Committed to exploring the ideas of George Bernard Shaw

Join us for the annual Summer Symposium at the Shaw Festival in Canada.

See the Symposium page for information about the CFP, registration, and accommodations. Tentative Schedule.

Welcome to the International Shaw Society

A community of scholars, theater practitioners, and enthusiasts committed to understanding and promoting the ideas and works of George Bernard Shaw. 

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News & Upcoming Events

ISS Studio Presents

Please join us on June 29 (7pm GMT+1,= 2pm EDT= 11 am West Coast of USA)  for an International Shaw Society Zoom meeting with the authors of the four monographs in Palgrave Macmillan’s Bernard Shaw and His

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2024 President’s Message

As a society of Bernard Shaw enthusiasts, theater practitioners, and scholars, we are dedicated to disseminating the ideas Shaw expressed in his books, both fiction and non-fiction, essays, speeches and particularly in his plays for

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Election Results

This fall the ISS issued a call for nominations for the positions of Recording Secretary and Membership Secretary. There was only one nomination for each position, so there was no need to run a formal

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