The Cook Leopold Profeit
Scene: At the Seaside. Time: August 1896.
ACT I A Dentist’s Operating-Room. Morning.
ACT II The Marine Hotel. Luncheon.
ACT III Sitting-room at the Hotel. Afternoon tea.
ACT IV Sitting-room in the Hotel. After Dinner.
PRINCIPAL WORKS OF BERNARD SHAW*
PLAYS
Widowers’ Houses (1893)
Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant (1898) (including Mrs Warren’s Profession; Arms and the Man; Candida; you Never Can Tell)
Three Plays for Puritans (1901) (including The Devil’s Disciple; Caesar and Cleopatra)
Man and Superman (1903)
John Bull’s Other Island (1907)
Major Barbara (1907)
The Doctor’s Dilemma (1911)
Getting Married (1911)
Misalliance (1914)
Androcles and the Lion (1916)
Pygmalion (1916)
Heartbreak House (1919)
Back to Methuselah (1921)
Saint Joan (1924)
The Apple Cart (1930)
Too True to be Good (1934)
On the Rocks (1934)
The Millionairess (1936)
In Good King Charles’s Golden Days (1939)
NOVELS AND OTHER FICTION
An Unsocial Socialist (1884)
Cashel Byron’s Profession (1885–6)
The Irrational Knot (1885–7)
Love among the Artists (1887–8)
Immaturity (1930)
The Black Girl in Search of God and Some Lesser Tales (1932)
CRITICISM
Major Critical Essays (1930) (including The Quintessence of Ibsenism, 1891; The Sanity of Art, 1895 and 1908; The Perfect Wagnerite, 1898)
Music in London (1931; from serialization 1890–94)
Our Theatres in the Nineties (1931; from serialization 1895–8)
POLITICAL WRITINGS
Fabian Essays in Socialism (edited, 1893)
Common Sense about the War (1914)
The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism (1928)
Everybody’s Political What’s What? (1944)
*Dates are of first English-language publication.
[NB This clarification is essential in Shaw, for some of his works appeared in translation two and three years before English publication. ]
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