List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chronology
Part I:The social and cultural context
1 Shaw's life:a feminist in spite of himself
SALLY PETERS
2 Imprinting the stage:Shaw and the publishing trade,1883-1903
KATHERINE E.KELLY
3 New theatres for old
CHARLES A.BERST
4 New women,new plays,and Shaw in the 1890s
KERRY POWELL
Part 2:Shaw the dramatist
5 Shaw's early plays
FREDERICK J.MARKER
6 Shavian comedy and the shadow of Wilde
DAVID J.GORDON
7 Structure and philosophy in Man and Superman and Major Barbara
FREDRIC BERG
8 “Nothing but talk,talk-Shaw talk”:Discussion Plays and the making of modern drama
CHRISTOPHER INNES
9 The roads to Heartbreak House
RONALD BRYDEN
10 Reinventing the history play:Caesar and Cleopatra,Saint Joan,“In Good King Charles's Golden Days”
11 Shaw's interstices of empire:decolonizing at home and abroad
TRACY C.DAVIS
12 The later Shaw
T.F.EVANS
Part 3:Theatre work and influence
13 Shaw and the Court Theatre
JAN McDONALD
14 “Please remember,this is Italian opera”:Shaw's plays as music-drama
J.L.WISENTHAL
15 Shaw and the popular context
ROBERT G.EVERDING
Index
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