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INTRODUCTION: G.B.S. IN THE 1890s 1. One of the pieces in Essays in Fabian Socialism, 'The Common Sense of Municipal Trading7, was published in 1904; all the others belong to the 1890s. 2. Saturday Review (London), 26 September 1896. Our Theatres in the Nineties, II, pp. 195-6. 3. Holbrook Jackson, The Eighteen Nineties (Harmondsworth: Pelican (Penguin), 1939, repr. 1950), p. 194. 4. Bernard Shaw: Theatrics, ed. Dan H. Laurence (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995), p. 42. 5. Star (London), 10 December 1892; an unsigned notice but almost certainly by Walkley. 6. Appendix I: 'The Author to the Dramatic Critics7, Widowers' Houses (London: Henry & Co., 1893), p. 102 passim. 7. Athenaeum (London), 28 April 1894. 8. World (London), 25 April 1894. 9. Speaker (London), 28 April 1894. 10. 5 November 1896. Collected Letters, 1874-1897, ed. Dan H. Laurence (London: Reinhardt, 1965), p. 695. 11. 8 November 1896. Ibid., p. 698. 12. Critic (New York), July-August 1898. 13. , 3 October 1897. 14. The New York Times Illustrated Magazine, 10 October 1897. 15. 27 January 1900. Bernard Shaw. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, ed. Dan H. Laurence (London: Reinhardt, 1972), p. 143.

CHAPTER 1 JANUARY-MAY 1901: A NATURAL-BORN MOUNTEBANK 1. (London), 1 January 1901. 2. Kipling's 'Recessional7 marked 1897, the year of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee; his 'The Young Queen' 1900, the year in which Australia became a Federation. 3. The Times (London), 23 January 1901. Austen's poem continues:

Can it be That She who scarce but yesterday upheld The Dome of Empire, so the twain seemed one, Whose goodness shone and radiated round The circle of her still expanding Rule Whose Sceptre was self-sacrifice, whose Throne Only a loftier height from which to scan The purpose of her People, their desires Thoughts, hopes, fears, needs, joys, sorrows, sadnesses ...

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4. To the editor of the Morning Leader, undated, probably 27 January 1901. Parke's reply 28 January 1901. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 216. 5. Humane Review, I (London), January 1901, pp. 298-315. 6. It has, however, been resuscitated after a lapse of ninety years and appeared in Shaw 10: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies, eds Stanley Weintraub and Fred D. Crawford (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1989). 7. Three Plays for Puritans was published by Grant Richards in London on 15 January 1901. The American edition (New York and : H. S. Stone) came out in February. 8. Preface to Three Plays for Puritans, pp. xxi-xxiv. 9. Academy (London), 9 February 1901. 10. Preface to Three Plays for Puritans, pp. xxxv-xxxvi. 11. (London), 7 February 1901. 12. Ibid., 2 April 1901. 13. Candid Friend (London), 11 and 18 May 1901. 14. Shaw Gives Himself Away (London: Gregynog, 1939). 15. Sixteen Self Sketches (London: Constable, 1949). 16. The bibliographies of 1899 and 1900, though not without their quota of entries, indicate a falling off of productivity, particularly regarding the publication of articles and larger works of general interest. 17. A portion of Archer's remarkable letter to Shaw is in Collected Letters, 1898-1910, pp. 356-7. 18. 'Epistle Dedicatory to Arthur Bingham Walkley' (Preface to ), p.xxxi. 19. B. Ifor Evans, A Short History of English Literature (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1961). p. 126.

CHAPTER 2 1901-1902: PATHOLOGICAL EFFUSIONS 1. 4 August 1899. and Bernard Shaw. A Correspondence, ed. Christopher St John (London: Reinhardt & Evans, 1949), p. 309. 2. 'The Sanity of Art', Major Critical Essays, p. 284. 3. 2 July 1894. Collected Letters, 1874-1897, p. 448. 4. 14 September 1901. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 237. 5. In his letter to the British Medical Journal (London), 26 October 1901. 6. This letter is the only one of the controversy Shaw saw fit to include, slightly cut, in Doctor's Delusions, Crude Criminology, and Sham Education. 7. 22 February 1906. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 607. 8. Ibid., p. 606. 9. 11 September 1905. Ibid., p. 558.

CHAPTER 3 1903-1904: FABIAN SHAW 1. Edward R. Pease, The History of the (London: Cass, 1918, 3rd edn 1963), p. 284. 2. The Diary of Beatrice Webb, II, 1892-1905, 'All the Good Things of Life', 278 Notes

eds Norman and Jeanne MacKenzie (London: Virago and London School of Economics, 1983), p. 267. 3. Quoted by Steve Jones, 'No Further Room for Improvement', Spectator (London), 12 June 1993. 4. Patricia Pugh, Educate, Agitate, Organise: One Hundred Years of Fabian Socialism (London: Methuen, 1984; repr. Methuen University Paperback, 1987), p. 2. 5. Norman and Jeanne MacKenzie, The Fabians (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1977), p. 28. 6. John Palmer, 'Mr Bernard Shaw: An Epitaph', Fortnightly Review (London), XCVII, N.S., Jan.-Jun. 1915. 7. Pease, The History of the Fabian Society, p. 39. 8. 'Does Modern Education Ennoble?', Great Thoughts (London), 7 October 1905. Doctor's Delusions, Crude Criminology and Sham Education, p. 339. 9. 'An Educational Confession', The Schoolmistress (London), 17 November 1927. Doctor's Delusions, Crude Criminology and Sham Education, p. 355. 10. 'The Educated Working Man', New Standards (London), October 1923. Doctor's Delusions, Crude Criminology and Sham Education, pp. 334-5. 11. 'The Educated Working Man', p. 337. 12. 'Does Modern Education Ennoble?' Doctor's Delusions, Crude Criminology and Sham Education, p. 341. 13. Ibid. 14. 'Education and Electioneering', Daily Mail (London), 27 February 1904. Doctor's Delusions, Crude Criminology and Sham Education, p. 368. 15. 7 October 1903. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 375. 16. 'The Fabian Society: What it has Done and How it has Done it', Essays in Fabian Socialism, p. 131. 17. See Pease, The History of the Fabian Society, pp. 81-2. 18. 30 June 1904. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, pp. 425-6. 19. Margaret Cole, The Story of Fabian Socialism (London: , 1961), p. 95. 20. Clarion (London), 2 February 1906. 21. The Diary of Beatrice Webb, II, p. 287. 22. Dan H. Laurence, Bernard Shaw: A Bibliography, I (Oxford University Press, 1983), pp. 62-3. 23. Pease, The History of the Fabian Society, p. 160. 24. Norman and Jeanne Mackenzie, The Fabians, p. 302. 25. Fabianism and the Fiscal Question (London: Fabian Society, February 1904), p. 6. 26. Ibid., p. 22. 27. Ibid., p. 25. 28. See C. E. Hill, 'Shaw and Local Government', Shaw and Politics, ed. T. F. Evans. Shaw 11: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991), pp. 132-4. 29. 25 February 1904. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 408. 30. 12 March 1904. Notes 279

31. 3 March 1904. The Diary of Beatrice Webb, II, pp. 315-16. 32. St James's Gazette (London), 5 March 1904. 33. 7 March 1904. The Diary of Beatrice Webb, II, p. 318. 34. New Age (London), 4 April 1908. 35. Marion Barton, in a letter to The New York Times, 19 April 1933.

CHAPTER 4 1903-1905: INTERNATIONAL SHAW 1. 12 January 1903. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, pp. 300-1. Archer's article, 'The Two Georges' (Morning Leader of 10 January 1903) was in response to George Brandes' 'Bernard Shaw's Teater' (Politikken (Copenhagen) of 29 December 1902). 2. 7 November 1902. Ibid., p. 285. 3. Assigned to 17 February 1903. Ibid., pp. 310-11. 4. 3 May 1903. Ibid., pp. 320-2. 5. Ibid., p. 332. 6. Ibid., p. 335. 7. F. A. Mumby and Ian Norrie, Publishing and Booksellers (London: Cape, 1930, 5th edn 1974), p. 345. 8. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 332. 9. 19 June 1903. Ibid., pp. 332-4. 10. 13 July 1903. Ibid., p. 337. 11. Daily News (London), 22 August 1903. 12. Saturday Review (London), 12 September 1903. 13. 16 January 1903. The Diary of Beatrice Webb, II, p. 267. 14. 15 September 1903. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, pp. 372-3. 15. 21 September 1903. Add. Ms. 50529, Bernard Shaw Papers, British Library. 16. Add. Ms 50542, Bernard Shaw Papers, British Library. 17. Undated. Aylmer Maude, The Life of Tolstoy: Later Years (London: Oxford University Press, 1920), pp. 461-2. 18. Add. Ms. 50528, Bernard Shaw Papers, British Library. 19. 2 September 1903. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 357. 20. , Chronicle of a Life, trans. Eithne Wilkens and Ernst Kaiser (London: Heinemann, 1953), pp. 95-6. 21. Ibid., p. 96. 22. Preface to Jitta's Atonement, Translations and Tomfooleries, pp. 3-4. 23. 10 December 1902. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 293. 24. 26 December 1902. Ibid., p. 297. 25. 15 January 1903. Ibid., p. 304. 26. 18 December 1902. Ibid., p. 294. 27. 11 August 1906. Ibid., p. 640. 28. 20 January 1908. Ibid., p. 753. 29. 4 April 1906. Ibid., p. 615. 30. 28 July 1908. Bernard Shaw: Theatrics, p. 89. 31. This figure comes from Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 382; Henderson gives $350. : Man of the Century (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1956), p. 476. Henderson's figure may be a trifle low, even for Daly. 280 Notes

32. Henderson, George Bernard Shaw: Man of the Century, p. 476. 33. 4 January 1904. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 395. 34. The New York Times, 9 December 1903. 35. Both Laurence and Henderson give 5 January as the opening date, but newspaper reviews make it clear that the opening was on Monday, 9 January 1905. 36. The New York Times, 10 January 1905. 37. This memorandum is discussed in a later chapter, '1904-1905: Shavian Farragoes'. 38. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 567. 39. The New York Times, 11 October 1905. 40. 24 December 1905. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 587. 41. Assigned to 4 January 1904. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, pp. 398-9. 42. Unless otherwise indicated, all references pertaining to the contro• versy are from The New York Times, 25 October 1905 - 2 November 1905. 43. 22-23 September 1905. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 559. 44. Ibid. 45. Critic (New York), XLVII, November 1905, p. 388. 46. December 1907. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 739. 47. Ibid., p. 740.

CHAPTER 5 1901-1910: TRANSFORMATION 1. 'The Sanity of Art', Major Critical Essays, p. 283. 2. The Times (London), 25 March 1903. 3. Ibid., 31 May 1904. 4. 23 July 1903. The Diary of Beatrice Webb, II, p. 289. 5. The Times (London), 9 September 1904. 6. , Second Innings (London: Collins, 1950), p. 110. 7. Manchester Guardian, 23 October 1905. 8. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, . 9. Daily Express (London), 4 October 1907. 10. 'Man and Bannerman', Punch (London), 17 March 1906. 11. 'Dress and the Writer: A Talk with Mr George Bernard Shaw', World of Dress (London), March 1905. 12. A. W. Pinero, Mid-Channel (London: Heinemann, 1922), p. 44. 13. Papers, Add. Ms. 45296, British Library. Published 22 February 1906, the newspaper not indicated. 14. 14 October 1905. The Diary of Beatrice Webb, II, p. 355-6.

CHAPTER 6 1890-1904: PRIVATE VENTURE, PUBLIC ENTERPRISE 1. Michael Orme, /. T. Grein: the Story of a Pioneer, 1862-1935 (London: Murray, 1936), p. 76. 2. Ibid., p. 102. 3. Ibid., p. 78. 4. 14 March 1891. Collected Letters, 1874-1897, p. 285. 5. Sunday Times (London), 27 . Notes 281

6. Saturday Review (London), 26 January 1895. Our Theatres in the Nineties, I, p. 19. 7. Ibid. 8. Bernard Shaw's Letters to Granville Barker, ed. C. B. Purdom (London: Phoenix House, 1956), p. 2. 9. Ibid., p. 4. 10. 'Granville-Barker: Some Particulars by Shaw', Drama (London), Winter 1946, p. 7. 11. Max Beerbohm, 'Mr Shaw's Position', Saturday Review (London), 9 December 1905. 12. 2 January 1901. Bernard Shaw's Letters to Granville-Barker, p. 8. 13. Mrs Warren's Profession (London: Grant Richards, 1902.) 14. 20 June 1902. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 276. 15. Allan Wade, 'Shaw and the ', Drama (London), Spring 1951. 16. See R. Mander and J. Mitchenson, 'The ', The Theatres of London (London: Hart-Davis, 1961), p. 154. 17. 'Granville-Barker: Some Particulars by Shaw'. 18. 21 April 1903. Granville Barker and His Correspondents, ed. Eric Salmon (Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press, 1986), p. 41. 19. 27 September 1903. Bernard Shaw's Letters to Granville-Barker, p. 20. 20. Morning Post (London), during the controversy following the premiere of , 29 November-5 December 1905. 21. Irene Vanbrugh, To Tell My Story (London: , 1948, repr. Dec. 1950), p. 72. 22. 16 March [1904?]. Granville Barker and His Correspondents, p. 44. 23. The Times Literary Supplement (London), 7 September 1946. 24. 25 November 1905. Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw: A Correspondence, p. 389.

CHAPTER 7 1904-1907: THE TWENTY-NINE PERCENTERS 1. H. G. Wells, Experiment in Autobiography (London: Gollancz & Cresset, 1966), pp. 621-2. 2. 16 February-6 October 1905. The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad, III, eds Frederick R. Karl and Laurence Davis (Cambridge University Press, 1988). 3. 17 . Collected Letters, 1898-1910, pp. 827-8. 4. Duncan Wilson, O.M., 1866-1957 (Oxford University Press, 1987), p. 94. 5. 23 March 1902. Quoted by Isobel Henderson, 'The Teacher of Greek', in Murray, An Unfinished Autobiography, eds Jean Smith and (London: Allen & Unwin, 1960), p. 135. 6. Wilson, Gilbert Murray O.M., 1866-1957, p. 94. 7. Ibid., p. 105. 8. From Murray's first Presidential address to the Classical Association. Quoted by E. R. Dodds in Introduction: Murray, An Unfinished Autobiography, p. 15. 9. 'On Translating Greek Tragedy', Essays in Honour of Gilbert Murray, 282 Notes

eds J. A. K. Thomson and A. J. Toynbee (London: Allen & Unwin, 1936), p. 245. 10. Ibid., p. 243. 11. Monday, January 1905. Granville Barker and His Correspondents, p. 209. 12. 5 March 1905. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 519. 13. World (London), 25 October 1904. 14. 23 October 1904. 15. Wilson, Gilbert Murray O.M., 1866-1957, p. 105. 16. Purdom, Harley Granville Barker (London: Rockliff, 1955), p. 35. 17. Ibid. 18. Ibid. 19. The Times Literary Supplement (London), 14 April 1905. 20. Fn., and , 'The Theatre and Gilbert Murray', in Murray, An Unfinished Autobiography, p. 154. 21. ' in London', Nineteenth Century and After (London), LIX, January-June 1906. 22. Fortnightly Review (London), LXXXI, January-June 1907. 23. Sunday Times (London), 1 October 1905. 24. The Times Literary Supplement (London), 29 September 1905. 25. Saturday Review (London), 7 October 1905. 26. World (London), 3 October 1905. 27. 26 February 1907. Cited by permission of the Trustees of the Theatre Museum (Victoria and Albert Museum), London. 28. From the Tribune, The Times Literary Supplement and the Observer in the week following the opening. 29. To A. W. Pinero, 17 . Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 912. 30. 18 . Collected Letters, 1898-1910, pp. 847-8. 31. Purdom, Harley Granville Barker, p. 15. 32. The Times (London), 28 January 1902. 33. 8 April 1922. Granville Barker and His Correspondents, p. 158. 34. The Old Drama and the New: An Essay in Re-valuation (London: Heinemann, 1923), pp. 357-64. 35. Saturday Review (London), 11 November 1905. 36. The Times Literary Supplement (London), 12 November 1905. 37. World (London), 14 November 1905. 38. 11 August 1905. Granville Barker and His Correspondents, p. 158. 39. To McNulty, 27 June 1908. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 790. 40. Circa 20-24 May 1907. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 686. 41. Purdom, Harley Granville Barker, pp. 102-3. 42. 13 July 1905. Letters from 1900-1932, ed. (London: Cape, 1934), p. 96. 43. 25 January 1907. Ibid., p. 131. 44. Daily Telegraph (London), 14 February 1932. 45. 10 March 1906. Letters from John Galsworthy, p. 116. 46. H. W. Marrott: The Life and Letters of John Galsworthy (London: Heinemann, 1936), p. 137. 47. 'Some Platitudes Concerning Drama', Fortnightly Review (London), . 48. Thursday, September 1906. Letters from John Galsworthy, p. 121. Notes 283

49. The Life and Letters of John Galsworthy, p. 196. 50. Purdom, Harley Granville Barker, p. 59. 51. These notices followed the opening on 25 September 1906. 52. 21 April 1907. Bernard Shaw's Letters to Granville Barker, p. 81. 53. 7 July 1908. Desmond MacCarthy, The Court Theatre 1904-1907. A Commentary and Criticism (originally published London: Bullen, 1907; edition used Coral Gables, Fla.: University of Miami, 1966, ed. Stanley Weintraub), p. 171. 54. Theodore Stier, With Pavlova Round the World (London: Hurst & Blackett, 1929), pp. 264-5. 55. These notices followed the opening on 8 January 1907. 56. 22 January 1907. Cited by permission of the Trustees of the Theatre Museum (Victoria and Albert Museum), London. 57. MacCarthy, The Court Theatre, 1904-1907, p. 172. 58. 10 July 1907. Bernard Shaw Papers, British Museum. 59. Laurence Housman, The Unexpected Years (London: Cape, 1937), pp. 218-19. 60. 9 July 1904. Granville Barker and His Correspondents, pp. 203-4. 61. 29 December 1904. Ibid., p. 208. 62. Purdom, Harley Granville Barker, pp. 32-3. 63. Saturday Review (London), 11 May 1907. 64. Housman, The Unexpected Years, p. 219. Housman's first play, Bethlehem, was refused a licence by the . 65. These notices followed the opening on 9 April 1907.

CHAPTER 8 1904-1905: SHAVIAN FARRAGOES 1. 12 March 1900. The Letters of W. B. Yeats, ed. Allan Wade (London: Hart-Davis, 1954), p. 335. 2. Preface to John Bull's Other Island, p. 13. 3. 5 October 1904. Bernard Shaw Papers, British Library. Published in part in Collected Letters, 1898-1910, pp. 452-3. 4. 7 November 1904. The Letters of W. B. Yeats, p. 42. 5. 12 June 1904. Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw: A Correspondence, p. 372. 6. 4 August 1904. Bernard Shaw's Letters to Granville Barker, p. 22. 7. 25 August 1904. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 445. 8. Daily Mail (London), 30 August 1904. 9. Unless otherwise indicated, quotations relating to John Bull's Other Island are from Bernard Shaw's Letters to Granville Barker, August-December 1904, pp. 22-45. 10. Add. Ms. 50615, Bernard Shaw Papers, British Library. 11. All notices cited here followed the opening on 1 November 1904. 12. Tatler (London), 16 November 1904. 13. 6 November 1904. 14. 15 February 1905. 15. The Diary of Beatrice Webb, II, p. 351. 16. 7 May 1905. 17. 26 November 1904. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 468. 18. Purdom, Harley Granville Barker, p. 30. 284 Notes

19. Purdom, A Guide to the Plays of Bernard Shaw (London: Methuen University Paperback, 1964), p. 168. 20. 14 March 1905. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 522. 21. Purdom, Harley Granville Barker, p. 33. 22. 5 July 1896. Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw: A Correspondence, p. 29. 23. 8 September 1896. Ibid., p. 52. 24. Ibid., p. 178. 25. 27 January 1900. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 140. 26. 4 May 1900. 27. 6 December 1904. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 471-2. 28. See Alan Andrews, 'From the Page to the Stage: The Theatrical Realization of Man and Superman', Bernard Shaw on Stage, eds E. W. Conolly and Ellen Pearson (Guelph: University of Guelph, 1991.) 29. See Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 529. 30. The Times Literary Supplement (London), 26 May 1905. 31. World (London), 30 May 1905. 32. 25 May 1905. 33. Archer, The Vedrenne-Barker Season, 1904-1905 (Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square, S.W.) (London: D. Allen & Son, 1905), p. 10.

CHAPTER 9 1905-1906: SHAVIAN PROFANITIES 1. 2 October 1905. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 565. 2. 24 December 1905. Ibid., p. 589. 3. 29 November 1905. Ibid., p. 585. 4. Daily Telegraph (London), 19 October 1905. 5. 8 December 1905. 6. 29 November 1905. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 585. 7. Our Partnership, eds Barbara Drake and Margaret J. Cole (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1948), p. 314. 8. 4 December 1905. The Letters of Sidney and Beatrice Webb: Partnership, II, 1892-1912, ed. Norman Mackenzie (Cambridge: University Press and London School of Economics and Political Science, 1978), p. 216. 9. The quotations that follow are from the Morning Post (London), 29 November 1905 - 5 December 1905. 10. World (London), 3 December 1905. 11. 1 January 1906. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 599. 12. The Times (London), 29 November 1905. 13. 28 November 1905; 2 December 1905. 14. 27 August 1905. Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw: A Correspondence, p. 382. 15. 25 November 1905. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 581. 16. 14 March 1906. Ibid., p. 607. 17. 5 May 1906. Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw: A Correspondence, p. 394. 18. 27 May 1906. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, pp. 623-4. 19. 16 May 1906. Cited by permission of the Trustees of the Theatre Museum (Victoria and Albert Museum), London. 20. Circa July 1897. Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw: A Correspondence, p. 202. 21. The Court Theatre, 1904-1907: A Commentary and Criticism, p. 80. 22. 19 July 1906. Bernard Shaw's Letters to Granville Barker, p. 65. Notes 285

CHAPTER 10 1906-JULY 1907: SHAVIAN BAD TASTE 1. Tribune (London), 14 July 1906. 2. 21 August 1906. Bernard Shaw's Letters to Granville Barker, p. 69. 3. 3 September 1906. 4. 4 December 1906. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 664. 5. 28 August 1906. Bernard Shaw's Letters to Granville Barker, p. 70. 6. 'Granville-Barker: Some Particulars by Shaw', Drama (London), Winter 1946, p. 9. 7. 17 October 1906. Cited by permission of the Trustees of the Theatre Museum (Victoria and Albert Museum), London. 8. Bernard Shaw: Theatrics, pp. 75-6. 9. Tribune (London), 21 November 1906. 10. Morning Post (London), 22 November 1906. 11. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, pp. 136. 12. Ibid., p. 242. 13. Bernard Shaw's Letters to Granville Barker, p. 74. 14. 28 August 1896. Bernard Shaw and Ellen Terry: A Correspondence, p. 38. 15. 8 June 1903. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 328. 16. Ibid., p. 376. 17. 28 December 1906. Bernard Shaw's Letters to Granville Barker, p. 73. 18. The Times Literary Supplement (London), 8 February 1907. 19. 26 February 1907. To Vedrenne; cited by permission of the Trustees of the Theatre Museum (Victoria and Albert Museum), London. 20. 27 December 1905. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 590. 21. 24 May 1907. Ibid., p. 690. 22. The Times Literary Supplement (London), 7 June 1907. 23. Henderson, George Bernard Shaw: Man of the Century, p. 580. 24. Bernard Shaw's Letters to Granville Barker, p. 89. 25. 24 May 1907. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 691. 26. 28 November 1895. Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw: A Correspondence, p. 18. 27. This 'Souvenir' pamphlet was subsequently reprinted in the Shaw Review of May 1959 and as an Appendix in MacCarthy's The Court Theatre, 1904-1907, ed. Stanley Weintraub.

CHAPTER 11 1904-1907: PRICE AND VALUE 1. The Green Room Book, ed. John Parker (London: Seaby Clark, 1907), p. 480. 2. In replying to the proposal, 'Health of the Guests of the Evening', at the testimonial dinner, Criterion Restaurant, 7 July 1907. In MacCarthy, The Court Theatre, 1904-1907, ed. Stanley Weintraub, p. 163. 3. Purdom, Harley Granville Barker, p. 65. 4. William Archer Papers, Add. Ms. 45,296, pp. 212-21, British Library. The context is a plea for money for the endowment of a National Theatre. The document, dated 4 , is a draft memorandum (a 'Letter to Millionaires'), written by Shaw for Archer and Dame 286 Notes

Edith Lyttleton. It does not appear to have been used. 5. Archer, The Old Drama and the New, p. 340. 6. In replying to the toast, 'The Authors of the Court Theatre', at the testimonial dinner, Criterion Restaurant, 7 July 1907. 7. This is Bernard F. Dukore's Bernard Shaw, Director (London: Allen & Unwin, 1971). 8. In a letter to Archer, 21 April 1903. Granville Barker and His Contemporaries, p. 42. 9. H. Granville Barker, The Exemplary Theatre (London: Chatto & Windus, 1922), pp. 222-4. 10. Ibid., pp. 225-6. 11. Casson, 'G.B.S. and the Court Theatre', Listener (London), 12 July 1951. 12. McCarthy, Myself and My Friends (London: Butterworth, 1933), p. 59. 13. Casson, 'G.B.S. at Rehearsal', Drama, Spring 1951. 14. Hardwicke, A Victorian in Orbit (London: Methuen, 1961), p. 133. 15. 'G.B.S. at Rehearsal'. 16. 'Thanks to Bernard Shaw', Theatrical Companion to Shaw (London: Rockliff, 1954), p. 14. 17. 'G.B.S. at Rehearsal'. 18. 23 November 1904. Bernard Shaw Papers, British Library. 19. 2 November 1904. Ibid. 20. Personal interview, 1969. 21. Theatre Arts (New York), September 1949. 22. 'Notes on Directing Shaw', Shaw and Other Playwrights, ed. John A. Bertolini, Shaw 13, The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993), p. 136. 23. 7 July 1907, Criterion Restaurant. 24. Saturday Review (London), 11 November 1905. 25. The Court Theatre, 1904-1907, pp. 12-17.

CHAPTER 12 1907-1908: STORMING THE CITADEL 1. Dan H. Laurence Collection, Archival Collections, University of Guelph Library. 2. To Vedrenne, 27 July 1907. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 703. 3. 1 July 1907. Dan H. Laurence Collection, Archival Collections, University of Guelph Library. 4. 10 October 1907. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 715. 5. The New York Times, 31 October 1906. 6. 'Bernard Shaw and the Heroic Actor', Play Pictorial, X, October 1907. 7. Yorkshire Post (Leeds), 17 September 1907. 8. The Times (London), 26 November 1907. Other notices cited here appeared on the same date. 9. Bernard Shaw's Letters to Granville Barker, p. 112. 10. 4 December 1907. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, pp. 737-8. 11. Undated, December 1907. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 740. 12. Dan H. Laurence Collection, Archival Collections, University of Guelph Library. Notes 287

13. 19 August 1908. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 809. 14. 1 . Bernard Shaw's Letters to Granville Barker, p. 171. 15. 3 April 1908. Ibid., p. 120. 16. These comments taken in turn from the Daily Mail, 13 May 1908; Daily Telegraph, 13 May 1908; Baughan in the Daily News, 13 May 1908; Walkley - a relatively mild-minded Walkley, to whom Shaw had given the text of two or three days before the performance - in The Times of 13 May 1907. 17. See Bernard Shaw and Alfred Douglas. A Correspondence, ed. Mary Hyde (London: Murray, 1982), p. xxxi. 18. Anonymous, 'Chronicle and Comment', Bookman (New York), August 1908. 19. 4 July 1931. Bernard Shaw and Alfred Douglas. A Correspondence, p. 12. 20. 6 July 1931. Ibid., p. 13. 21. Daily Mail (London), 14 May 1908. 22. 22-23 May 1908. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 786. 23. 29 June 1908. Ibid., p. 792.

CHAPTER 13 1908-1909: DOWN WITH THE CENSOR! 1. The Times (London), 6 . 2. Samuel Hynes, The Edwardian Turn of Mind (London: Oxford University Press, 1968), p. 222. 3. The Times (London), 30 . 4. 4 November 1907. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 718. 5. 10 October 1907. Ibid., p. 715. 6. No date, probably 24 and 25 February 1908. Purdom, Harley Granville Barker, p. 78. 7. Star (London), 18 October 1889. London Music in 1888-89, p. 231. 8. 'The Late Censor', Our Theatres in the Nineties, I, pp. 48-55. 9. 1 March 1895. Collected Letters, 1874-1897, p. 489. 10. 'The Late Censor7, p. 54. 11. 19 August 1897. Collected Letters, 1874-1897, pp. 796-7. 12. 12 March 1898. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 13. 13. 14 March 1898. Quoted by Laurence, Ibid., p. 14. 14. Our Theatres in the Nineties, III, pp. 350-1. 15. In 'The Solution of the Censorship Problem', Academy (London), 29 June 1907. 16. Sketch (London), 26 July 1905. 17. Observer (London), 23 . 18. Ibid. 19. The Times (London), 29 May 1909. 20. Ibid., 4 June 1909. 21. Ibid., 7 June 1909. 22. Ibid., 26 June 1909. 23. See 'Punch: J. M. Barrie's Gentle Swipe at "Supershaw"', ed. Leon H. Hugo, The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies, 10, eds Stanley Weintraub and Fred D. Crawford (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1990). 288 Notes

24. See 'Shakespear v. Shaw', by J. B. Fagan, ed. Leon H. Hugo, Shaw Review XIII, 3, ed. Stanley Weintraub (University Park), September 1970. 25. The Times (London), 30 July 1909. Unless otherwise indicated, refer• ences to the hearings of the Joint Select Committee are derived from The Times of 30 July 1909 to 3 . Many papers reported in some detail on the proceedings, but none more meticulously than The Times, through whose accounts the interested reader could keep abreast of the proceedings week by week. Shaw himself would find occasion to congratulate The Times on the excellence of its reporting. 26. 28 July 1909. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 852. 27. 31 July 1909. Ibid., p. 854. 28. Ibid. 29. Ibid., p. 748. 30. 17 July 1909. Ibid., p. 850. The 'Milton' referred to is his Areopagitica, published in 1640; it is to be doubted whether Shaw's statement 'supersedes' the earlier, rather more amply and nobly expressed objection to the censorship. 31. 31 July 1909. Ibid., pp. 853-4. 32. Shaw's evidence is on pp. 46-53 of the Minutes of Evidence of the Report from the Joint Select Committee of the House of Lords and the House of Commons on the Stage Plays (Censorship) together with the Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence, and Appendices (London: H.M. Stationery Office, 11 November 1909). Paragraph numbers (879-965) have been omitted. 33. 31 July 1909. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 854. 34. Hynes, The Edwardian Turn of Mind, p. 234. 35. See the Preface to The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet, pp. 408-25.

CHAPTER 14 1910: SHAVIAN NASTINESS 1. 'The Rejected Statement', Preface to The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet, p. 374. 2. 29 November 1909. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 887. 3. . Ibid., p. 882. 4. 4 May 1909. Ibid, p. 842. 5. 3 October 1909. Ibid., p. 871. 6. The Diary of Beatrice Webb, III, 1905-24, 'The Power to Alter Things', eds Norman and Jeanne MacKenzie (London: Virago and London School of Economics, 1984), p. 331. 7. Their notices appeared on 24 February 1910. 8. Saturday Review (London), 26 February 1910. 9. 27 February 1910. 10. Sunday Times (London), 27 February 1910. 11. Observer (London), 12 . 12. 17 September 1929. Bernard Shaw: Theatrics, p. 185. 13. This was an address by Walkley at a dinner in aid of the Royal General Theatrical Fund, held on 12 June and reported in The Times on 13 June 1910. Dan H. Laurence attributes 'Leaving Aristotle Out' Notes 289

to Walkley, by inference, then, also 'Got and the New Dramaturgy'. Bernard Shaw: A Bibliography II, p. 641. 14. The Times (London), 12 .

CHAPTER 15 1910: EDWARDIAN SHAW 1. 29 June 1908. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 791. 2. To Beulah Jay, 17 November 1917. Bernard Shaw: Theatrics, p. 142. 3. 31 December 1909. Collected Letters, 1898-1910, p. 823. 4. 'Mainly About Myself,' Preface to Plays Unpleasant, p. xix. 5. Preface to Widowers' Houses (1893), Prefaces by Bernard Shaw (London: Constable, 1934), p. 671. 6. Preface to Plays Pleasant, p. vii. 7. 8 August 1899. Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw: A Correspondence, pp. 312-13. 8. 6 April 1896. Ibid., p. 26. 9. Dryden's translator's licence here - 'Alban' is of course the ancient term for England - suggests that he, like Shaw two hundred years later, was not averse to adapting the words of classical antiquity to suit contemporary national sentiment. 10. G. B. Shaw: An Annotated Bibliography of Writings About Him, I: 1871-1930, compiled and edited by J. P. Wearing (Dekalb, Northern Illinois University Press: 1986). The years scrutinized, 1901-1910, are on pp. 13-112. 11. Cornhill Magazine (London), April 1905. 12. G. K. Chesterton, Heretics (London and New York: John Lane, 1905). 13. Anonymous, 'Yellow Dramatist', Outlook (New York), 25 November 1905. 14. Current Literature (New York), December 1905. 15. Fortnightly Review (London), May 1906. 16. 3 June 1907. William Archer Papers, Add. Ms. 45296, p. 185, British Library. 17. Independent (New York), March 1908. 18. 19 April 1917. Bernard Shaw: Theatrics, p. 136. 19. Henry L. Mencken, George Bernard Shaw: His Plays (Boston: John Luce, 1905). 20. Gunnar Castron, George Bernard Shaw (Helsinki: Forlagsaktiebolaget Helios, 1906). 21. Holbrook Jackson, Bernard Shaw (London: Grant Richards, 1907). 22. C. J. A. van Bruggen, George Bernard Shaw (Haerlem: H. D. Tjeenk Willink and Zoon, 1908), in the series Mannen en Vrouwen van Beteekenis in Onze Dagen, gen. ed. J. Kalff Jr. 23. G. K. Chesterton, George Bernard Shaw (London: Lane, 1906). 24. G. K. Chesterton, Autobiography (London: Hutchinson, 1936, repr. 1949), p. 224. 25. Belloc and Chesterton, New Age (London), 15 February 1908. 26. 'Chesterton on Shaw', Nation (London), 25 August 1909. Pen Portraits and Reviews, pp. 81-9. 27. Chesterton, George Bernard Shaw (London: Bodley Head, 1949), p. 21. 290 Notes

28. Julius Bab, Bernard Shaw (Berlin: S. Fisher, 1910). 29. Archibald Henderson, George Bernard Shaw: His Life and Works (London: Hurst & Blackett; Cincinatti: Stewart & Kidd, 1911).

POSTSCRIPT 1911: FANNY'S FIRST PLAY 1. J. K. Galbraith, A Life in Our Times (1981). 2. Francis Bacon, Apophthegms (1625). 3. John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada (1670). 4. 'Maxims for Revolutionists', Man and Superman, p. 213. 5. Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism (1711). 6. P. G. Wodehouse, New York Mirror, 27 May 1955. 7. Christopher Hampton, Sunday Times (London), 1977. 8. The New York Times, 5 November 1950. 9. These terms, 'horizon of expectations', 'aesthetic distance' and 'culi• nary' are derived from the Theory of Reception Aesthetics of Hans-Robert Jauss. 10. Collected Letters, 1911-1925, p. 146. 11. Purdom, A Guide to the Plays of Bernard Shaw, pp. 238-9. 12. Pall Mall Gazette (London), 21 April 1911. 13. Preface to Fanny's First Play, p. 248. 14. See Charles A. Carpenter Jr, 'Shaw's Cross-Section of Anti-Shavian Opinion', Shaw Review (University Park), VII, 3 (September 1964) for a revealing analysis of Shaw's schematic representation of critical opinion. 15. Fanny's First Play, Induction, pp. 255-6. 16. Ibid., p. 261. 17. Ibid., Epilogue, pp. 322-4. 18. Ibid., pp. 321-2. 19. Ibid., p. 323. 20. The Times (London), 20 April 1911. 21. Daily News (London), 20 April 1911. 22. 'Fanny's Second Play', Bookman (New York), . 23. Saturday Review (London), 22 April 1911. Index

Abbey Theatre (Dublin), 130, 212 also Murray, Gilbert Academy, The, 192-5, 207 Aristotle, 88, 238, 239, 273; 'Laws of Achurch, Janet, 205 Drama', 239-40, 273 , 7 : see SHAW: Alexander, (Sir) George, 141 PLAYS The Admirable Bashville: see SHAW: Asquith, (Rt Hon.) H. H., 137, 209, PLAYS 213 American, The (New York), 80 Ashwell, Lena, 202 Andreson, Hans, 170 Athenaeum, The, 6,133 Andrew Pater son: see Hankin, St Austen, Alfred, 13, 14 John Authors'Club, The, 203 Androcles and the Lion: see SHAW: PLAYS Bab, Julius: Bernard Shaw, 264 : see SHAW: PLAYS Bacchae: see Euripides Appleton, 64 : see SHAW: Archer, William, 10, 93, 95, 96, 101, PLAYS 102,104,119,120,136,141,168, Bacon, (Sir) Francis, 266 170, 189, 216, 243, 257; opinion of Balfour, (later 1st Earl of) Arthur Shaw in 1890s, vii, 25; opinion of James, 50,137,148,149, 213 Arms and the Man, 6; role in Bancrofts, the (Sir Squire and Lady shaping Shaw's career, 67-8; (Marie Wilton)), 93 with Barker, 'Scheme and Baring, Maurice, 203 Estimates for a National Barker, H. Granville (see also Theatre', 105; promotes Murray's Vedrenne-Barker), ix, 107,109, translations, 110; on the 117, 123, 131,132, 139,142, 148, , 111; on The Return of 154, 156, 159,160, 162, 163, 164, the Prodigal, 115; on The Voysey 165, 187,188, 202, 203-4, 207, 214, Inheritance, 118; on The Silver Box, 216, 218, 233, 274; Stage Society 122; on Prunella, 126; on John and Shaw, 96-7, 100; at Bull's Other Island, 133; on Man the Court, 100,101-2; career, and Superman, 145; The Court 103-5; a national theatre; with Theatre: A Record and a Archer, 'Scheme and Estimates Commentary, 145-6, 267; on Major for a National Theatre', 105; Barbara, 152; criticised by directs the Hippolytus, 110-11; Beerbohm, 152; Ibsen, Shaw and Trojan Women, 111-12; as play• death, 158-9; on The Doctor's wright, 117-21; collaboration Dilemma, 161; dislikes The with Housman, 125-6; creates Philanderer, 162; evidence before role of Tanner, 143; of Cusins, 1892 Select Committee, 199; 149; Shaw's criticism, 163; evidence before 1909 Select address at testimonial dinner, Committee, 218; angered by 167, 169, 177, 179; as director, Noyes's attack on Shaw, 260; 128, 170-3, 175,177; The ability as critic, 267, 269 Exemplary Theatre, 171-2; reacts : , 110; see to rejection of Waste, 201;

291 292 Index

Barker, H. Granville - continued Shaw, 97; on Hankin, 115,120; evidence before Joint Select on The Voysey Inheritance, 118, Committee, 228; campaigns 120; on The Campden Wonder, 124; against Brookfield, 229; on Prunella, 127; on Votes for Walkley's remonstrance, 239-40; Women!, 128; defends John Bull's takes Little Theatre with Lillah Other Island, 133; attacks fellow McCarthy, 270 critics, 137; 'Vedrenne' one of Plays: Barker's pseudonyms, 151; on The Weather-Hen (with Berte Major Barbara, 152-3, 267-8; on Thomas), 104,117; The Marrying the acting at the Court, 178; on of Ann Leete, 100,117-18,119; the , 236, 238; stock criti• 'Ann Leete vein', 120,126; The cism of Shaw, 243; critical ability, Voysey Inheritance, produced at 267, 269 the Court, Shavian influences, Behrend, Max, 170 118-21; hard-headed realism of, Belloc, Hilaire, 203, 263 126; puts Shaw in back seat, 147; Bennett, Arnold, 20-1, 228 evening bill at the Court, 156; Benson, Frank, 103 purposeful indigenous drama, Bernard Shaw: A Bibliography: see 156; box office success, 168; Laurence, Dan H. acting in, 178, scrutiny of Bernard Shaw: Life and Works; Edwardian professional man, Bernard Shaw: Man of the Century, 186; planned inclusion in Savoy Bernard Shaw: Playboy and season, 188; The Secret Life, 118; : see Henderson, Waste refused licence, 185,188, Archibald 201, 228; scrutiny of Edwardian Bethlehem: see Housman, Laurence political man, 186; Shaw defends Bibliography: see Select play, 208; Prunella (see Housman) Bibliography Barnicoat, Constance: 'Mr Bernard Bijou Theatre, 141 Shaw's Counterfeit Presentment Blackwood's Magazine (Edinburgh), of Women', 259, 261 9, 87-8, 96,146, 260 Barrie, James (Sir), 89, 178, 202, 203, Blair, Phyllis, 189 233, 273; Peter Pan, 127, 233; Bland, Edith, 42, 43 Punch, 213-14; Josephine, 214; Blumenfeld, Ralph P., 160 Alice Sit-by-the-Fire, 233 Bookmman, The, 259 Baughan, Edward A., opinion of Bookman, The (New York): 'Fanny's John Bull's Other Island, 133; one Second Play', 274 of the better critics, 152; opinion Boucicault, Dion, 166 of Caesar and Cleopatra, 187; of Bowdler, Thomas, 199 Getting Married, 192; of Brand, Tita, 142 Misalliance, 235; of The Dark Lady Brandes, Georg: 'Bernard Shaws of the Sonnets, 242; stock criticism Teater', 61, 257 of Shaw, 243; as Vaughan in Breaking Point, The: see Garnett, Fanny's First Play, 272, 273; Edward opinion of Fanny's First Play, 274 Brentano, Arthur, 64, 251, 252 Beckett, Samuel, 266 Brieux, Eugene, 101, 208; Maternite Beecham, (Sir) Thomas, 242 and Les Troix Filles de M. Dupont, Beerbohm, (Sir) Max, 203; reviews 201 Man and Superman, 65; defends British Medical Journal, The, 30, 31, his opinion, 65-6; opinion of 32 passim, 84 Index 293

Brookfield, Charles, 229 Chesterton, Gilbert Keith, reviews Brough, Fanny, 75 Man and Superman, 65; encour• Brouta, Julio: 'El Teatro de Bernard aged to write plays, 107; writes Shaw', 257 Magic, 108; evidence before Joint Builder, The, 100 Select Committee, 227; Shaw writes scenario for him, 232; a Caesar and Cleopatra: see SHAW: 'big' Shaw critic, 261, 'Mr Bernard PLAYS Shaw' (in Heretics), 258-9,263, 'C.C, 'Vaccination': see and George Bernard Shaw, 263-4; Encyclopaedia Britannica friendship with Shaw, 263 Caine, Hall; Christian and Die Chilton, Caroll Brent: 'Shaw Walkure, 227 Contra Mundum', 260-1 Calvert, Louis, 131,149,176 Christian: see Caine, Hall Campbell-Bannerman, (Sir) Henry, Chudleigh, Arthur, 101 137, 202, 209 Churchill, (Sir) Winston, 41, 87, 203 Campbell, (Mrs) Patrick, 160,163 Cigarette Box, The: see Galsworthy, Cambridge University Press, Mass., John, The Silver Box 64 Civic and Dramatic Guild, 213 Campden Wonder, The: see Clarion, The, 44, 50, 59, 84,148,158 Masefield, John Clarke, R. & R., 63, 251 Candida: see SHAW: PLAYS Cole, Margaret, 49 Candid Friend, The, 23 Comstock, Anthony, 76-7, 81, 207, Cannan, Gilbert, 235; attacks 208 Misalliance, 236, 238, 242; Conrad, Joseph, 107, 202, 228; One as Gunn in Fanny's First Play, 272, Day More, 107 273, 274 Constable, Archibald & Co., 63-4, Captain Brassbound's Conversion: see 250, 251 SHAW: PLAYS Convert, The: see Robins, Elizabeth Cardus, Neville, 86-7 Convict on the Hearth, The: see Fenn, Carey, Elisabeth L.: 'Apostles of the Frederick New Drama', 258 Conway, H. B., 214 Carlisle, (Countess of), Rosalind 'Corno di Bassetto': see SHAW: Frances 113,148 TOPICS, THEMES Carlyon Sahib: see Murray, Gilbert: Court Theatre, 100-80 passim; addi• Plays tionally, ix, 66, 71,183,184,185, Cassilis Engagement, The: see 186,188,189,190,192, 200, 207, Hankin, St John 209, 213, 214, 232, 233, 237, 248, Casson, (Sir) Lewis, 172,173,174, 251, 258, 262, 267, 268 176-7 Court Theatre, The: see MacCarthy, Castron, Gunnar: 'G. Bernard Desmond Shaw', 262 Covent Garden Opera House, viii, Censorship of the Stage, 197 242 passim; see also Redford, G. A.; Craig, Gordon, 164 Smyth Pigott, E. F. Criterion Restaurant, 103,166,191, Chamberlain, Joseph, 49-50, 51, 52 242, 268 Charity that Began at Home, The: see Critic, The (New York), 7-8, 9 Hankin, St John Current Literature (New York): 'The Charrington, Charles, 205 Case of the Poets Versus Shaw', Chesterfield, (Lord) P. D. S., 198 259 294 Index

Daly, Arnold, 27,131, 132,133,188; Educational Muddle and the Way Out, early career, 72; produces The: see Webb, Sidney Candida, 73; , Edward VII, King, 'Edwardian 73; How He Lied to Her Husband, Age', viii; Royal Command 73; You Never Can Tell, 73-4; John Performance oijohn Bull's Other Bull's Other Island, 74-5; fiasco of Island, 138,139; attends The Mrs Warren's Profession, 75-82; Devil's Disciple, 185; death and produces Arms and the Man, 81 general mourning, 245 Daily Chronicle, The, 84 Elektra (Opera): see Strauss, Richard Daily Express, The, 84, 88,160-1 : see Euripides Daily Mail, The, 21, 22, 51, 52, 53, 55, Eliot, Thomas Stearns: 'Euripides 56-7,131,141,195, 234, 237 and Mr Murray7,110 Daily News, The, 39, 43, 44, 56,133, Elliott, Gertrude (Mrs Forbes 152, 187, 234, 272, 273 Robertson), 162,186,187 Daily Telegraph, The, 84, 95,128,133, Ellis, Havelock: 'The Prophet 145, 190,192 Shaw', 257 Dandy Dick: see Pinero, A.W. Encyclopaedia Britannica 1888: 'C.C D'Annunzio, Gabriele: La Citta on 'Vaccination', 29-30 morte, 217 'End in Paris, An': see Wagner, The Dark Lady of the Sonnets: see Richard SHAW: PLAYS Enden, Walter & Crew, W. R., 100 Deutsche Neue Presse, 86 Englishwoman, The, 59 The Devil's Disciple: see SHAW: Era, 5 PLAYS Ervine, St John, 173 De Wet, (Gen.) Christiaan, 14 Esmond, H. V., 9 Dickens, Charles, 200 Euripides (translated by Gilbert The Doctor's Dilemma: see SHAW: Murray): Hippolytus, New PLAYS Century Theatre production, 96, : see Mozart, 109-10; produced at the Court, Wolfgang Amadeus 110-11; goes into evening bill, in Hell: see SHAW: PLAYS 113,156; contributes to D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, 183 renascence of English stage, 157; Douglas, (Lord) Alfred, 192-5 Trojan Women produced at the :see Stoker, Bram Court, 111-12,124, 140; 'the Drama and Life: see Walkley, A. B. noblest play', 169; Bacchae, 110, Dramatic Mirror: 'Current influence on Major Barbara, Literature', 259 113-14; Electra produced at the Dramatic Opinions and Essays: see Court, 113,154; produced SHAW: TEXTS CITED at the Savoy, 185,186 Dramatists' Club, The, 215 Evening Standard, The, 124 Drury Lane Theatre, 93,154 Evans, (Dame) Edith, 176 Dryden, John: translation of the Evans, F. H., 63 Aeneid, 254-5; opinion of critics, Examiner of Plays: see Redford, G. 266 A. and Smyth Pigott, E. F. Duckworth, Gerald, 96 Exemplary Theatre, The: see Barker, Dukat, Vladoje: 'George Bernard H. Granville Shaw', 257 Duke of York's Theatre, 233 Fabian Society/ Fabian Socialism/ Fabianism, 1, 2, 4, 5,10,17,19, Index 295

22, 27, 28, 88, 97,104, 128, 159, produced at the Court, 121-3, 190, 203, 246, 256, 262; also 39 163,168; Joy, produced at the passim: equality and Savoy, 123,185,186; , 123, Communism, 39; breeding a new 188; , 123 sort of man, 39-41; new-found Gane, Charles, 37 faith, 41-2; niceness and arro• Garnett, Edward, 121, 200, 201, 217; gance, 42-3; class consciousness, The Breaking Point, 200-1, 217 43-4; education, 44-7; Common (New York), 79, 81 Sense of Municipal Trading, 47-9; Gay Lord Quex, The: see Pinero, tariff reform, 49-51; Fabianism Arthur Wing and the Fiscal Question, 51-3; Ghosts: see Ibsen, Henrik sundry Shavian-Fabian Gilbert, (Sir) William Schwenck, pronouncements, 58-60 100, 203, 204, 227, 228; The Happy Fackel, Die, 257 Land, 100; The Mikado (with Fagan, J. B.: Shakespeare v. Shaw, 89, Sullivan), 207 214 Getting Married: see SHAW: PLAYS Fanny's First Play: see SHAW: Gladstone, (Rt Hon.) Herbert, 202, PLAYS 203, 204, 209 Farr, Florence, 111, 113,164 Gosse, Edmund, 202 Faversham, William, 261 Gorell, (Lord) John Gorell Barnes, Fenn, Frederick: The Convict on the 216, 225 Hearth, 127,154 Got, Edmund: Diaries, 239, 240 Fielding, Henry, 198 Granville Barker, Harley: see Fifth Avenue Theatre (New York), Barker, H. Granville 8 Green Room Book, The, 167 Fire Bird: see Stravinsky, Igor Gregory, (Lady) Augusta, 130, 212 Forbes Robertson, (Sir) Johnston, Grein, J. T., 4-5, 6, 7,107; forms 185, 186-7 , 93-5; Forsyte Saga, The: The Man of praises Hippolytus, 111; praises Property and In Chancery: see The Return of the Prodigal, 115; Galsworthy, John Galsworthy and Barker kindred Fortnightly Review, The, 60, 114,122 spirits, 122; dislikes The Frau Gitta's Siihne: see Trebitsch, Philanderer, 162; lament over Siegfried Misalliance, 236-7; ability as a Friedensfest: see Hauptmann, critic, 267, 268; dislikes Fanny's Gerhard First Play, 274 Frohman, Charles, 233, 237, 239 Grundy, Sydney, 73 Frogs, The (play by Aristophanes): Gumpertz, Samuel, 80, 81, 82 see Murray, Gilbert Guy Domville: see James, Henry Gwynn, Stephen: 'Mr G.B. Shaw Gaiety Theatre (Manchester), 215 and the British Public', 258 Galton, Francis, 41 Galsworthy, John, 14, 109, 121-3, Haggard, H. Rider, 203 203, 212, 228, 233; The Forsyte Halley's Comet, 246 Saga. In Chancery, 14-5; The : see Shakespeare, William Forsyte Saga. The Man of Property, Hamon, Augustin, 71,159 121; 'Some Platitudes Hampton, Christopher, 266 Concerning Drama', 122; The Hankin, St John, 107,109,114-17, Silver Box (The Cigarette Box), 119,147, 212; Andrew Pater son 296 Index

Hankin, St John - continued Hewlett, Maurice, 107, 127, 228; (with Nora Vynne), 114; The Pan and the Young Shepherd Return of the Prodigal, 106, produced at the Court, 127,154, produced at the Court, 115-16, 173; The Youngest of the Angels 129,147,176, Shaw's criticism, produced at the Court, 127,154 116; laments his death, 117; The Hippolytus: see Euripides Two Mrs Wetherbys, 115; The His Majesty's Theatre, 143, 209, 249 Charity that Began at Home Hobbes, John Oliver (Mrs Craigie), produced at the Court, 116-17; 9 158; The Cassilis Engagement, 116, Hobson, S. G, 51 117,188; The Last of the De Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 261 Mullins, 117,188 Horniman, Annie, 212, 248-9 Happy Land, The: see Gilbert, W. S. Housman, Laurence, 125,196, 202, Harcourt, Cyril: The Reformer 217; Bethlehem, 126, 201, 217; produced at the Court, 123,124; Prunella (with Barker) produced at 162 the Court, 125-7,139,156,164, Harcourt, Robert Vernon, An Angel 173, 268; The Chinese Lantern Unawares, 127; A Question of Age produced at the Haymarket, 190, produced at the Court, 106,127, 196 154, 209, 268; playwrights' friend How He Lied to Her Husband: see in Parliament, 209, 212; serves on SHAW: PLAYS Joint Select Committee, 216, Hudson Theatre (New York), 76 224-5, 227, 228; Human Nature, 93 Hardwicke, (Sir) Cedric, 173 Humane Review, The, 16-17 Hardy, Thomas, 93, 202, 228 Huneker, James, 72 Harper, Appleton, 64 Hynes, Samuel, 201 Harris, Frank, 23,192 Harrison, Frederick, 141,190,194, Ibsen, Henrik, 94,101,109,129, 200 158,199, 204; Ghosts produced by Hauptmann, Gerhard, 101,109, Independent Theatre, 94-5, 201, 122,129,168, 264; Friedensfest, 96; 208, 224; League of Youth, 96; The The Thieves' Comedy, 122, Wild Duck produced at the produced at the Court, 140, 268 Court, 147,157; Hedda Gabler Haymarket Theatre, 7, 93,184,192, produced at the Court, 163 200, 214 Ifor Evans, B., 26 Haymarket Theatre, The: see Maude, Importance of Being Ernest, The: see Cyril Wilde Oscar Hedda Gabler: see Ibsen, Henrik Independent, The (New York), 260 Heine, Heinrich, 26, 241 Independent Theatre, 4-5, 7, 94-5 Henderson, Archibald, 37, 71, 72, In the Hospital: see Schnitzler, Artur 73,165, 257, 261, 264-5; Bernard Irving, (Sir) Henry, 7, 86, 93, 94, Shaw: Life and Works, 265; Bernard 151,199 Shaw: Playwright and Prophet, 265; Bernard Shaw: Man of the Century, Jackson, Holbrook: Bernard Shaw, 265 262 Heneage, Charles, 206 James, Henry, 108, 202, 228; Guy Heretics: see Chesterton, G. K. Domville and Saloon, 108 Hertz, H. A., 70 Jarvis, C. W., 94 Hevese, Dr Sandor (Alex), 248 Jitta's Atonement: see SHAW: PLAYS Index 297

John Bull's Other Island: see SHAW: Loraine, Robert, 76, 82, 163, 164-5, PLAYS 187 Joint Select Committee ... on Stage Lyceum Theatre, 189 Plays (Censorship), viii, 215 Lyric Theatre, 110 passim, 231, 249-50 Lyttleton, (Dame) Edith, 168, 226 Jones, Henry Arthur, 9, 94, 178, Lytton, (Lord) Edward George 201; The Liars, 201 Bulwer, 198 Joseph II, Emperor, 239 Lytton, (Lord) Victor, 203 Joy: see Galsworthy, John Justice: see: Galsworthy, John MacCarthy, Desmond, on Major Barbara, 153; on Captain Kerr, Frederick, 4,16 Brassbound's Conversion, 154,155; Kingston, Gertrude, 140 on acting at the Court, 178-9; as Kipling, Rudyard, 13,107,108 a critic, 267, 269; The Court Kitchener, (Lord) H. H, 213 Theatre, 155, 267 , Joseph, 6 MacCrosty, H. W., 51 Kraus, K.: 'Literatur', 257 Macmillan, 64 Kyllman, Otto, 63 McAdoo, William, 79, 80, 81 McCarthy, Lillah, 140,143, 160, 162, La Belle Helene: see Offenbach, 163,164,173,187,188, 270 Jacques McClellan, G. B., (Mayor of New La Citta morte: see D'Annunzio, York), 80 Gabriele McClure, Philip and Co., 64 La Gallienne, Richard, 259 McKinnel, Norman, 165 Lamp (New York), 257 McNulty, Matthew Edward, 30, Last of the De Mullins: see: Hankin, 196, 246 St John Madras House, The: see Barker, H. Laurence, Dan H, 64, 218, 271; Granville Collected Letters, 1898-1910, 74; Maeterlinck, Maurice, 101,109,129, Bernard Shaw: A Bibliography, 27, 168; Aglavaine and Selysette, 173; 84 Monna Vanna, 201, 217 Law, H, 216, 217, 223, 227 Magic: see Chesterton, G. K. Lawrence, D. H., 41 Magistrate, The: see Pinero, Arthur League of Youth: see Ibsen, Henrik Wing Leigh, J. B., 101-2 Major Barbara: see SHAW: PLAYS Lessing, G. E., 241 Man and Superman: see SHAW: Les Troix Filles de M. Dupont: see PLAYS Brieux, Eugene Manchester Guardian, The, 86 Liars, The: see Jones, Henry Arthur Mandell, H, 94 Library of Congress, 64 Manhattan Theatre (New York), 82 Lindroth, Frau, 243 The Man of Destiny: see SHAW: Little Theatre, 270 PLAYS Litton, Marie, 100 Man of Honour, A: see W. Somerset Lockwood, (Colonel) C. P. R., 216, Maugham 217, 220, 221, 227 Mansfield, Richard, 7, 8, 82,186 Lodge, Oliver, 203 Marbury, Elizabeth, 72, 77, 248, 249 London Society for Women's Maurice, Edmund, 214 Suffrage, The, 213 Marrying of Ann Leete, The: see Longman's, 63 Barker: Plays 298 Index

Masefield, John, 109, 179, 180, 196; Court, 111-14; at the Savoy, 185, The Campden Wonder produced 186 at the Court, 123-5, 162, 180, 268; Murray, John, 63 The Tragedy of Nan, 188, 190, Murray, (Lady) Mary, 112,113,147-8 196 Masek, Karl, 249 Nash, J. Everleigh, 48 Masks and Faces: see Reade, Charles Nation, The, 136, 208, 210, 243, 263 Mason, A. E. W., 216, 227 National Theatre, 105,136,145,183, Massingham, H. W. 84, 96, 243 210, 237; National Theatre Maternite: see Brieux, Eugene Movement, 242 Maude, Cyril, 7, 141, 214; The Neue Freie Presse, Die, 151 Haymarket Theatre, 141 New Age, 58 Maugham, W. Somerset: A Man of New Century Theatre, 96, 110, 162 Honour, 100 Newman, Ernest, 243-5 Melville, Walter and Frederick, New Theatre (New York), 189 189-90 Newton, (Lord) Thomas Mencken, Henry L.: Bernard Shaw: Wodehouse Leigh, 228 His Plays, 262 Newton, Christopher, 177 Methuen and Co., 62 New York Herald, The, 80 Meredith, George, 63, 94, 202 New York Journal, The, 74 Meredith, William Maxse, 63 New York Sun, The, 74 Mid-Channel: see Pinero, Arthur New York Times, The, 8, 65, 73, 74, Wing 76 passim, 186 Mikado, The: see Gilbert, W. S. New York Tribune, The, 80 Milton, John: Areopagitica, 203, 219 Norman, Thirza, 101 Misalliance: see SHAW: PLAYS Notorious Mrs Ebbsmith, The: see Moliere, (Jean Baptiste Poquelin), Pinero, Arthur Wing 26 Noyes, Alfred: 'Sham and Monna Vanna: see Maeterlinck, Supersham', 259-60 Maurice Moore, George, 94 Observer, The, 115, 122, 128, 137, Morning Leader, The, 15, 16, 17 211,213,236 Morning Post, The, 103,150-2, Oedipus Tyrannus (' play), 161-2, 268, 269 201 Moorat, Joseph, 126, 190 Offenbach, Jacques: Orphee aux Morris, William, 22, 62 Enfers and La Belle Helene, 187 Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Don O'Malley, Ellen, 176 Giovanni, 85, 239 One Day More: see Conrad, Joseph Mrs Warren's Profession: see SHAW: Orage, A. R.: 'G.B.S. as M.P.', 58 PLAYS Orphee aux Enfers: see Offenbach, Murray, Gilbert (see also Euripides), Jacques 96, 104, 109, 119, 120, 126, 147, Our Partnership: see Webb, Beatrice 148, 149, 167, 168, 169, 185, 202, 203, 219; reacts to publication of 'P.J.' (theatre critic for Saturday Man and Superman, 66; writes Review), 275 Carlyon Sahib, 110; translates Palmer, John: 'Mr Bernard Shaw: Greek classics, 110; production of An Epitaph', 60 Euripides-Murray by New Pan and the Young Shepherd: see Century Theatre, 110; at the Hewlett, Maurice Index 299

Parke, Ernest, 16 186,202,207,229; queries Major Payne, B. Iden, 215 Barbara, 148; icon of conservatism, Payne-Townshend, Charlotte: see 197; succeeds Smyth Pigott, 199; Shaw, Charlotte vetoes The Breaking Point, 200-1; Pearson, Hesketh, 263 vetoes Waste, 201; vetoes Mrs Pease, Edward, 42, 43, 51-2, 60 Warren's Profession, 205-6; vetoes Penrose-Fitzgerald, (Vice-Admiral), The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet, C. C, 86 ensuing controversy, 209-12; Peter Pan: see Barrie, James vetoes , ensuing : see SHAW: PLAYS controversy, 212-15; evidence Philips, W. L., 43 before Joint Select Committee, Pinero, (Sir) Arthur Wing, 9, 89, 93, 201-2,216-18; features in Shaw's 94,100,101,178, 202, 203, 231, evidence, 219,222,224 233, 273; Mid-Channel, 89; The Redgrave, (Sir) Michael, 176 Magistrate, 93, 100; The Reformer, The: see Harcourt, Cyril Schoolmistress, 100; Dandy Dick, Reinhardt, Max, 186 100; The Profligate, 101; Report from the Joint Selection The Second Mrs Tanqueray, 101; Committee on Stage Plays, 229 The Notorious Mrs Ebbsmith, 101; Return of the Prodigal, The: see Trelawny of the 'Wells', 101, 234; Hankin, St John The Gay Lord Quex, 201 Revista Critica, 257 Pinker, J. B., 62 Reynolds, (ex-Senator), 78, 80 Playgoers' Club, The, 94 Richard II: see Shakespeare, William Playhouse Impressions: see Walkley, Richards, Grant, 7, 61, 250, 251 A. B. Ricketts, Charles, 165 Poel, William, 104, 171 Roberts, (Lord) F. S. R., 213 Poland, (Sir) Harold, 211 Robins, Elizabeth, 96,128, 129; The Pole, Katherine, 249 Convert, 128; Votes for Women! Politikken, 257 produced at the Court, 128-9, Pope, Alexander, 266 163, 164; production costs, 168; Press Cuttings: see SHAW: PLAYS highlights Barker's genius as Press, The (New York), 80 director, 128, 172 Princess Theatre (New York), 73 Robson, Eleanor, 74, 147, 148 Profligate, The: see Pinero, Arthur Romeo and Juliet: see Shakespeare, Wing William Prunella: see Housman, Laurence Ross, Robert: 'Shavings from Pugh, Patricia, 42 Superman', 192 Punch, 50, 88, 213 Royal Court Theatre: see Court Purdom, C. B., 122, 139, 249 Theatre : see SHAW: PLAYS Royal Theatre (Amsterdam), 94 , 96,189 Queen's Theatre, 184, 185, 188 Rule Britannia: see SHAW: PLAYS, Question of Age, A: see Harcourt, John Bull's Other Island R.V. St James's Gazette, 57 Reade, Charles: Masks and Faces, 93 St James's Theatre, 140 Reader of Plays: see Redford, G. A. St John, Christopher, 141 and Smyth Pigott, F. E. St Mary's Hospital, 158 Redford, , 159, : see SHAW: PLAYS 300 Index

Saloon: see James, Henry Vaccination controversy: educating Samuel, (later 1st Viscount) the public, 27-8; vaccin• Herbert Louis, 215, 216, 218, 219, ation: scepticism endorsed cross-examines Shaw, 220-4; by 1888 Encyclopaedia 226, 227 Britannica, 29-30; letters to Saturday Review, The, 2, 8, 30, 84, 93, The Times, 31-2; confronta• 152, 204, 205, 267, 275 tion with British Medical Savoy Theatre, 183 passim, 190, 201, Journal, 32-6; assessment of 237 role, 36-8 Schnitzler, Artur, 101,109,129,139, As Shavian-Fabian: eugenics, 168; In the Hospital, 139 39-41; rediscovered 'faith', Schoolmistress, The: see Pinero, 41-2; class consciousness, Arthur Wing 42-4; education, 44-7; Scott, Clement, 95 Common Sense of Municipal Secret Life, The: see Barker: Plays Trading, 47-9; tariff reform Second Mrs Tanqueray, The: see and Fabianism and the Fiscal Pinero, Arthur Wing Question, 49-53; borough Select Bibliography (bibliograph• councillor and LCC candi• ical, biographical, critical), x-xii date, 53-8; continued Shakespeare, William, 3,10,101, Shavian-Fabian activities, 189, 253; Cymbeline, 3; The 58-60 Tempest, 101; Romeo and Juliet, Emergence as international figure: 101; Two Gentlemen of Verona, writes Man and Superman, 101; Richard II, 104; Twelfth Night, search for new publishers, 173; Hamlet, 201, 210 61-5, critical reaction to Shaw, Charlotte (Mrs G. Bernard), book, 65-7; Trebitsch as 8,17, 55, 62, 96,131 German translator, 67-71; other translators, 71-2; SHAW, G. BERNARD Daly's American campaign, TOPICS, THEMES 72-82 Prefatory: public status in 1901, Growing recognition in Britain: the vii; emergence in Edwardian press as principal mouth• years, vii-x; bibliographical, piece, 83-4; as seen by The biographical and critical Times, 84-6; as seen by works on Shaw, x-xii contemporaries, 86-90 In the 1890s: emergence as Corno Association with independent di Bassetto and G.B.S.: art, theatres: J. T. Grein, the music and drama critic, 2-4; Independent Theatre and becomes playwright: Widowers' Houses, 93-5; the Widowers' Houses and Arms Stage Society, 96-7; produc• and the Man, critical reaction, tion and publication of Mrs 4-7; continued failure, critic• Warren's Profession, 97-100; al indifference, 7-10 the Royal Court Theatre, January 1901: reacts to new Candida and Vedrenne- century, Queen Victoria's Barker management, 100-6 death, 15-16; 'Civilization Promotes avant garde indigenous and the Soldier', 16-19; drama: Conrad and others, Three Plays for Puritans, 107-8; Gilbert Murray 19-21; self-promotion, 21-6 (Euripides), 109-14; Hankin, Index 301

114-17; Barker, 117-21; confrontation over Shewing- Galsworthy, 121-3; Up of Blanco Posnet, 209-12; Masefield, 123-5; other play• over Press Cuttings, 212-15; wrights, 125-9 appears before Joint Select First season at the Court Theatre: Committee, 218-27; featured writes John Bull's Other in evidence offered by Island, production, 130-3; others, 227-9 critical reaction, 133-4, 137; Continuing opposition: develop• tight construction, 135; ment as playwright, 231-3; productions of Candida, Misalliance, 233-9; Walkley's 138-9; How He Lied to her remonstrance, Shaw's Husband, 139-40; You Never response, 239-42; Newman Can Tell, 140-2; Man and and Strauss's Elektra, 242-5 Superman, 142-3; critical Edwardian achievement: reputa• reaction, 143-5 tion, 246-7; professional Second season at the Court Theatre: earnings, 247-52; larger aim Major Barbara: composition, as artist, 252-6; contempor• production and controversy, ary critical opinions, 257-65 147-53; Ellen Terry and 'Revenge' on the critics: ahead of Captain Brassbound's contemporaries, critical Conversion, 153-6 bemusement, 266-70; writes Third season at the Court Theatre: Fanny's First Play, 270-4; The Doctor's Dilemma: production and critical reac• composition, production tion, 274; 'victory' over the and critical reaction, 158-62; critics, 274-5 The Philanderer, Don Juan in Hell and Man of Destiny, PLAYS 162-6 The Admirable Bashville: Stage Assessment: Shaw at the Court: Society production, 99; financial considerations, Beerbohm Tree's produc• 167-70; as director, 173-7; tion, 248, 249 attack on the critics, 179-80 Androcles and the Lion: 267, 275 The Savoy and after: at the Savoy: The Apple Cart: 173,176 You Never Can Tell, The Arms and the Man: 188,189,199, Devil's Disciple, Caesar and 249, 269; first production Cleopatra and Arms and the and critical reaction, 6-7; Man, 184-8; dissolution of Mansfield's American Vedrenne-Barker partner• success, 7, 82; published in ship, 188-90; at the Drei Dramen, 68; Trebitsch's Haymarket: Getting Married: flawed translation, 68, 70; attack on critics, 190-2, crit• production in Vienna ical reaction and quarrel shelved, 69; Daly's produc• with Alfred Douglas, 192-6 tion, 81; at the Savoy, 185, Stage Censorship: attacks late 187-8; tours the provinces, Examiner, Smyth Pigott, 189; performed in South 204-5; Examiner Redford Africa, 249; based on the vetoes Mrs Warren's Aeneid, 254-5 Profession, 205-6; occasional Back to Methuselah: 18 attacks on Examiner, 206-9; Caesar and Cleopatra: 191, 271; in 302 Index

SHAW, G, BERNARD - continued casting, 159-60; quarrel with Three Plays for Puritans, 20; Daily Express, 160-1; critical Forbes Robertson's produc• reaction, 161-2; box office tion at the Savoy, 185,186; success, 168; published, 220; critical reaction, Shaw's performed in Germany, 248 resentment, 186-7; epic Don Juan in Hell: 143,191; qualities, 254; a watershed produced at the Court, play, 256 164-6; Robert Ross spoof, Candida: 75,140,142,145,159, 192; success as 'dramatised 258, 269; Mansfield rejects debate', 233 play, 7; Tarpay's opinion, 9; Fanny's First Play: 136,141; Trebitsch discovers play, 68; anonymity as subterfuge, publishes it in Drei Dramen 187, 270-1; a 'culinary' plot, 68; his flawed translation, 271-2; critics represented on 70; Daly's production; crit• stage, 272-4; production and ical reaction, 72-3; Stage critical reaction, 274-5 Society production, 96-7; Getting Married: 234, 235, 241, produced at the Court, 275; naturalistic set, 120; 101-2, 138-9; performed in pre-production attack on South Africa, 240; heroine critics, 190-2; production at the 'Virgin Mother', 254 the Haymarket, critical reac• Captain Brassbound's Conversion: tion, 192-3; quarrel with 100, 113, 138, 168, 269; in Alfred Douglas, 193-5; Three Plays for Puritans, 20; public response, 195-6, 248, Ellen Terry's first 'rejection', 268; published, 220; as 27; Stage Society produc• discussion drama, 233; a tion, 97; Masefield 'plotless' play, 269; contributes sea shanties, 123; Baughan's revised opinion, Ellen Terry's second 'rejec• 274 tion', 131; produced at the How He Lied to Her Husband: Court with Ellen Terry, written for Daly, produced 154-6; performed in South in New York, 73, 131; Africa, 249; play's largeness produced at the Court and of vision, 254 the St James's, 139-40; The Dark Lady of the Sonnets: published, 251 contribution to National Jitta's Atonement: 'Translator's Theatre Movement, 242; Note', 69 production and critical reac• John Bull's Other Island: 120,120, tion, 242 139,140, 142,147,157,158, The Devil's Disciple: 7, 71,191; 176,188; Daly's production, Mansfield's success, 8, 83; 74; 'Instructions to first production in England, Producer', 74,132-3; critical 9; in Three Plays for Puritans, reaction, 74; produced at the 20; produced in Vienna, Court, 130-3; critical reac• published in Drei Dramen, tion, 133-4; Shaw defends 68; at the Savoy, 185-6 play, 134-5; popularity, 137, The Doctor's Dilemma: 140,163, 152; career milestone, 138; 190, 241; influences, 38, Royal Command perfor• 158-9; composition and mance, 139; box office Index 303

success, 168; tours Misalliance: 95,123; a pivotal provinces, 189; development play, viii; demolition of the of 'discussion drama', 232; age, x; preface, 'Parents and 'mere talk', 241; a 'farrago', Children', 45; develops 269; publication and royal• 'discussion drama', 233; ties, 251, a 'sixpenny composition and produc• special', 252; Baughan's tion, 233-4; critical reaction, revised opinion, 274 234, 235-7; Shaw's reaction, Major Barbara: 103,138,146,156, 237-8; Walkley's remon• 161,176,188; 'the crime of strance, 239-40; Shaw's poverty', 36; Murray's rejoinder, 240-2 contribution, 113,147-8; Mrs Warren's Profession: 8, 207, produced at the Court, 217; Grein rejects play, 7, 95; 148-9; critical shock, 149, preface, 27, 97-9; the storm of abuse, 149-50; Comstock-Daly fiasco, 75 controversy, 150-2; passim; critical reaction in Beerbohm's 'about-turn', New York, 80; play put on 152-3, 268; moderate box trial, 80-1; as reported by office success, 168; 'a stiff Shaw, 223,227; Stage Society dose of lecturing', 232; a production and publication, 'debate', 269; publication 97; Redford refuses licence, and royalties, 251; 201,205-6; incest a specific Baughan's revised opinion, taboo, 208; licence granted in 274 1925, 230; produced in Man and Superman: 120,121,131, Europe, 248, 249 140,147,153, 157,158, 162, The Philanderer: 188; Grein rejects 164, 178, 188, 189, 214; antici• play, 7, 95; general unpopu• pated in 'Civilization and larity, produced at the the Soldier', 18; preface, 25, Court, 162; box office failure, 27; selective breeding, 40-1; 163; produced in Europe, publishing history, 61-5; 248, 249 critical reaction to book, Press Cuttings: Redford refuses 65-7; Loraine's production, licence, 209, 213; contro• 76; Stage Society perform• versy, 212-15; Chesterton ances at the Court, 99, 142, defends play, 227 143; preface addressed to Pygmalion: 144, 228, 267, 275 Walkley, 136; produced at Saint loan: 177 the Court, critical reaction, The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet: 142-5; a 'golden egg', 168; 208; written for Beerbohm vocal casting, 175; advent of Tree, 209-10; Redford the New Man, 232; refuses licence, 209; ensuing performed in Europe, 249; controversy, 210-12; 'The royalties, 251-2, a 'sixpenny Rejected Statement', 220; special', 252; epic qualities, Samuel draws on Statement, 254; a 'debate', 269 222, 224, 227, 231; The Man of Destiny: Irving's Chesterton defends play, "interest", 7; Daly's produc• 227 tion, 73; produced at the Widowers' Houses: 95,165; Court, 164, 166 produced by Independent 304 Index

SHAW, G, BERNARD - continued 'Who I Am and What I Think', Theatre, critical reaction, Candid Friend, 11 and 18 4-5; published, 6; preface, May 1901, ('Mainly About 253-4 Myself, Shaw Gives Himself You Never Can Tell: 120,143,145, Away, 1939, and 'Who I Am 153,156,157,163,192; and What I Think', Sixteen aborted production at the Self Sketches, 1949), 23-4 Haymarket, 7,144; Stage The Sanity of Art (1908), 28, 83 Society production, 8, 96; 'Smallpox in St Pancras', The Street's appreciation, 9-10; Times, 21 September 1901, Daly's production, 73, 82; 31-2 stage history, produced at 'Mr Bernard Shaw on Smallpox the Court, 141-2; on evening Prevention', British Medical bill, 145; box office success, Journal, 26 October 1901, 168,169; at the Savoy, 185; 32-3 on tour, 189; 1909 revival, 'The Imperial Vaccination 248; royalties, 249 League', The Times, 19 August 1902, 33 TEXTS CITED, PUBLISHED AND 'The Imperial Vaccination UNPUBLISHED (LISTED IN League', The Times, 16 SEQUENCE) September 1902, 33 Cashel Byron's Profession (1886), 2, 'Mr Bernard Shaw on 250, 251 Vaccination', British Medical An Unsocial Socialist (1887), 2 Journal, 18 October 1902, 34 'Blaming the Bard', Saturday 'Vaccination: the Imperial Review, 26 September 1896, 3 Vaccination League and Mr Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant Bernard Shaw', British (1898), 7-8, 68, 73, 205, 206, Medical Journal, 8 November 250, 251, 252, 253 (preface to 1902, 34-5 Plays Unpleasant) 'Mr Bernard Shaw's Last Words', 'Respice, Aspice, Prospice', British Medical Journal, 15 Morning Leader, 1 January November 1902, 35 1901,15-6 'Lost Faiths: Mr Bernard Shaw 'The Conflict between Science Replies', Daily News, 2 and Common Sense', February 1903, 39-45 Humane Review, April 1900, 'The Class War', Clarion, 30 17 September, 21 October, 'Civilization and the Soldier', 4 November 1904, 44 Humane Review, January 'Parents and Children', preface 1901,16-19 to Misalliance (1910), 45 Three Plays for Puritans (1901), 'Does Modern Education preface 20-1, 27; 251 Ennoble?', Great Thoughts, Fabianism and the Empire, October 7 October 1905, 45 1900,17, 49 'An Educational Confession', 'The Robing of G.B.S.', Daily Schoolmistress, 17 November Mail, 1927, 45 7 February 1901, 21-2 'The Educated Working Man', 'G.B.S. Confesses', Daily Mail, New Standards, October 1923, 2 April 1901, 22-3 45 Index 305

The Common Sense of Municipal Mrs Warren's Profession) Trading, February 1904, 47-9 (1902), 97-9 'The Fiscal Policy of the Empire', Dramatic Opinions and Essays Daily Mail, 3 July 1903, 51 (1907), 114, 259 Fabianism and the Fiscal Question, 'The Authors of the Court March 1904, 51-3 Theatre', Criterion 'To-day's Elections: the Frivolity Restaurant, 7 July 1907,123, of the Most Foolish City', 124-5,166,169-70,179-80 Daily Mail, 2 November '"Plays which Irritate": Mr 1903, 53-5 Bernard Shaw Describes His 'Mr Bernard Shaw's Rejoinder7, New Works', Daily Mail, Daily News, 12 March 1904, 30 August 1904,131 56 'Instructions to the Producer', 'County Councilitis', Daily Mail, December 1904, typescript, 27 February 1904, 56-7 British Library, 74, 132 'Mr Bernard Shaw on His 'Mr George Bernard Shaw - A Prospects', St James's Gazette, Conversation: Concerning 5 March 1904, 57 Mr Shaw's New Play, "John 'The Bitter Cry of the Middle Bull's Other Island'", Tatler, Classes', Tribune, 14 and 15 16 November 1904,134 August 1906, 59 '"G.B.S." and His Play [You Never 'A Socialist Programme: The Can Tell}: He Tells How He Gentle Art of Laughs at His Critics', Daily Unpleasantness', Clarion, 9, Mail, 4 May 1900,141-2 16, 23 August 1907, 59 'Drama of the Day [Major 'The Unmentionable Case for Barbara]', Daily Telegraph, Women's Suffrage', 19 October 1905,148 Englishwoman, March 1909, '"Major Barbara"', Morning Post, 59 1, 2 December 1905,151 'You Can't Scare Me!', The New 'The Late Sir and York Times, 27 October 1905, Mr Bernard Shaw', Morning 77 Post, 'The Employment of Children on 4 December 1905,151 the Stage', The Times, 25 'Mr G.B. Shaw's Next Play: Mr March 1903, 85 Archer's Challenge and its 'Royal Opera', The Times, 25 Sequel', Tribune, 3 March 1904 September 1906,159 Sundry other letters to and '"The Doctor's Dilemma": Mr reports in The Times, 1904-6, Bernard Shaw on the 85-6 Original of His "Artist's 'Mr G. Bernard Shaw: The Ten Creed7", Standard, Commandments', 22 November 1906,162 Manchester Guardian, 22 'A Letter to Millionaires', 4 October 1906 March 1909, typescript, 'Dress and the Writer: A Talk British Library, 168-9 with Mr George Bernard 'Bernard Shaw and the Heroic Shaw', World of Dress, March Actor', Play Pictorial, October 1905, 89 1907,186 'Author's Apology' (preface to '"Getting Married": Mr Bernard 306 Index

SHAW, G, BERNARD - continued Report from the Joint Select Shaw on His New Play', Committee ...', H.M. Daily Telegraph, 7 May 1908, Stationery Office, 11 190-2 November 1909, 220-5 'Can you Not Manage?', '"Misalliance": Features of Mr Academy, 30 May 1908,193-4 Shaw's New Play', Daily 'The Shaving of Patshaw', Mail, 8 February 1910, 234 Academy, 6 June 1908,194-5 'Silent Audiences: Mr Shaw's 'Mr Bernard Shaw on His New Ban on Applause', Daily Play [Getting Married]', Daily Mail, 28 February 1910, 237 Mail, 14 May 1908,195-6 'Leaving Aristotle Out', The 'Musical Memos', Star, 18 Times, 23 , October 1889, 204 240-1 'Down with the Censorship!', 'Strauss and His "Elektra"', Saturday Review, 2 March Nation, 12 March 1910, 243-4 1895, 204-5 'General Mourning', The Times, 'Mr Heinemann and the Censor', 12 May 1910, 245 Saturday Review, 2 April Receipt (Royalties Account) 1898, 206 Book, 1899-1910, holograph, 'Mr Bernard Shaw Loses Humanities Research Patience', Topical Times, Center, 247-52 24 November 1900, 206 (1898), 250, 'The Solution of the Censorship 251 Problem', Academy, 29 'Belloc and Chesterton', New November 1907, 207 Age, 15 February 1905, 263 'The Censorship of Plays', 'Mr Bernard Shaw on the Critics: Nation, 16 November 1907, The Authorship of "Fanny's 208 First Play"', Pall Mall Gazette, '"Waste" and the Censor', Nation, 21 April 1911, 271 8 February 1908, 208 'Mr Shaw and the Censor', Scott, Clement, 95 Observer, 23 May 1909, 211 Sherbrooke, Michael, 165 'Dramatic Censorship', The The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet: see Times, 29 May, 4, 6, 26 June SHAW: PLAYS 1909, 211-13 Shorter, Clement, 134 'Banned Play: The Censor's Sketch, The, 128,137,138 Objection to "Press Smith, Winchell, 72, 78, 81 Cuttings'", Observer, 27 June Smyth Pigott, E. F., 199, 204-5, 224 1909, 213 Society of Authors, The, 159 'Statement on the Evidence in Society of West End Managers, Chief of George Bernard The, 227 Shaw before the Southwark, the Bishop of, 228 Joint-Committee ["The Speaker, The, 153, 267 Rejected Statement"], July Stage Society, The, 8, 75, 96-100, 1909, 219, 231 102, 104, 107, 115, 142, 143, 162, 'The Select Committee on the 258; The Stage Society News, 143 Censorship', The Times, Standard, The, 128,162 2 August 1909, 219 Star, The, 2, 5, 83, 84, 95,136,197, 'Minutes of Evidence of the 235, 242, 272, 273, 274 Index 307

Steinbeck, John, 208 Tolstoy, (Count) Leo, 66, 204 Stier, Theodore, 123 Topical Times, 206 Stoker, Bram, 203; Dracula, 203 Tragedy of Nan, The: see Masefield, Stone, Herbert S. & Co., 7, 64, 250, John 251 Trebitsch, Siegfried, 27, 47, 49, 162, Story of My Life, The: see Terry, 186, 248, 249, 257; as Shaw's Ellen German translator, 67-71; Frau Strand Theatre, 8, 141 Gittas SYhne, 69-70 Strauss, Richard: Elektra, viii, 242-5 Tree, (Sir) Herbert Beerbohm, 143, Stravinsky, Igor: Fire Bird, viii 209-11, 213, 227 Street, G. S.: 'Sheridan and Mr Trelawny of the 'Wells': see Pinero, Shaw', 9-10, 96 Arthur Wing Strife: see Galsworthy, John Tribune, The, 59,128,159, 260, 267 Studley, John P., 78 Trojan Women: see Euripides Sudermann, Hermann, 101 Twelfth Night: see Shakespeare, Sunday Times, The, 95, 111, 137, 236, William 267 Two Gentlemen of Verona: see Sutro, Alfred, 75, 96,140, 201, 202; Shakespeare, William The Walls of Jericho, 75; John Two Mr Wetherbys, The: see Hankin, Glade's Honour, 201 St John Symons, Arthur, 251 Vallentin, Hugo, 71, 72, 249 Tammany Hall, 78 Vanbrugh, Irene, 103, 166 Tarpay, W. K.: 'English Dramatists Van Bruggen, C. J. A.: George of To-day', 9,10, 257 Bernard Shaw, 262 Tatler, The, 134,136 Vaudeville (Berkeley Lyceum) Taylor-Platt, E., 249 Theatre (New York), 73 Teleki, Joseph, 248 Vedrenne, John E. (see also Tempest, The: see Shakespeare, W. Vedrenne-Barker) 101, 102-3, Terry, Ellen, 7, 27,105,131, 141, 105, 116,119, 121,124, 131,139, 154-6,162,166, 254, 270; The 147, 151,155, 160, 163,167, 169, Story of My Life, 154 170,179,184,185,188,196, 234 Theatre and Music Halls Bill, 209 Vedrenne-Barker (see also Theatre Regulation Bill of 1843, Vedrenne, John E.), ix, 71, 102, The, 198 105-6,107,108, 111, 115,116,123, Theatrical Managers' Association, 124, 126,127, 131,137, 139, 140, The, 203 145,148,156,163,164,166,167, Thieves' Comedy, The: see 168,169,170,178,179,180,183, Hauptmann, Gerhard 184,185,186,187,188-9,190,194, Thomas, Berte, 104 201, 210, 248, 249, 268 Thorndike, (Dame) Sybil, 175-6 Victoria, Queen, 14 Thorne, Sarah, 104 Vienac, 257 Times, The, 13,14,15,16,17, 30 Votes for Women!: see Robins, passim, 65, 84-6,112,136,161, Elizabeth 185,197-200, 211, 212, 215, 215, Virgil: Aeneid: see Dryden, John 216, 219, 229, 233, 235, 239, 240, Vynne, Nora, 114 242, 245, 267, 269, 272, 273 Times Book Club, The, 159, 252 Wagner, Richard: 204; 'An End in Times Literary Supplement, The, 145 Paris', 162 308 Index

Walker, (Sir) Emery, 203 The Educational Muddle and the Walkley, Arthur Bingham, 65, 95, Way Out, 46 112,115,118,122,124,127,130, Weekly Critical Review, The, 257 152, 233, 238, 239, 242, 243, 268; Wells, Carolyn: 'With Trumpets on Widowers' Houses, 5; compares and with Shawms', 90 Barker to Shaw, 119, 120; on John Wells, H. G, 41, 58,107,159, 202, Bull's Other Island, 133,134; as a 228 theatre critic, 135-7; Playhouse Whelen, Frederick, 96, 203, 215, 227 Impressions, 136; Drama and Life, Whitman, Charles Seymour, 136-7; on Man and Superman, (Magistrate), 80 143-5; The Doctor's Dilemma, 161; Widowers' Houses: see SHAW: The Philanderer, 162-3; Don Juan PLAYS in Hell, 165; Caesar and Cleopatra, Wild Duck, The: see Ibsen, Henrik 187; evidence before Joint Select Wilde, Oscar, 141,147; The Committee, 228-9; Misalliance, Importance of Being Earnest, 141 235; attack on the new drama, Willoughby de Broke, (Lord) 239-40, 241, 269; one of the Richard Greville Verney, 227 better critics, 267; as Trotter in Wills, W. G, 93 Fanny's First Play, 272-3, 274; on Wodehouse, P. G, 266 Fanny's First Play, 274 Wood, (Mrs) John, 101 Walkure, Die: see Hall, Caine Woolf, Virginia, viii Walls of Jericho, The: see Sutro, World, The, 2, 84,159, 267 Alfred World, The (New York), 80 Walpole, (Sir) Robert, 198 Wright, (Sir) Almoth, 158 Walters, (The Rev.) Ensor, 30, 31 Wrinn, (New Haven Chief of Waste: see Barker, H. Granville: Police), 78 Plays Wyndham, (Sir) Charles, 165 Weather-Hen, The: see Barker, H. Granville: Plays Yeats, W. B., 41,129; on John Bull's Webbs, The, 27, 44, 51, 203, 234 Other Island, 130-1,135; promotes Webb, Beatrice, on Man and Blanco Posnet at the Abbey, 212; a Superman, 41, 65; 'G.B.S's indis• fellow 'apostle', 258 cretions', 51; on Shaw's election Yorkshire Post, The (Leeds), 187 campaign, 57-8; on Shaw's rise You Never Can Tell: see SHAW: to public eminence, 90, 247; takes PLAYS Balfour to John Bull's Other Island, Youngest of the Angels, The: see 137, and to Major Barbara, 148; Hewlett, Maurice reaction to Major Barbara, 149, 150, Our Partnership, 149; on '21: see Noyes, Alfred Misalliance, 234, 238 Zangwill, Israel, 228 Webb, Sidney, 46, 49, 51, 55, 56, 57;