This collection presents a cross-section of Shaw's most important theater work—Mrs. Warren's Profession, Man and Superman, Major Barbara, and Pygmalion. Each play is fully annotated.

"Contexts and Criticism" features all-new material on the author and his work, from traditional critical readings to more theorized approaches, among them essays on Shaw's Fabianism and his alleged feminism. Contributors include Leon Hugo, Sally Peters, Tracy C. Davis, John A. Bertolini, Stanley Weintraub, and J. Ellen Gainor.

  A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are included.

George Bernard Shaw wrote more than fifty plays and continually revised manv of them. This revised Norton Critical Edition represents a cross-section of Shaw's most important theater work: Mrs Warren's Profession, Man and Superman, Major Barbara, and Pygmalion The texts of the plays are based on early Constable editions, and each is accompanied by explanatory annotation.

"Contexts and Criticism." which is completely revised in this Second Edition. presents material on the author and his work, from traditional critical readings to more theorized approaches involving Shaw's Fabianism and his alleged feminism. Contribu- tors include Leon Hugo, Nicholas Grene T. F. Evans, Sally Peters, Jean Reynolds, Tracy C. Davis. G. K. Chesterton. John A, Bertolini. Margery Morgan, Stanley Weintraub. J. Ellen Gainor, and Errol Durbach.

A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are also included.

Preface

The Texts of the Plays

 Mrs Warren's Profession (1898)

 Man and Superman (1903)

 Major Barbara (1907)

 Pygmalion (1914)

Contexts and Criticism

 ON SHAW

Leon Hugo · From Edwardian Shaw: The Writer and His Age

Nicholas Grene · Two Models: Wilde and Ibsen

T. F. Evans · The Political Shaw

Sally Peters · Shaw's Life: A Feminist in Spite of Himself

Jean Reynolds · From Pygmalion's Wordplay

 ON MRS WARREN'S PROFESSION

Anonymous · [Review of Mrs Warren's Profession]

Tracy C. Davis · Apprenticeship as a Playwright

 ON MAN AND SUPERMAN

G. K. Chesterton · [Review of Man and Superman]

John A. Bertolini · Fatherhood and the Self, or the Philosophy of Comedy

 ON MAJOR BARBARA

Margery Morgan · [Shaw's Blakean Farce]

Stanley Weintraub · Four Fathers for Barbara

 ON PYGMALION

J. Ellen Gainor · The Daughter in Her Place

Errol Durbach · Pygmalion: Myth and Anti-Myth in the Plays of Ibsen and Shaw

George Bernard Shaw: A Chronology

Selected Bibliography