Act I In a dentist’s operating room on a fine August morning in 1896. Not the usual tiny London den, but the best sitting room of a furnished lodging in a terrace on the sea front at a fashionable watering place. The operating chair, with a gas pump and cylinder beside it, is half way
Produced by Rick Niles, John Hagerson and PG Distributed Proofreaders THE IRRATIONAL KNOT BY BERNARD SHAW BEING THE SECOND NOVEL OF HIS NONAGE 1905 PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION OF 1905 This novel was written in the year 1880, only a few years after I had exported myself from Dublin to London in a condition
This etext was produced by Eve Sobol, South Bend, Indiana, USA THE INCA OF PERUSALEM: AN ALMOST HISTORICAL COMEDIETTA GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I must remind the reader that this playlet was written when its principal character, far from being a fallen foe and virtually a prisoner in our victorious hands, was still the Caesar whose
hardware or software or any other related product without express permission.] This etext was produced by Eve Sobol, South Bend, Indiana, USA PREFACE TO MAJOR BARBARA: FIRST AID TO CRITICS BERNARD SHAW N.B. The Euripidean verses in the second act of Major Barbara are not by me, or even directly by Euripides. They are by
This etext was produced by Eve Sobol, South Bend, Indiana, USA PREFACE TO ANDROCLES AND THE LION: ON THE PROSPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY BERNARD SHAW 1912 CONTENTS: Why not give Christianity a Trial? Why Jesus more than Another? Was Jesus a Coward? Was Jesus a Martyr? The Gospels without Prejudice The Gospels now unintelligible to Novices
This etext was produced by Eve Sobol, South Bend, Indiana, USA OVERRULED BERNARD SHAW 1912 TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: In the printed version of this text, all apostrophes for contractions such as “can’t”, “wouldn’t” and “he’d” were omitted, to read as “cant”, “wouldnt” and “hed”. This etext restores the omitted apostrophes. PREFACE TO OVERRULED. THE ALLEVIATIONS OF
This etext was produced by Eve Sobol, South Bend, Indiana, USA O’FLAHERTY V.C.: A RECRUITING PAMPHLET GEORGE BERNARD SHAW It may surprise some people to learn that in 1915 this little play was a recruiting poster in disguise. The British officer seldom likes Irish soldiers; but he always tries to have a certain proportion of
Summer afternoon in a cottage garden on the eastern slope of a hill a little south of Haslemere in Surrey. Looking up the hill, the cottage is seen in the left hand corner of the garden, with its thatched roof and porch, and a large latticed window to the left of the porch.
Scanned & proofed by Ron Burkey (rburkey@heads-up.com) & Amy Thomte Misalliance by George Bernard Shaw Notes on the editing: Italicized text is delimited with underlines (“_”). Punctuation and spelling are retained as in the printed text. Shaw used a non-standard system of spelling and punctuation. For example, contractions usually have no apostrophe: “don’t” is given
A COMEDY AND A PHILOSOPHY EPISTLE DEDICATORY TO ARTHUR BINGHAM WALKLEY My dear Walkley: You once asked me why I did not write a Don Juan play. The levity with which you assumed this frightful responsibility has probably by this time enabled you to forget it; but the day of reckoning has arrived: here is
ACT I It is after dinner on a January night, in the library in Lady Britomart Undershaft’s house in Wilton Crescent. A large and comfortable settee is in the middle of the room, upholstered in dark leather. A person sitting on it would have, on his right, Lady Britomart’s writing table, with the lady herself
If you are interested in contributing scanning equipment or software or other items, please contact Michael Hart at: hart@pobox.comc This Etext was produced by Eve Sobol, South Bend, Indiana, USA JOHN BULL’S OTHER ISLAND by BERNARD SHAW Great George Street, Westminster, is the address of Doyle and Broadbent, civil engineers. On the threshold one reads
