If you are interested in contributing scanning equipment or software or other items, please contact Michael Hart at: hart@pobox.comc This Etext was produced by Eve Sobol, South Bend, Indiana, USA HOW HE LIED TO HER HUSBAND by GEORGE BERNARD SHAW PREFACE Like many other works of mine, this playlet is a piece d’occasion. In 1905
Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw
Heartbreak House was far too lazy and shallow to extricate itself from this palace of evil enchantment. It rhapsodized about love; but it believed in cruelty.
Great Catherine by George Bernard ShawWhom Glory Still Adores
GREAT CATHERINE (WHOM GLORY STILL ADORES) GEORGE BERNARD SHAW “In Catherine’s reign, whom Glory still adores” BYRON THE AUTHOR’S APOLOGY FOR GREAT CATHERINE Exception has been taken to the title of this seeming tomfoolery on the ground that the Catherine it represents is not Great Catherine, but the Catherine whose gallantries provide some of the
Dark Lady of the Sonnets by George Bernard Shaw
Scanned & proofed by Ron Burkey (rburkey@heads-up.com) & Amy Thomte. THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS BY BERNARD SHAW CONTENTS Preface How the Play came to be Written Thomas Tyler Frank Harris Harris “durch Mitleid wissend” “Sidney’s Sister: Pembroke’s Mother” Shakespear’s Social Standing This Side Idolatry Shakespear’s Pessimism Gaiety of Genius Jupiter and Semele The
Captain Brassbound’s Conversion by George Bernard Shaw
This etext was produced by Eve Sobol, South Bend, Indiana, USA CAPTAIN BRASSBOUND’S CONVERSION BERNARD SHAW ACT I On the heights overlooking the harbor of Mogador, a seaport on the west coast of Morocco, the missionary, in the coolness of the late afternoon, is following the precept of Voltaire by cultivating his garden. He is
Candida by George Bernard Shaw
ACT I A fine October morning in the north east suburbs of London, a vast district many miles away from the London of Mayfair and St. James’s, much less known there than the Paris of the Rue de Rivoli and the Champs Elysees, and much less narrow, squalid, fetid and airless in its slums; strong
Caesar and Cleopatra by George Bernard Shaw
ACT I An October night on the Syrian border of Egypt towards the end of the XXXIII Dynasty, in the year 706 by Roman computation, afterwards reckoned by Christian computation as 48 B.C. A great radiance of silver fire, the dawn of a moonlit night, is rising in the east. The stars and the cloudless
Back to Methuselah by George Bernard Shaw
source text. In this case, apostrophes were omitted in the essay section but used in the play. BACK TO METHUSELAH A Metabiological Pentateuch by BERNARD SHAW 1921 Contents The Infidel Half Century The Dawn of Darwinism The Advent of the Neo-Darwinians Political Inadequacy of the Human Animal Cowardice of the Irreligious Is there any Hope
Augustus Does His Bit by George Bernard Shaw
This Etext was produced by Eve Sobol, South Bend, Indiana, USA AUGUSTUS DOES HIS BIT: A TRUE-TO-LIFE FARCE GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I wish to express my gratitude for certain good offices which Augustus secured for me in January,1917. I had been invited to visit the theatre of war in Flanders by the Commander-in-Chief: an invitation
Androcles and the Lion by George Bernard Shaw
This etext was produced by Eve Sobol, South Bend, Indiana, USA ANDROCLES AND THE LION BERNARD SHAW 1912 PROLOGUE Overture; forest sounds, roaring of lions, Christian hymn faintly. A jungle path. A lion’s roar, a melancholy suffering roar, comes from the jungle. It is repeated nearer. The lion limps from the jungle on three legs,
An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw
This needs a reading check for spelling, — and other punctuation. Check for “be bad/he had” typos. Thanks! Etext prepared by Dianne Bean of Phoenix, Arizona using OmniPage Pro scanning software donated by Caere. An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw CHAPTER I In the dusk of an October evening, a sensible looking woman of
A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw
A TREATISE ON PARENTS AND CHILDREN BY BERNARD SHAW CONTENTS Parents and Children Trailing Clouds of Glory The Child is Father to the Man What is a Child? The Sin of Nadab and Abihu The Manufacture of Monsters Small and Large Families Children as Nuisances Child Fanciers Childhood as a State of Sin School My