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CHRONOLOGY OF SHAW'S WORKS
The following chronology has been provided by Michel Pharand
First date: year(s) written
Second date: year of first performance
Third date: year(s) of publication [in brackets]
1878 My Dear Dorothea: A Practical System of
Moral Education for Females Embodied
in a Letter to a Young Person
of that Sex (ed. S. Winsten) [1906; 1956]
1878 Passion Play (fragment) [1971]
1879 Immaturity (novel) [1930]
1880 The Irrational Knot (novel) [ser.
1885-7; 1905]
1881 Love Among the Artists (novel) [ser.
1887-8; 1900]
1882 Cashel Byron’s Profession (novel) [ser.
1885-6; rev 1889, 1901]
1883 An Unsocial Socialist (novel) [ser.
1884; 1887]
1884 Un Petit Drame (playlet) [1959]
1884/92 Widowers’
Houses 1893 [rev. 1898]
1887-88 An Unfinished Novel (novel fragment) [1958]
1889 Fabian Essays on Socialism (ed. Shaw) [rev.
1908, 1931, 1948]
1890 Ibsen Lecture before the Fabian Society [1970]
1891 The Quintessence of Ibsenism (criticism) [1891;
rev. 1913]
1893 The
Philanderer 1905 [1898]
1893 Mrs
Warren’s Profession 1902 [1898; rev. 1930]
1893-94 Arms
and The Man 1894 [1898; rev. 1930]
1894 Candida
1897 [1898; rev. 1930]
1895 The
Man of Destiny 1897 [1898; rev. 1930]
1895 The Sanity of Art (art criticism) [1895;
rev. 1908]
1895-96 You
Never Can Tell 1899 [1898; rev. 1930]
1896 The
Devil’s Disciple 1897 [1901; rev. 1904]
1898 The Perfect Wagnerite (music criticism) [1898;
rev. 1907]
1898 Caesar
and Cleopatra 1901 [1901; rev. 1930]
1899 Captain
Brassbound’s Conversion 1900 [1901]
1900 Fabianism and The Empire: A Manifesto
(ed. Shaw) [1900]
1901 The Admirable Bashville 1902 [1901]
1901 Man
and Superman 1905 [1903; rev. 1930]
1904 John
Bull’s Other Island 1904 [1907; rev. 1930]
1904 How He Lied to Her Husband 1904 [1907]
1904 The Common Sense of Municipal Trading
(social commentary) [rev. 1908]
1905 Major
Barbara 1905 [1907; rev. 1930, 1945]
1905 Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction 1905 [1905]
[1906] Dramatic Opinions and Essays (theatre
criticism) [Saturday Review 1895-98]
1906 The
Doctor’s Dilemma 1906 [1911]
1907 The Interlude at the Playhouse (playlet) 1907 [1927]
1907-08 Getting
Married 1908 [1911]
1909 The
Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet 1909 [1911; rev. 1930]
1909 Press Cuttings 1909 [1909]
1909 The Glimpse of Reality 1927 [1926]
1909 The Fascinating Foundling 1928 [1926]
1909 Misalliance
1910 [1914; rev. 1930]
1910 Brieux: A Preface (criticism) [1910]
1910 The Dark Lady of the Sonnets 1910 [1914]
1910-11 Fanny’s
First Play 1911 [1914]
1912 Androcles
and the Lion 1913 [1916]
1912 Overruled
1912 [1916]
1912 Pygmalion
1913 [1916; rev. 1941]
1913 Beauty’s Duty (playlet) [1932]
1913 Great Catherine 1913 [1919]
1913-14 The Music-Cure 1914 [1926]
1914 Common Sense About The War (political
commentary) [1914]
1915 The Inca of Perusalem 1916 [1919]
1915 O’Flaherty, V.C. 1917 [1919]
1916 Augustus Does His Bit 1917 [1919]
1917 Doctors’ Delusions; Crude Criminology; Sham
Education [1931]
1917 Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress 1918 [1919]
1917 How To Settle The Irish Question (political
commentary) [1917]
1917 What I Really Wrote About The War (political
commentary) [1931]
1916-17 Heartbreak
House 1920 [1919]
1918-20 Back
to Methuselah 1922 [1921; rev. 1930, 1945]
1919 Peace Conference Hints (political
commentary) [1919]
1920-21 Jitta’s Atonement (adapted from the
German) 1923 [1926]
1919 Ruskin’s Politics (lecture of 21
November 1919) [1921]
1923 Saint
Joan 1923 [1924]
1928 The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism
and Capitalism [1928; rev.
1937]
1928 The
Apple Cart 1929 [1930]
1929 The
[1931] Ellen Terry and Shaw: A Correspondence [1931]
1931 Too
True to Be Good 1932 [1934]
1931 How These Doctors Love One Another
(playlet) [1962]
1931 Pen Portraits and Reviews (criticism) [1931]
1931/34 The
Millionairess 1936 [1936]
[1931] Complete Plays [1931;
rev 34, 38, 50, 52, 65]
[1932] Our Theatres in the Nineties (theatre
criticism) [Saturday Review 1895-98]
1932 The Adventures of the Black Girl In Her
Search for God (story) [1933]
1932 Essays in Fabian Socialism (political
commentary) [1932]
1933 The Future of Political Science in America
(political commentary) [1933]
1933 Village
Wooing 1934 [1934]
1933 On
The Rocks 1933 [1934]
1934 The
Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles 1935 [1936]
1934 The Six of
1934 Short Stories, Scraps, and Shavings
(stories & playlets) [1934]
1936 Arthur and the Acetone (playlet) [1936]
1936 Cymbeline Refinished 1937 [1938]
1936
1936/47 Buoyant
Billions 1948 [1949]
[1937] Music In London (music criticism) [Star 1888-89; World 90-94]
1938-39 “In
Good King Charles’s Golden Days” 1939 [1939; rev. 1947]
1939 Shaw Gives Himself Away: An Autobiographical
Miscellany
1944 Everybody’s Political What’s What (political
commentary) [1944]
1948 Farfetched Fables 1950 [1951]
1939 Sixteen Self Sketches (revision of Shaw Gives Himself Away) [1949]
1949 Shakes Versus Shav (puppet play) 1949 [1950]
1950 Why She Would Not 1957 [1960]
1950 Rhyming Picture Guide to Ayot Saint Lawrence
[1950]
1885 - 88: book reviews in The Pall Mall Gazette
1886 - 89: art criticism in The World
1888 - 89: music criticism in The Star
1890 - 94: music criticism in The World
1895 - 98: theatre criticism in The Saturday Review
[1927] Letters from GBS to Miss Alma Murray (Mrs
Alfred Forman) (
[1931] Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw: A
Correspondence (ed. Christopher St. John)
[1932] More Letters from GBS to Miss A Murray (Mrs
Alfred Forman) (
[1941]
[1949] To a Young Actress: Letters of Shaw to Molly
Tompkins, 1921-1949 (ed. Peter Tompkins)
[1949] Shaw on Vivisection (ed. G.H. Bowker)
[1949] The Quintessence of G.B.S. (ed. Stephen
Winsten)
[1951] G.B. Shaw’s Letters to Gene Tunney (Collier’s Magazine 23 June 1951)
[1952] Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell:
Their Correspondence (ed. Alan Dent)
[1955] Advice to a Young Critic and Other Letters
(ed. E.J. West)
[1955] Shaw on Music (ed. Eric Bentley)
[1957] Bernard Shaw’s Letters to Granville Barker
(ed. C.B. Purdom)
[1958] Shaw on Theatre (ed. E.J. West)
[1960] How To Become a Musical Critic (ed. Dan
H. Laurence)
[1961] Shaw on Shakespeare (ed. Edwin Wilson)
[1961] Platform and Pulpit (ed. Dan H.
Laurence)
[1962] The Matter with
[1963] The Religious Speeches of Bernard Shaw
(ed. Warren Sylvester Smith)
[1963] George Bernard Shaw on Language (ed.
Abraham Tauber)
[1964] The Rationalization of
[1965] Bernard Shaw: Selections of His Wit and
Wisdom (comp. Caroline Thomas Harnsberger)
[1965] Selected Non-Dramatic Writings of Bernard
Shaw (ed. Dan H. Laurence)
[1965] Bernard Shaw’s Ready-Reckoner: A Guide to
Civilization (ed. N.H. Leigh-Taylor)
[1965-88] Bernard
Shaw: Collected Letters (ed. Dan H. Laurence) 4 vols.
[1967] Shaw on Religion (ed. Warren Sylvester
Smith)
[1969-70] Shaw, An
Autobiography (ed. Stanley Weintraub) 2 vols.
[1970-74] Bernard
Shaw: Collected Plays with Their Prefaces (ed. Dan H. Laurence) 7 vols.
[1971] The Road to Equality: Ten Unpublished
Lectures & Essays, 1884-1918 (ed. Louis Crompton)
[1972] Non-Dramatic Literary Criticism (ed.
[1976] Bernard Shaw, Practical Politics (ed.
Lloyd J. Hubenka)
[1978] The Great Composers: Reviews &
Bombardments by Bernard Shaw (ed. Louis Crompton)
[1979] Shaw and Ibsen: ‘Quintessence’ and Related
Writings (ed. J.L. Wisenthal)
[1981] Shaw’s Music: The Complete Musical Criticism
(ed. Dan H. Laurence) 3 vols.
[1982] Bernard Shaw and Alfred Douglas: A
Correspondence (ed. Mary Hyde)
[1982] Playwright and Pirate, Shaw and Frank Harris
Letters (ed.
[1985] Shaw on Dickens (ed. Dan H. Laurence and
Martin Quinn)
[1985] Bernard Shaw: Agitations, Letters to the
Press, 1875-1950 (Dan H. Laurence & James Rambeau)
[1986] Bernard Shaw, The Diaries, 1885-1897
(ed. Stanley Weintraub) 2 vols.
[1986] Bernard Shaw’s Letters to Siegfried
Trebitsch (ed. Samuel A. Weiss)
[1989] Bernard Shaw on the
[1989] Bernard Shaw on Photography: Essays and
Photographs (ed. Bill Jay & Margaret Moore)
[1991] Bernard Shaw’s Book Reviews, Originally
Published in the PMG (ed. Brian Tyson)
[1992] Letters from Margaret: Corr. between GBS and
M Wheeler, 1944-1950 (ed. Rebecca Swift)
[1992] Shaw on Women (ed. Mary Chenoweth
Stratton)
[1993] The Drama Observed (ed. Bernard F.
Dukore) 4 vols.
[1993] Shaw, Lady Gregory and The Abbey: A Corr.
and a Record (ed. Dan Laurence & Nicholas Grene)
[1993] The Complete Prefaces: 1889-1913 (ed.
Dan H. Laurence & Daniel J. Leary)
[1993] The Sayings of Bernard Shaw (ed. Joseph
Spence)
[1994] The Proverbial Bernard Shaw: An Index to
Proverbs... (comp. G.B. Bryan & Wolfgang Mieder)
[1995] Shaw on Music (ed. Eric Bentley)
[reissue of 1955 Anchor Books edition]
[1995] Selected Corr. of Bernard Shaw: Bernard Shaw
and H.G. Wells (ed. J. Percy Smith)
[1995] Selected Corr. of Bernard Shaw: Bernard
Shaw: Theatrics (ed. Dan H. Laurence)
[1995] The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929 (ed.
Dan H. Laurence & Daniel J. Leary)
[1996] Not Bloody Likely! And Other Quotations From
Bernard Shaw (ed. Bernard F. Dukore)
[1996] Unpublished Shaw (SHAW 16, ed. Dan H. Laurence & Margot Peters)
[1996] Bernard Shaw’s Book Reviews, Volume 2:
1884-1950 (ed. Brian Tyson)
[1996] Selected Corr. of Bernard Shaw: Bernard Shaw
and Gabriel Pascal (ed. Bernard F. Dukore)
[1997] Bernard Shaw on Cinema (ed. Bernard F.
Dukore)
[1997] The Complete Prefaces: 1830-1950 (ed.
Dan H. Laurence & Daniel J. Leary) 3 vols.
[1998] Shaw on Theatre: A Half Century of Advices
(ed. Mary Chenoweth Stratton)
[1998] George Bernard Shaw et Augustin Hamon: Les
premiers temps d’une correspondance (1893-
1913) (ed. Patrick Galliou) 4 vols. [4 more vols. in preparation]
[2001] The Matter with Ireland (ed. Dan H.
Laurence & David H. Greene) [second revised edition]
[2000–] T.E. Lawrence: Correspondence with Bernard
and Charlotte Shaw, 1922-1926 (ed. Jeremy
and
Nicole Wilson) vol. 1; vol. 2, 1927
(2003); vol. 3, 1928 (2004) [vol. 4
forthcoming]
[2002] Selected Corr. of B Shaw: Bernard Shaw and
Barry Jackson (ed. L.W. Conolly)
[2002] Selected
Corr. of B Shaw: Bernard Shaw and the Webbs (ed. Alex C.
Michalos & Deborah C. Poff)
[2005] Selected
Corr. of B Shaw: Bernard Shaw and Lady Astor (ed. J.P. Wearing)
Selected Corr. of B Shaw: Bernard Shaw and Musicians (ed. Alan
Andrews)
Selected Corr. of B Shaw: Bernard Shaw and William Archer (ed. Tom
Postlewait)
Selected Corr. of B Shaw: Bernard Shaw and his Publishers (ed.
Michel W. Pharand)
Selected Corr. of B Shaw: Bernard Shaw and
G. K. Chesterton
Bernard Shaw’s Letters to The Times, 1898-1950 (ed. Ronald E. Ford)