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Works by George Bernard Shaw

This is a list of George Bernard Shaw's writings.

Novels

Title¹	Written	Printed	First Publisher	Link
Immaturity	1879	1930 (Ltd. Ed.), 1931 (Std. Ed.)	Constable and Company, Ltd., London	*
The Irrational Knot	1880	1885-7 (Serial); 1905 (Book)	Our Corner (Annie Besant's Socialist Magazine)
Love Among the Artists	1881	1887-8 (Serial); 1932 (Book)	Our Corner (Annie Besant's Socialist Magazine)
Cashel Byron's Profession	1882	1885-6 (Serial); 1901 (Book)	To-Day (Henry Hyde Champion's Socialist periodical)
An Unsocial Socialist	1883	1884 (Serial); 1887 (Book)	To-Day (Henry Hyde Champion's Socialist periodical)

¹All of the novels are included in The Standard Edition of the Works of Bernard Shaw;
a collection published by Constable and Company, Limited (London)

Plays

Title	Written	Premiere	Printed	Remarks
Passion Play	1878			Obscure fragment
Un Petit Drame	1884		1958	One act playlet
Widower's Houses	1892	1892	1893	First successful play
The Philanderer	1893		1898	Woman hunts; man is the prey.
Mrs. Warren's Profession	1894	1895	1898	Created public uproar because prostitution was realistically discussed
Arms and the Man	1894	1894	1898	In war and love, pragmatism beats bravado.
Candida	1895	1897	1898	A woman chooses the man who needs her most over the one who loves her most
The Man of Destiny	1895	1899	1898	Cherchez la femme.
You Never Can Tell	1896	1896	1998	Comedy for comedy's sake
The Devil's Disciple	1897	1897	1901	A melodrama drawn from the American Revolution. Shaw's only full-length play with a solely American locale.
The Gadfly: or The Son of the Cardinal		1898
Caesar and Cleopatra	1898	1906	1901	The game is not romance but politics.
Captain Brassbound's Conversion	1899	1900	1901	The lady's trustfulness can melt any villain's heart.
The Admirable Bashville, or Constancy Unrewarded	1901	1903	1909	Derived from Cashel Byron's Profession but not a stage version of that novel
Man and Superman	1903	1905	1903	Epic flight of a Socialist reformer hoping to escape a woman bent on marriage
Don Juan in Hell: Act III of Man and Superman	1903	1907	1903	A dream sequence revises the Don Juan legend; it is often produced as a separate play.
John Bull's Other Island	1904	1904	1907	An Irishman's view of Edwardian England
How He Lied to Her Husband	1904	1904	1907	Satirizes Candida. The heroine, Aurora, strong as to flesh, finds her spirit weak.
Major Barbara	1905	1905	1907	The online version includes the preface; click on "Essay as First Aid to Critics"
Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction	1905	1905	1905	A one-act farce intended for cheap and easy productions to benefit The Actors' Orphanage
The Doctor's Dilemma	1906	1906	1911	When the doctor can cure only one, either an artistic genius or a mundane but deserving friend, whom should he choose?
The Interlude at the Playhouse	1907	1907	1907	Extremely humorous one-scene playlet
Getting Married	1908	1908	1911	Matrimony from the Shavian point of view
The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet. Sermon in crude melodrama	1909	1909	1911	Random acts of kindness help the world go down.
Press Cuttings	1909	1909	1909	Burlesques the conservative male reaction to the threat of Women's Suffrage
Fascinating Foundling: Disgrace to the author	1909	1928	1926	No in-laws, please!
The Glimpse of Reality A Tragedietta	1909	1927	1926	Reality in the 14th century, perhaps.
Misalliance	1910	1910	1914	Supplement to Getting Married
The Dark Lady of the Sonnets	1910	1910	1914	Fundraiser to help establish National Theatre as memorial for Shakespeare
Fanny's First Play	1911	1911	1914	Shaw called it a "potboiler"
Androcles and the Lion	1912	1913	1914	Martyrdom for fun and profit
Overruled: A Demonstration	1912	1912	1916	Not an argument for or against polygamy
Beauty's Duty	1913		1934	There is no record of this playlet being staged.
Pygmalion	1912-13	1913	1914	From guttersnipe to great lady, with lingering regrets
Great Catherine	1913	1913	1919	Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
The Music Cure	1913	1914	1926	Nonsense, Shaw called it.
O'Flaherty, V. C.	1915	1917	1920	For an Irishman, war is a respite from the stress of homelife.
The Inca of Perusalem	1916	1916	1919	An almost historical comedietta
Agustus Does His Bit	1916	1916	1919	Satirizes bureaucrats
Macbeth Skit	1916		1967	Published in Educational Theatre Journal (1967) with an introduction by B. F. Dukore
Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress	1917	1918	1919	Revolutionary romancelet
Heartbreak House	1913-19	1920	1919	Fantasia in the Russian manner on English themes
Back to Methuselah A Metabiological Pentateuch	1918-20	1922	1921	«Preface» and 5 plays: «In the Beginning», «The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas», «The Thing Happens», «Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman» and « As Far as Thought Can Reach».
A Glimpse of the Domesticity of Franklin Barnabas.	1920	1960	1932	First version of Back to Methuselah's Act II
Jitta's Atonement	1922	1929	1926	Shaw's translation from German of a play by Siegfried Trebitsch
Saint Joan	1923	1923	1924	Shaw's soul shows between the lines
The Apple Cart	1929	1929	1930	The flaws in democracy explored.
Too True to Be Good	1931	1932	1932	Regarding the miseries of wealth.
Village Wooing	1933	1934	1934	Comedietta for two voices
On the Rocks	1933	1933	1934	Unrest during the Grest Depression
The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles	1934	1935	1936	The Useful Will Be Spared
The Six of Calais	1934	1934	1936	No message, just a great story
The Millionairess	1934	1936	1936	Earning money is a talent
Arthur and the Acetone	1935		1936	Broad satire of bureaucracy
Cymbeline Refinished	1937	1937	1938	A revised Act V for Shakespeare's Cymbeline
Geneva	1938	1938	1939	A fancied page of history.
In Good King Charles's Golden Days	1939	1939	1939	A true history that never happened.
The British Party System	1944	Never	1944	This playlet is Chapter III of Everybody's Political What's What?
Buoyant Billions	1947	1949	1947	Comedy of no manners
Farfetched Fables	1948-50	1950	1951	Shaw's thoughts simplified
Why She Would Not	1950			Unfinished play. Shaw died while writing it.