGE

THE MIRACULOUS REVENGE

OVERRULED

BERNARD SHAW

1912

PREFACE TO OVERRULED.

THE ALLEVIATIONS OF MONOGAMY.

INACCESSIBILITY OF THE FACTS.

THE CONVENTION OF JEALOUSY

THE MISSING DATA OF A SCIENTIFIC NATURAL HISTORY OF MARRIAGE.

ARTIFICIAL RETRIBUTION.

THE FAVORITE SUBJECT OF FARCICAL COMEDY.

THE PSEUDO SEX PLAY.

ART AND MORALITY.

THE LIMITS OF STAGE PRESENTATION.

PRUDERIES OF THE FRENCH STAGE.

OUR DISILLUSIVE SCENERY.

HOLDING THE MIRROR UP TO NATURE.

FARCICAL COMEDY SHIRKING ITS SUBJECT.

OVERRULED.

MISALLIANCE

Maxims for Revolutionists

THE GOLDEN RULE

IDOLATRY

ROYALTY

DEMOCRACY

IMPERIALISM

LIBERTY AND EQUALITY

EDUCATION

MARRIAGE

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

TITLES

HONOR

PROPERTY

SERVANTS

HOW TO BEAT CHILDREN

RELIGION

VIRTUES AND VICES

FAIRPLAY

GREATNESS

BEAUTY AND HAPPINESS, ART AND RICHES

THE PERFECT GENTLEMAN

MODERATION

THE UNCONSCIOUS SELF

REASON

DECENCY

EXPERIENCE

TIME'S REVENGES

GOOD INTENTIONS

NATURAL RIGHTS

FAUTE DE MIEUX

CHARITY

FAME

DISCIPLINE

WOMEN IN THE HOME

CIVILIZATION

GAMBLING

THE SOCIAL QUESTION

STRAY SAYINGS

SELF-SACRIFICE

THE PHILANDERER

By George Bernard Shaw

ACT I

END OF ACT I.

ACT II

END OF ACT II.

ACT III

END OF ACT III.

ACT IV

MRS WARREN'S PROFESSION

With The Author's Apology (1902)

Contents

THE AUTHOR'S APOLOGY

MRS WARREN'S PROFESSION

ACT I

ACT II

ACT III

ACT IV

THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE

Bernard Shaw

ACT IACT IIACT III

ACT I

ACT II

ACT III

CURTAIN.

NOTES TO THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE

BURGOYNE

PROPOSITION.

ANSWER.

PROPOSITION.

ANSWER.

PROPOSITION.

ANSWER.

PROPOSITION.

ANSWER.

PROPOSITION.

ANSWER.

PROPOSITION.

ANSWER.

BRUDENELL

THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA: PREFACE ON DOCTORS

1909

DOUBTFUL CHARACTER BORNE BY THE MEDICAL PROFESSION

DOCTOR'S CONSCIENCES

THE PECULIAR PEOPLE

RECOIL OF THE DOGMA OF MEDICAL INFALLIBILITY ON THE DOCTOR

WHY DOCTORS DO NOT DIFFER

THE CRAZE FOR OPERATIONS

CREDULITY AND CHLOROFORM

MEDICAL POVERTY

THE SUCCESSFUL DOCTOR

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SELF-RESPECT IN SURGEONS

ARE DOCTORS MEN OF SCIENCE?

BACTERIOLOGY AS A SUPERSTITION

ECONOMIC DIFFICULTIES OF IMMUNIZATION

THE PERILS OF INOCULATION

DOCTORS AND VIVISECTION

THE PRIMITIVE SAVAGE MOTIVE

THE HIGHER MOTIVE. THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE.

THE FLAW IN THE ARGUMENT

LIMITATIONS OF THE RIGHT TO KNOWLEDGE

A FALSE ALTERNATIVE

OUR OWN CRUELTIES

THE SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION OF CRUELTY

ROUTINE

THE OLD LINE BETWEEN MAN AND BEAST

VIVISECTING THE HUMAN SUBJECT

"THE LIE IS A EUROPEAN POWER"

AN ARGUMENT WHICH WOULD DEFEND ANY CRIME

THOU ART THE MAN

WHAT THE PUBLIC WANTS AND WILL NOT GET

THE VACCINATION CRAZE

STATISTICAL ILLUSIONS

THE SURPRISES OF ATTENTION AND NEGLECT

STEALING CREDIT FROM CIVILIZATION

BIOMETRIKA

PATIENT-MADE THERAPEUTICS

THE REFORMS ALSO COME FROM THE LAITY

FASHIONS AND EPIDEMICS

THE DOCTOR'S VIRTUES

THE DOCTOR'S HARDSHIPS

THE PUBLIC DOCTOR

What then is to be done?

MEDICAL ORGANIZATION

THE SOCIAL SOLUTION OF THE MEDICAL PROBLEM

THE FUTURE OF PRIVATE PRACTICE

THE TECHNICAL PROBLEM

THE LATEST THEORIES

HOW HE LIED TO HER HUSBAND

By George Bernard Shaw

PREFACE

HOW HE LIED TO HER HUSBAND

CANDIDA

BERNARD SHAW

1898

ACT IACT IIACT III

ACT I

ACT II

ACT III

CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA

By George Bernard Shaw

Contents

ACT I

ACT II

ACT III

ACT IV

ACT V

NOTES TO CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA

CLEOPATRA'S CURE FOR BALDNESS

BACK TO METHUSELAH

BERNARD SHAW

PREFACE

THE DAWN OF DARWINISM

THE ADVENT OF THE NEO-DARWINIANS

POLITICAL INADEQUACY OF THE HUMAN ANIMAL

COWARDICE OF THE IRRELIGIOUS

IS THERE ANY HOPE IN EDUCATION?

HOMEOPATHIC EDUCATION

THE DIABOLICAL EFFICIENCY OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION

FLIMSINESS OF CIVILIZATION

CREATIVE EVOLUTION

VOLUNTARY LONGEVITY

THE EARLY EVOLUTIONISTS

THE ADVENT OF THE NEO-LAMARCKIANS

HOW ACQUIREMENTS ARE INHERITED

THE MIRACLE OF CONDENSED RECAPITULATION

HEREDITY AN OLD STORY

DISCOVERY ANTICIPATED BY DIVINATION

CORRECTED DATES FOR THE DISCOVERY OF EVOLUTION

DEFYING THE LIGHTNING: A FRUSTRATED EXPERIMENT

IN QUEST OF THE FIRST CAUSE

PALEY'S WATCH

THE IRRESISTIBLE CRY OF ORDER, ORDER!

THE MOMENT AND THE MAN

THE BRINK OF THE BOTTOMLESS PIT

WHY DARWIN CONVERTED THE CROWD

HOW WE RUSHED DOWN A STEEP PLACE

DARWINISM NOT FINALLY REFUTABLE

THREE BLIND MICE

THE GREATEST OF THESE IS SELF-CONTROL

A SAMPLE OF LAMARCKO-SHAVIAN INVECTIVE

THE HUMANITARIANS AND THE PROBLEM OF EVIL

HOW ONE TOUCH OF DARWIN MAKES THE WHOLE WORLD KIN

WHY DARWIN PLEASED THE SOCIALISTS

DARWIN AND KARL MARX

WHY DARWIN PLEASED THE PROFITEERS ALSO

THE POETRY AND PURITY OF MATERIALISM

THE VICEROYS OF THE KING OF KINGS

POLITICAL OPPORTUNISM IN EXCELSIS

THE BETRAYAL OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION

CIRCUMSTANTIAL SELECTION IN FINANCE

THE HOMEOPATHIC REACTION AGAINST DARWINISM

RELIGION AND ROMANCE

THE DANGER OF REACTION

A TOUCHSTONE FOR DOGMA

WHAT TO DO WITH THE LEGENDS

A LESSON FROM SCIENCE TO THE CHURCHES

THE RELIGIOUS ART OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

THE ARTIST-PROPHETS

EVOLUTION IN THE THEATRE

MY OWN PART IN THE MATTER

BACK TO METHUSELAH.

PART I

ACT I

ACT II

PART II

PART III

PART IV

ACT I

ACT II

ACT III

PART V.

AUGUSTUS DOES HIS BIT

A TRUE-TO-LIFE FARCE

By George Bernard Shaw

AUGUSTUS DOES HIS BIT

Arms and the Man

by George Bernard Shaw

INTRODUCTION

ARMS AND THE MAN

ACT I

ACT II

ACT III

ANNAJANSKA, THE BOLSHEVIK EMPRESS

ANDROCLES AND THE LION

BERNARD SHAW

1912

ACT IACT II

PROLOGUE

ACT I

ACT II

THE ADMIRABLE BASHVILLE

OR, CONSTANCY UNREWARDED

NEW YORK BRENTANO'S 1913

WORKS OF

BERNARD SHAW

BRENTANO'S

THE ADMIRABLE BASHVILLE

PREFACE

The Admirable Bashville; or, Constancy Unrewarded

NOTE ON MODERN PRIZEFIGHTING

First Edition

A TREATISE ON PARENTS AND CHILDREN

PARENTS AND CHILDREN

Trailing Clouds of Glory

Childhood is a stage in the process of that continual remanufacture of the Life Stuff by which the human race is perpetuated. The Life Force either will not or cannot achieve immortality except in very low organisms: indeed it is by no means ascertained that even the amoeba is immortal. Human beings visibly wear out, though they last longer than their friends the dogs. Turtles, parrots, and elephants are believed to be capable of outliving the memory of the oldest human inhabitant. But the fact that new ones are born conclusively proves that they are not immortal. Do away with death and you do away with the need for birth: in fact if you went on breeding, you would finally have to kill old people to make room for young ones.