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Shaw, George Bernard

Bentley, Eric Russell. Bernard Shaw 1856-1950. New Directions; Norton, Analysis of Shaw's social, philosophical, and dramatic ideas.

Gibbs, A. M. The Art and Mind of Shaw. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1983. Clear discussion of Shaw's work with chapters on each of the major plays.

Gibbs, A. M., ed. Shaw: Interviews and Recollections. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1990. Shaw and his contemporaries on Shaw.

Holroyd, Michael. Bernard Shaw. London: Chatto & Windus, 1988-1992. Acclaimed standard biography. v. 1: 1856-1898: The Search for Love; v. 2: 1898-1918: The Pursuit of Power; v. 3: 1918-1950: The Lure of Fantasy; v. 4: The Last Laugh: 1950-1991; v. 5: The Shaw Companion. v. 1-3 also Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1990-1993.

Laurence, Dan H. Shaw's Music: The Complete Musical Critcism. London: Reinhardt, 1981. Complete three-volume collection of all Shaw's music criticism.

Laurence, Dan H., ed. Bernard Shaw: Collected Letters 1898-1910. London: Reinhardt, 1972.

Morgan, Margery M. The Shavian Playground: An Exploration of the Art of George Bernard Shaw. London: Methuen, 1972. Useful overview of Shaw's work.

Pearson, Hesketh. Bernard Shaw: a Biography. London: Unwin, 1987. Classic 1942 biography reissued with an introduction by Richard Ingrams.

Shaw, George Bernard. Collected Letters, 1911-1925. London: Reinhardt, 1985.

Shaw, George Bernard. Collected Letters, 1926-1950. London: Reinhardt, 1988.

Shaw, George Bernard. Shaw: an Autobiography. Weybright & Talley, 1969-1970. Shaw's public life pieced together from his writings.

Shaw, George Bernard. The Complete Plays of Bernard Shaw. London: Paul Hamlyn, 1965.

Shaw, George Bernard. The Complete Prefaces of Bernard Shaw. London: Paul Hamlyn, 1965.

Smith, Warren Sylvester. Bernard Shaw's Plays: Major Barbara, Heartbreak House, Saint Joan, Too True to be Good with Backgrounds and Criticism. New York/London: Norton, 1970. Excellent compendium of Shaw's major plays and Shaw criticism—a good starting place.

Weintraub, Stanley. The Unexpected Shaw: Biographical Approaches to G. B. S. and his Work. New York: Ungar; London: Lorrimer, 1982. New and revealing insights into his life and work.