PREFACE THE 1992 CONFERENCE: SHAW AND THE LAST HUNDRED YEARS
Bernard F. Dukore 3
PART I: IN THE BEGINNING
1. SHAW DECIDES TO BECOME A PLAYWRIGHT: JULY-DECEMBER 1892
Stanley Weintraub 9
2. THE 9TH OF DECEMBER 1892: GOING TO THE THEATER IN THE NINETIES—A FANTASIA IN THE
MANNER OF SACHEVERELL SITWELL 25
Christopher Newton
3. THE THEATRICAL POLITICS OF ELIZABETH ROBINS
AND BERNARD SHAW 43
Joanne E. Gates
PART II: THE GOSPEL OF BROTHER BERNARD
4. FROM SYMPOSIUM: THE SHEWING-UP OF BLANCO
POSNET AND THE MAN OF DESTINY 57
5. SHAW ON WOMAN SUFFRAGE: A MINOR PLAYER
ON THE PETTICOAT PLATFORM 67
Katherine E. Kelly
6. FROM SYMPOSIUM: FARFETCHED FABLES 83
Jay Tunney
PART III: THE THING THAT HAPPENS
7. THE SHAW FACTOR: RETROSPECTIVE MODERNISM AND BRITISH THEATER 95
Christopher Innes
8. AS KINGFISHERS CATCH FIRE: THE SAINTS AND
POETICS OF SHAW AND T. S. ELIOT 105
Charles A. Berst
9. SHAW AND AMERICAN DRAMA 127
Bernard F. Dukore
10. ARMS AND THE MAN AND THE FEDERAL THEATER:
LOVE AND WAR IN TROUBLED TIMES 145
Michael O'Hara
11. SHAW IN THE IRISH THEATER: AN UNACKNOWLEDGED PRESENCE 153
Nicholas Grene
12. A FABIAN DOWN UNDER: SHAW'S PLAYS IN THE ANTIPODES 167
Rhoda Nathan
13. TRIBUTE TO DAN H. LAURENCE 177
PART IV: COMEDIES OF A GENTLEMAN WHO BECAME ELDERLY
14. HAW AT PLAY 191
Peter Barnes
15. TEXT AND SUBTEXT IN SHAVIAN DRAMA 199
Martin Esslin
16. DECONSTRUCTING HENRY HIGGINS, OR ELIZA
AS DERRIDEAN “TEXT” 209
Jean Reynolds
17. SHAW, OUR CONTEMPORARY?—THE CROOKED ROAD TO GENIUS 219
J.L. Wisenthal
18. WIDOWERS' HOUSES: A PLAY FOR THE 1890s AND THE 1990s 231
Frederick P. W. McDowell
19. SHAW: OFF THE ROCKS 241
Irving Wardle
20. SHAW'S THEATER IN OUR NINETIES: BACK TO THE FUTURE? 255
Montgomery Davis
PART V: AS FAR AS THOUGHT DARE REACH
21. FROM SYMPOSIUM: WHAT MAY LIE AHEAD FOR SHAW
AFTER THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS? 265
REVIEWS AND CHECKLIST
REVIEWS
THE PREFATORY SHAW (The Complete Prefaces, Vol. 1: 1889-1913, ed. Dan H. Laurence and Daniel J. Leary) 279
Richard Nickson
THE STAGE'S GENIAL SCOURGE (Bernard Shaw,
The Drama Observed, ed. Bernard R. Dukore) 283
Alfred Turco, Jr.
HOLROYD HUMORIZED (Bernard Shaw: The Last Laugh, by Michael Holroyd) 291
John A. Bertolini
TWO STRIKES AND A HOMER (Transformations and Texts, by Steven Joyce)
Dan H. Laurence
AN INTERNATIONAL VIEW OF SHAW (Bernard Shaw: On Stage, ed. L.W. Conolly and Ellen M. Pearson) 296
R.F. Dietrich
PEN PORTRAIT OF A RUTHLESS REVEALER (Studies in Bernard Shaw, by Jean-Claude Amalric) 301
Michel W. Pharand
A CONTINUING CHECKLIST OF SHAVIANA 305
John R. Pfeiffer
CONTRIBUTORS 327