John R. Pfeiffer A CONTINUING CHECKLIST OF SHAVIANA

John R. Pfeiffer

A CONTINUING CHECKLIST OF SHAVIANA

I. Works by Shaw

Shaw, Bernard. The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God. Chi- cago: Trafalgar Square, 2007. 75 pp., illustrated. List: $15.95. Not seen.

. Androcles and the Lion. Bel Air, Calif.: Dodo Press, 2007. Paper. List: $10.99. Not seen. Other Shaw titles with this imprint at $10.99 unless otherwise noted: Methuselah ($21.99), Cashel, Dark Lady, Doc- tor's, Getting Married ($12.99), Great Catherine, Heartbreak ($12.99), Ir- rational ($23.99), John Bull, Superman ($14.99), Man of Destiny, Mrs Warren, Perfect Wagnerite, Press Cuttings, Pygmalion, and Blanco Posnet.

. Androcles and the Lion. Edited "for modernity" by George Arthur Lareau (does not apply to other titles listed below). Amazon.com: Kindle ed., 2007. List: $7.99 in August; $1.60 in September. Not retrieved. The "product description" erroneously informs us that "it won the Nobel Prize for literature." Kindle edition titles are a 2007 innovation by Amazon.com. The selling points are ease of use on a specialized "reader" and speed of "wireless via Amazon Whispernet" delivery to the reader. Particulars are available on the Amazon.com home Web site. At least twenty-one Shaw titles are advertised, priced at $1.60 unless otherwise indicated: Annajanska, Augustus, Caesar ($0.95), Candida, Cashel Byron, DeviVs, Doctor's, Fanny's, Great Catherine, How He Lied, Irrational, John Bull, Major Barbara, Preface to Major Bar- bara, Superman, Man of Destiny, Misalliance, Mrs Warren, O Flaherty, Overruled, Press Cuttings, and Pygmalion.

.Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, and Pygmalion. Eastbourne: Gard- ner's Books, 2007. Not seen. Other Shaw titles with this imprint: Methuselah, Caesar, Cashel and Bashville, Doctor's, Dramatic Opinions, Fa-

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bian Essays, Getting Married, Heartbreak Great Catherine and Playlets of the War, Irrational, Love Among the Artists, Misalliance and Dark Lady, On Going to Church, Philanderer, Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant, Quintes- sence, Three Plays for Puritans, An Unsocial Socialist, and The Wisdom of Bernard Shaw.

. Arms and the Man. Ed. J. P. Wearing. London: Methuen Drama, 2008. New Mermaids series. Not seen. One of five Shaw plays to be released in the New Mermaids series of classic plays. The others are Major Barbara, ed. Nicholas Grene; Mrs Warren, ed. Norma Jenckes; Pygmalion, ed. L. W. Conolly; and Saint Joan, ed. Jean Chothia.

. Arms and the Man. Temecula, Calif.: Peacock Books, 2008. List: $20.52. Not seen.

. Aventuras de una negrita en busca de Dios. Trans. Benito Gómez Ibá- nez. Barcelona: Galaxia Gutenberg, 2007. List: $27.05. Not seen. Spanish translation.

. Captain Brassbound's Conversion. Titus Digital Publishing Pvt. Ltd., 2008. List: $12.19. Accessed on Amazon.com. Not seen. Also publishes Superman, Pygmalion, and^4n Unsocial Socialist.

. Cashel Byrons Profession. Cambridge, Mass.: IndyPublish, 2007. List: $46.99. Not seen. Also publishes Devil's Disciple and Doctor's Di- lemma.

. Cashel Byron's Profession. Rockville, Md.: Tark Classic Fiction, 2008. List: $9.99. Not seen.CS.C

. Cashel Byron's Profession; also The Admirable Bashville. Whitefish, MT: Kessinger Publishing, 2007. List: $40.05. Not seen. Also publishes Fabian Essays, Heartbreak, Love Among the Artists, and Plays Pleas- ant and Unpleasant.

. "The Cinema as a Moral Leveller" (June 27, 1914). Reprinted in the New Statesman, May 28, 2007, 62.

. Dark Lady of the Sonnets as Sonnetternas mörka dam. In Shakespeares älskade. Trans. Ulf Liljedahl. Lund: Ellerstrom, 2007. Not seen. Swed- ish translation.

. The Devil's Disciple. Charleston, S.C.: BiblioBazaar, 2007. List: $9.99. Not seen. Also publishes Heartbreak, John Bull, Superman, and Pygmalion. See also More Short Works of George Bernard Shaw, below.

. Don juan in Hell. Mineóla, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 2007. List: $2.00. Also publishes Heartbreak House ($2.00), Major Barbara ($2.00). and Pygmalion ($1.50). No frills paper texts at bargain prices.

. "82 'Irreverent Quotations.'" In Big Curmudgeon. Ed. Jon Wino- kur. New York: Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, 2007. 660 pp. List: $12.95. Save your money.

. George Bernard Shaw Note Book: With 224 Quotes. Niagara-on-the-

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Lake, Ontario: Shaw Festival, 2007. A blank book with a quote from Shaw at the foot of each page.

. Major Barbara. Ed. Nicholas Grene. See Arms and the Man, ed. J. P. Wearing, above.

. Major Barbara. Ed. Philip M. Parker. Webster's Japanese Thesau- rus ed. San Diego: Icon Group, 2008. Not seen.

. Major Barbara. Webster's Afrikaans Thesaurus ed. San Diego: Icon Group, 2008. List: $19.95. Not seen.

. Major Barbara. In Great Conversations 4. Ed. Daniel Born, Donald Whitfield, and Mike Levine. Chicago: Great Books Foundation, 2008. Not seen.

. "Major Barbara Meets Her Maker." Lapham's Quarterly 1, no. 2 (Spring 2008): 169-70. Excerpt from play in an issue subtitled "About Money," beginning with Undershaft: "Cleanliness and respectability do not need justification, Barbara" and ending with Undershaft: "Not at all. I had the strongest scruples about poverty and starvation. . . . Kill them."

. More Short Works of George Bernard Shaw. Vols. I and II. Charleston, South Carolina: BiblioBazaar, 2008. List: $15.99/volume. Volume I includes Androcles, Annajanska, Bolshevik Empress, Arms, Augustus, Pref- ace to Androcles, Preface to Major Barbara, and Candida. Volume II includes Brassbound, Catherine, How He Lied, Inca, Misalliance, O1 Flaherty, Overruled, and Press Cuttings.

. Mrs Warren. Ed. Norma Jenckes. See^rms and the Man, ed. J. P. Wearing, above.

. "A Note on Irish Nationalism" (July 12, 1913). Reprinted in New Statesman, January 14, 2008: 62.

. "On Architecture." SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies 27 (2007): 6-10.

. "Peace and Good Will to Managers." In A Family Christmas. Ed. Caroline Kennedy. New York: Hyperion, 2007. Not seen. "A collection of favorite holiday stories and excerpts."

. The Perfect Wagnerite. Rockville, Md.: Arc Manor, 2008. List: $6.99. Not seen. Also publishes^ Treatise on Parents and Children.

. Pigmalion. Trans. Florian Soblenlowski. Warszawa: TMM Polska/ Planeta Marketing, 2007. Polish translation. Not seen.

. Pygmalion. Ed. L. W. Conolly. See^4m5 and the Man, ed. J. P. Wear- ing, above.

. Pygmalion. Minneapolis: F Q Classics, 2007. List $19.99. Not seen. . Pygmalion. Saint Louis Park, Minn.: Filiquarian, 2007. List: $4.99.

Not seen. . Pygmalion. Webster's Afrikaans Thesaurus ed. San Diego: Icon

Group, 2008. List: $18.95. Not seen.

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. Pygmalion. Webster's Brazilian Portuguese Thesaurus ed. San Diego: Icon Group, 2008. Not seen.

. Pygmalion. Webster's Thai Thesaurus ed. San Diego: Icon Group, 2008. Not seen.

. Quotation from Doctor's Dilemma. In Charles N. Serhan, The Reso- lution of Inflammation. Basel: Birkhauser, 2008. A long quotation on the preference of "nature's remedy," which Serhan's research in some ways recommends (93).

. Saint Joan. Ed. Jean Chothia. See Arms and the Man, ed. J. P. Wear- ing, above.

. Santa Juana. Ediciones Cátedra S.A., 2007. Not seen. Spanish translation.

. "Scene from Man and Superman, Act Four: Jack Tanner and Ann Whitefield." About.Com. Plays/Drama, April 26, 2008, http://plays .about.com/od/monologues/a/superman. Selected by Wade Bradford.

. "Shaw and the Sound Barrier." Virginia Quarterly Review (Winter 1960), http://www.vqronline.org (March 19, 2008). Published on Vir- ginia Quarterly Review's Web site on March 19, 2008, the date of Clarke's death, contains two letters each by Shaw and Clarke in a correspondence between June 25, 1946, and February 8, 1947. The correspondence is in Laurence's Collected Letters, vol. 4.

. "An Unearthed Christmas Letter." The Shavian 10, no. 4 (Spring 2007): 24-26. Barbara Smoker presents a letter entirely in Shaw's handwriting of December 25, 1903, from Maybury Knoll, Woking, Surrey. "The content is of considerable interest," especially to the play The Doctor's Dilemma.

. "Writers on Writing: George Bernard Shaw on Edith Nesbit," letter to Molly Tompkins, February 22, 1925. Reprinted in The Guardian (London), October 13, 2007, 15.

. Xiafa Xiaobonayou mo [Bernard Shaw humor]. Ed. Qian Shen zhu. Taibei Shi, China: Jiu ge chu ban she you xian gong si, 2007. ISBN: 9789574443840; 9574443841. In Chinese.

. You Never Can Tell. Rockville, Md.: Wildside Press, 2007. List: $14.95. Not seen.

II. Books and Pamphlets

Andrews, Julie. Home: A Memoir of My Early Years. New York: Hyperion, 2008. Includes stories of performing in My Fair Lady on Broadway with Rex Harrison. Not seen.

Bertolini, John A. "Wilde and Shakespeare in Shaw's You Never Can Tell." SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies 27 (2007): 156-64.

Brown, Andrew./. D. Bernal: The Sage of Science. New York: Oxford Univer-

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sity Press, 2007. Bernal was lured into a complacent acceptance of Stalin's Russia by a Shaw letter to the Guardian.

Burnett, Archie, ed. The Letters of A. E. Houseman. Oxford: Oxford Univer- sity Press, 2007. Several references to Shaw, including two: (1) Artist John Rothenstein is quoted as telling Shaw "that the secret of his health at his age must be that he has been able to extract ultra-violet rays from limelight" (Houseman to James Barrie, 20 February 1928); (2) Cambridge don John Sparrow, responding to a request to have a book of poems autographed, Houseman writes, "G. B. Shaw lately advised a young man of my acquaintance to specialise in collecting unautographed copies of authors' works, which bid fair to become rarities, so my name probably detracts from the value of this book" (16 October 1934).

Byrne, Sandie. The Unbearable Saki: The Work of H. H. Munro. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Some references to Shaw.

Carpenter, Charles A. "The Strategy and the Bacteriology: Scrutinizing the Microbe in Shaw's Too True to Be Good." SHAW: The Annual of Ber- nard Shaw Studies 27 (2007): 135-55.

Chervysheva, Viktoriia. Bernard Shou: Skandal Zakazyvali? Moscow: OLMA Mediagrupp, 2007. In Russian. Not seen.

Chesterton, Gilbert K. George Bernard Shaw. Kindle ed. Amazon.com, 2007. Not retrieved. Kindle edition titles are a 2007 innovation by Amazon.com. The selling points are ease of use on a specialized "reader" and speed of "wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet" to the reader. Particulars are available on the Amazon.com home Web site. At least twenty-one Shaw titles are advertised, priced at $1.60 unless otherwise indicated. SeeAndrocles and the Lion in "I. Works by Shaw," above.

. George Bernard Shaw. Eastbourne: Gardner's Books, 2007. Not seen.

Coward, Noel. Letters of Noel Coward. Ed. Barry Day. London: Methuen, 2007. Not seen. Includes correspondence with G.B.S.

Crawford, MaryAnn K., and Michel W. Pharand. "Introduction: The Evo- lution of Shavian Consciousness." SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies 27 (2007): 1-5.

Dabashi, Hamid. Masters and Masterpieces of Iranian Cinema. Washington, D.C.: Mage Publishers, 2007. Includes the following information: Simin Daneshvar (b. 1921) is Iran's most distinguished female novelist, married to Jalal Al-e Ahmad, one of the towering intellectuals of twentieth-century Iran. Daneshvar, who went to Stanford, translated extensively from Chekhov, Hawthorne, and G.B.S.

Dabney, Lewis M. Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature. Baltimore: Johns

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Hopkins University Press, 2007. Paper. First published in 2005. Many references to Shaw.

Dailey, Jeff S. Sir Arthur Sullivan's Grand Opera Ivanhoe and Its Theatrical and Musical Precursors: Adaptations of Sir Walter Scott's Novel for the Stage, 1819-1891. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2008. Includes one substantial reference to Shaw whom Dailey reports wrote the only "uniformly negative review" of Sullivan's Ivanhoe. Disgruntled by this, Dailey contends Shaw had little authentic appreciation of music but is respected because of the "wit and petulant style" of his writing about it and because he was a successful playwright whose music criticism has been much reprinted. In this instance, Dailey's loyalty to Sullivan's opera borders on the fatuous, ignoring the fact that Shaw's music criticism is influential because thousands of musicians and music critics respect its analysis - well below the surface of its "style."

Davis, Tracy C. See Saint Joan, below. Delap, Lucy. The Feminist Avant-Garde: Transatlantic Encounters of the Early

Twentieth Century. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Some references to Shaw.

DiGaetani, John Louis. "1. George Bernard Shaw: The Gay Subtext." In Stages of Struggle: Modern Playwrights and Their Psychological Inspira- tions, 9-25. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland and Company, 2008. DiGae- tani begins by acknowledging Sally Peters' s Bernard Shaw: The Ascent of the Superman, which argues Shaw might have been a closet homo- sexual, but he concludes her evidence is not persuasive. Even so, he concludes, "There is a gay subtext to many of Shaw's plays [Mrs War- ren, Arms, You Never Can Tell, Pygmalion, Major Barbara, Man and Super- man, Getting Married, Androcles, Devil's Disciple, Heartbreak, Saint Joan, and Millionairess] and that subject indicates his awareness of the neu- rosis of closeted homosexuality, and his sympathy for people who were forced to live dishonest and thwarted lives thanks to the stupid- ity of English laws of the nineteenth and most of the twentieth centuries. ... He states that people and social realities are much more complicated and that the really interesting people are the masculine women and the effeminate men." Pygmalion "most clearly questions masculinity and suggests the taboo topic of homosexuality."

Dostaler, Gilles. Keynes and His Battles. Williston, Vt.: Edward Elgar Pub- lishing, 2007. Some references to Shaw.

Doyle, Arthur Conan. Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters. Ed. Jon Lellenb- erg, Daniel Stashower, and Charles Foley. New York: Penguin Press HC, 2007. A number of G.B.S. references, especially evidencing the tension between Doyle and Shaw.

Dukore, Bernard F. "G.B.S. Boxed (The Bernard Shaw Collection, Six-DVD Set)." SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies 27 (2007): 213-21.

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Firchow, Peter Edgerly. Modern Utopian Fictions from H. G. Wells to Iris Mur- doch. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2007. Examines the works of Wells, Shaw, Huxley, Orwell, Golding, and Murdoch. Not seen.

Franke, Damon. Modernist Heresies: British Literary History, 1883-1924. Co- lumbus: Ohio State University Press, 2008. "In the late Victorian, Edwardian, and High Modernist times, intellectuals faced the dying belief in a totalizing synthesis of the world. Many fought against a plunge into incoherence and fragmentation in their attempts at uni- versalizing theories or in their invention of substitute aesthetic devices. . . . The discursive exchange among artists, philosophers, and religious thinkers that initially sought to synthesize worldviews culminated in the pragmatic construction of modernist artificial or 'synthetic' wholes." "Part II, the fourth chapter discusses the historical reception of heresy while considering the debate between Shaw and G. K. Chesterton at the Heretics Society, Shaw's play Saint Joan (1924), and the figure of Giordano Bruno. In his play, Shaw draws on his address before the Heretics and recasts heresy as a positive value and claims that religion must eventually respond to an evolving world since he believes in 'the law of change' as underwritten by the gradual reception of heretics and other people he considers forward-minded thinkers and doers. The figure of Joan of Arc presents a unique com- posite illustrative of historical revaluation, for Joan is successively perceived as a hero, a heretic, and finally a saint. The hegemony of orthodoxy comes to the foreground in my discussion of the processes of canonization, rehabilitation, and accommodation used by the Catholic Church in its treatment of her." Franke's twenty-three pages of this discussion are clear and subtle on both Chesterton and Shaw and Shaw and Saint Joan.

Fraser, Kathryn. "Chapter Thirteen: 'Now I Am Ready to Tell How Bodies Are Changed into Different Bodies. . . .'" In Makeover Television: Reali- ties Remodelled, ed. Dana Heller, 177-92. London: I. B. Tauris and Co., 2007. Chapter presents a subsection, "Class Transformation: Pygmalion," beginning "I have tried to show how the makeover is addressed first and foremost to women as relational and consuming subjects: all makeovers present the idea of the unmediated self as a problem, if not the problem, to be remedied by self-commodification. Self-transformation is always promised as a means of self-empowerment on the surface, but the ideology of the makeover is a fiction which narrates self-empowerment as self-commodification, and as giving oneself over to, and actively pursuing, what in the end amounts to conjugal, or what we might call 'relational,' status." "To Higgins, the problem of Eliza's future has, for the most part, been resolved

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by the transformation of her appearance: 'you're what I should call attractive. . . . You go to bed and have a good nice rest; and then get up and look at yourself in the glass; and you won't feel so cheap.' Higgins reiterates here the ideology of the makeover, which promises [falsely] to remedy all dissatisfaction through the commodification of the subject's appearance, the ultimate reward being a flattering self- image and the added 'bonus' of marriage."

Frye, Northrop. "George Bernard Shaw." In Northrop Frye's Fiction and Mis- cellaneous Writings. Ed. Robert D. Denham and Michael Dolzani. To- ronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. Not seen.

Gahan, Peter. "Shaw at 150: The BBC on DVD (The Bernard Shaw Collec- tion, Six-DVD Set)." SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies 27 (2007): 222-29.

George Bernard Shaw: A Catalogue. London: Bernard Quaritch, 2007. No ISBN. OCLC accession number: 1664231 13. Listed in WorldCat. Not seen.

George Bernard Shaw: A Playwright's Biography. Saint Louis, Minn.: Bio- graphiq, 2008. A potted biography (fifty-six pages). Not seen.

Gibbs, A. M. "G.B.S. and the 'Law of Change.'" SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies 27 (2007): 28-41.

Grene, Nicholas. "Shaw and Conversion." SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies 27 (2007): 59-68.

Haines, Kathryn Miller. The War Against Miss Winter. New York: Harper Paperbacks, 2007. Shaw references are a considerable motif (thirty- one instances - many to "Shaw House") in this mystery yarn by aspir- ing actress Rosie Winter whose day job is with a Manhattan detective agency.

Hannavy, John, ed. Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography. New York: Routledge, 2007. Five references to Shaw.

Harper, Sue, and Vincent Porter. British Cinema of the 1950s: The Decline of Deference. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Many references to Shaw.

Hayward, Allyson. Norah Lindsay: The Life and Art of a Garden Designer. Lon- don: Frances Lincoln, 2007. Lindsay knew Shaw relatively well. Sev- eral references, especially 150-51.

Hobbins, Daniel, trans. The Trial of Joan of Arc. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. Paper. First published in 2005. List: $24.95. The record of the 1431 heresy trial.

Holeman, J. K. "86 George Bernard Shaw and Alfred Turco." In Wagner Moments: A Celebration of Favorite Wagner Experiences, 180-82. New York: Amadeus Press, 2007. "His own Wagner Moment having apparently been prenatal, Turco here reconstructs that of his favorite dramatist." Turco reconstructs the "Moment": Chichester Bell, a cousin

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of the telephone's inventor, made G.B.S. take Wagner seriously in 1873: "When I found that Bell regarded Wagner as a great composer, I bought a vocal score of Lohengrin: the only sample to be had at the Dublin music shops. The first few bars completely converted me."

Hubbard, Elbert. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, vol. 13: Little Jour- neys to the Homes of Great Lovers. Charleston, S.C.: BiblioBazaar, 2007. List: $17.99. A reissue of the 1928 William L. Wise edition. Substan- tial references to Shaw on 73-75.

Johnson, Paul. Heroes: From Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Churchill and de Gaulle. New York: Harper, 2007. Nothing in French is compa- rable to Shaw's Saint Joan (74).

Kennedy, Matthew. Joan Blondell: A Life Between Takes. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007. Blondell acted in Candida.

Kershaw, Baz. Theatre Ecology: Environments and Performance Events. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Fifteen references to Shaw; one on Arms.

King, Annie Papreck. "Shakespeare's Shavian Cleopatra." SHAW: The An- nual of Bernard Shaw Studies 27 (2007): 165-74.

Lakin, Warren. Driving Miss Smith: A Memoir of Linda Smith. London: Hod- der and Stoughton, 2007. A successful Radio 4 comedian of the late twentieth century. Her family gave her the complete works of Shaw when she left home.

Lerner, Alan Jay, and Frederick Loewe. My Fair Lady. The musical score. Van Nuys, Calif.: Alfred Publishing, 2007. Not seen.

Li, Kay. Bernard Shaw and China: Cross-Cultural Encounters. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2007. Includes "Prologue: Xiao Bo-na [Bernard Shaw] and China: (Un)Intended Encounters," "1. Bernard Shaw and China: Cross-Cultural Encounters," "2. Shaw, Confucius, and Sir Robert Ho Tung: From Inverse Cultural Appropriation to Cultural Infusion," "3. Shaw's Works in Chinese: From Sinicization to Cultural Translation," "4. The First Chinese Production of a Shaw Play [Mrs Warren]: Difficulties in Cross-Cultural Translations," "5. Re- percussions of the First Chinese Production of a Shaw Play: Factors for Cross-Cultural Adaptations," "6. Shaw's Passage to China: Con- fronting Chinese Nationalism," "7. The Performance of Shaw's Plays in Modern China: Constructions of the Myth of the Nation," and "8. China with a Mind of Its Own: CyberShaw and the Pygmalion Effect." To be reviewed in SHAW 29.

Mann, William J. Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn. New York: Picador Reprint, 2007. Hardcover issue in 2006. Many references to Shaw.

Martin, Andrew. The Blackpool Highflyer: A Jim Stringer Mystery. Fort Wash- ington, Pa.: Harvest Books, 2007. Hardcover in 2004. Shaw reference: "A book had been pitched among the leaves of the fern: a book

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of plays by George Bernard Shaw. I picked it out. 'They're going brown at all the edges,' I said. 'What? The books?' said George. 'Bet- ter get 'em read, in that case.' 'The plants,' I said" (64).

Meisel, Martin. "Shaw, Stoppard, and 'Audible Intelligibility." SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies 27 (2007): 42-58.

Meyers, Jeffrey. Grandes matrimonios en la literatura. Mexico City: Grupo Editiones Tomo, 2007. Spanish translation of Meyers's Married to Ge- nius (2005). In a discussion of nine major writers who were married, includes a chapter on the Shaws.

Moi, Toril. Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism: Art, Theater, Philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. Paper. Hardcover 2006. Shows how unexpected Ibsen's rise to world fame was and the extent of his influence on writers such as Shaw, Wilde, and Joyce.

Morra, Irene. Twentieth-Century British Authors and the Rise of Opera in Brit- ain. London: Ashgate, 2007. Shaw is important. Intelligent credit to his music criticism.

Pfeifer, Barbara. "A Dramatist for All Seasons: Bernard Shaw in Vienna, 1933-1945." SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies 27 (2007): 105-17.

Pharand, Michel W. "Getting Published: Grant Richards and the Shaw Book." SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies 27 (2007): 69-86. See also Crawford, Mary Ann, above.

Porter, Bernard. Critics of Empire: British Radicals and the Imperial Challenge. London: I. B. Tauris, 2008. Paper and hardcover. Seven references to G.B.S.

Porter, Vincent. See Harper, Sue, above. Ritschel, Nelson O'Ceallaigh. "Shaw, Connolly, and the Irish Citizen

Army." SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies 27 (2007): 1 18-34. Ryan, Vanessa L. '"Considering the Alternatives . . .': Shaw and the Death

of the Intellectual." SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies 27 (2007): 175-89.

Saerchinger, Cesar. Hello America: Radio Adventures in Europe. [City not known]: Read Books, 2008. Paper. Hardcover by Houghton-Mifflin, 1938. Chapter 4 is "Get Shaw on Anything" (50-64), to do with radio, that is. Listed on Amazon.com.

Sage, Steven F. Ibsen and Hitler: The Playwright, the Plagiarist, and the Plot for the Third Reich. New York: Basic Books, 2007. Hardcover 2006. Some references to Shaw's championing of Ibsen.

Saint Joan: Shaw Festival 2007 (Shaw Festival production program). In- cludes "Director's Notes" by Deragh Campbell and "Joan the Re- made" by Tracy C. Davis, which notes, "Shaw echoes nineteenth- century views of her as a precursor of the Reformation," and also the origins of the nurturing nationalism in Europe that would be made

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an obscenity by the Third Reich. In addition to summarizing the ways in which Saint Joan was appropriated by "secular factions with mark- edly contrasting agendas," Davis reviews the levels of celebration the ultimate rehabilitation of Joan by canonization in 1920 was given in the United States, Rome, England, and Paris.

Sänger, Margaret. The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger. Ed. Esther Katz, Cathy Moran Hajo, and Peter C. Engelman. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. Paper. Hardcover in 2002. The editors' organization of the materials traces Sänger' s life and work with other reform- ers and activists, including Shaw.

Saslav, Isidor. "Shaw's Letters in Other People's Books: 'The Orphans.'" SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies 27 (2007): 201-12.

Sebba, Anne. American Jennie: The Remarkable Life of Lady Randolph Church- ill New York: W. W. Norton, 2007. Mother to Winston Churchill, she was a friend to Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell.

Senelick, Laurence. "'More Looked at Than Listened To': Shaw on the Prerevolutionary Russian Stage." SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies 27 (2007): 87-104.

Smith, Janna Malamud. My Father Is a Book: A Memoir of Bernard Malamud. New York: Mariner Books, 2007. Malamud read Shaw (43).

Sparks, Julie A. "Dick Dudgeon, Caesar, and Captain Brassbound in Po- land (G. B. Shaw's Unconventional Hero in Three Plays for Puritans, by Malgorzata Bielecka)." SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies 27 (2007): 236-37.

Stetz, Margaret D. Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists. Newark: University of Delaware, 2007. A "lavishly illustrated" catalog of the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, which was on exhibit at the Grolier Club (New York) in 2007, February to April. Two portraits of G.B.S. are included in the exhibition. Not seen.

Turco, Alfred. See Holeman, J. K., above. Van Vuuren, Melissa S., and Angela Courtney. "George Bernard Shaw (26

July 1856-2 November 1950)." In Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 332, 186-205. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2007. This article in a volume titled "Nobel Prize Laureates in Literature" is deficient in major ways: It does not note Charles A. Carpenter's bibliography of secondary sources on Shaw; the International Shaw Society and its Web site; the periodicals devoted to Shaw; the societies in Ireland, Japan, India, England, and the United States; or one of the world's major Shaw repositories in the archive at the University of Guelph, Ontario. To the Guelph collection, which includes materials from the Shaw Festi- val, the Hamon Collection, and the Dan Laurence Collection, will soon be added Leonard Conolly's important "Audio-Visual Shaw"

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collection. The Guelph theater archives as a whole are named the "L. W. Conolly Theatre Archives."

Watts, Alan W. In My Own Way: An Autobiography. Novato: New World Li- brary, 2007. First edition in 1972. A very popular personality and writer in the U.S. zen movement in the mid-twentieth century. He read Shaw.

Weintraub, Stanley. "King Magnus and King Minus: A Play and a Playlet." SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies 27 (2007): 1 1-27.

. "More Shaw on the Great War (What Shaw Really Wrote About the War, edited by J. L. Wisenthal and Daniel O' Leary)." SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies 27 (2007): 230-32.

Welcome to the Shavian World. Ed. the Bernard Shaw Society of Japan (BSSJ). Tokyo: Bunkashobo-Hakubunsha, 2006. In Japanese. "A guidebook ... to commemorate the playwright's 150th birth year. Although he was fairly popular before World War II, Shaw is far from popular in Japan today; his plays are seldom produced - once in nearly ten years or so - and most of the translations of his works are out of print. Probably Shaw is only slightly known by the public as the author of the original play for My Fair Lady.

"The book [is] ... to reintroduce Shaw to the Japanese in the 21st century. The members of the BSSJ would like to show what he wrote, what he did, and what influence he had on other writers and the world. We also hope that this book will help young people, especially university students, to become interested in Shaw and to start reading his plays."

The contents are written by a number of Japanese Shaw scholar contributors, in five chapters, which include a chapter with individual short discussions of twenty of Shaw's plays and his books on Wagner and Ibsen. Contributors are Tetsuo Anzai, Taketoshi Furomoto, Toshihiro Iida, Tetsuya Isobe, Kenji Kono, Junko Matoba, Hisashi Morikawa, Minoru Morioka, Masako Obata, Mariko Oe, Masafumi Ogiso, Tatsuo Otsuka, Ryuichi Oura, Totaro Shimamura, Kiyoshi Shinkuma, and Ryuichi Suzuki.

Wilson, Edmund. Edmund Wilson: Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s and 1940s: The Triple Thinkers, The Wound and the Bow, Classics and Commercials, Uncollected Reviews. Library of America #177. Ed. Lewis M. Dabney. New York: Library of America, 2007. At least eighty-one pages with references to Shaw.

Wise, Ivan. "The Voice of Shaw (The Spoken Word, Two-CD Set, by Bernard Shaw)." SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies 27 (2007): 233-35.

Womack, Kenneth. Long and Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles. London: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2007. In the 1960s, Paul McCartney auditioned for the role of Warwick in

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the Liverpool Institute's production of Saint Joan and became morti- fied when he was relegated to a minor role.

Wyke, Maria, ed. Julius Caesar in Western Culture. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007. Also issued by Colchester: Granta Books, 2007. Many references to Shaw.

III. Periodicals

Allen, Brooke. "Heartbroken Wrecks" review of Roundabout Theater (New York) production of Heartbreak. New Criterion 25, no. 3 (Novem- ber 2006): 37.

Als, Hilton. "Love for Sale: A Revival of Pygmalion" review of Roundabout Theater (New York) production. New Yorker, October 29, 2007, 98-99.

Amalric, Jean-Claude. Review of A. M. Gibbs's Bernard Shaw. Études Angla- ises 60, no. 2 (April-June 2007): 242-44.

"Arms and the Man" production announcement for Rude Guerrilla The- ater (Santa Anna, California). Back Stage West 14, no. 48 (November 29, 2007): 29.

Bellafante, Ginia. "The Life of a Scullery Maid or Factory Slave? No Thanks," review of Berkshire Theater (Stockbridge, Mass.) production of Mrs Warren. New York Times, August 28, 2007, B6.

Billington, Michael. "Major Barbara" review of Olivier Theatre (London) production. Guardian, March 5, 2008, Arts section.

. "Quadruple Bill," contains review of the Orange Tree Theatre (Richmond) production of Shakes vs. Shav. Guardian Unlimited, June 13, 2007, Arts section.

Blankenship, Mark. "The Devil's Disciple" review of the Irish Repertory Theater production. Variety 409, no. 6 (December 24, 2007): 25.

Bows, Bob. "Her Husband or a Younger Man? Shaw's 'Candida' Must De- cide," review of the Germinal Stage (Denver) production. Denver Post, February 15, 2008, F 16.

Brantley, Ben. "Forecast: Rain in Spain, with No Chance of Song," review of American Airlines Theater (Manhattan) production of Pygmalion. New York Times, October 19, 2007, B21-22.

Bullock, Ken. "The Theater: A Panoply of Strange Customers at the Rep," review of the Berkeley Repertory (Calif.) production of Heartbreak. Berkeley Daily Planet, July 9, 2007, http://www.berkeleydaily.org.

Bushe, Andrew. "How Dev [Taoiseach, Eamon de Valera] Blew Our Chance to Own My Fair Lady." Daily Mail, December 28, 2007, 21. Recently opened records show that Shaw made the offer to the taoiseach in discussions between 1945 and 1947. The enormous royalties went to other beneficiaries.

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Byrne, Terry. "A Passion Unfolds in Letters Between a Dynamic Duo," review of Gloucester (Mass.) Stage Company production of Dear Liar. Boston Globe, July 25, 2007, F3.

Carter, Alice T. "Dialects Play Big Role in My Fair Lady," review of Benedum Center (Pittsburgh) production. Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, September 16, 2007.

Carter, John. "Heartbreak House Will Be Staged on Jacksonville University [Florida] Campus," production announcement. Florida Times Union, September 29, 2007, K9.

Cavanaugh, Jack. "Polly Lauder Tunney, 100, Fighter's Widow, Dies." New York Times, April 15, 2008, "Other Sports" section. The wife of Gene Tunney and mother of Jay Tunney, who has pursued an academic and personal interest in Shaw, who was a good friend to his father.

Chamberlain, Adrian. "Chemainus [Theatre, Victoria, Canada] Tackles Saint Joans Paradox," production review. Times Colonist, April 20, 2008.

Chappelow, Allan. "Then and Now," a reprint of the December 22, 1961, review by Lawrence Irving of Chappelow's Shaw the Villager and Human Being. TLS, February 8, 2008, 16. The trial for the 2006 murder of Chappelow began in early February 2008.

Clarke, Arthur. "Shaw and the Sound Barrier." Virginia Quarterly Review (Winter 1960), http://www.vqronline.org (March 19, 2008). Clarke died on March 19, 2008, and the Virginia Quarterly Review put this article of Shaw's correspondence with Clarke on its Web site as part of a memorial discourse. See also "Shaw and the Sound Barrier," in I. Works by Shaw, above.

Cohen, Howard. "Humor Keeps the Lady Fresh," review of Miami's Car- nival Center for the Performing Arts production of My Fair Lady. Miami Herald, December 19, 2007.

Cohen, Patricia. "The Theatrical Katherine Hepburn in Journals and Let- ters." New York Times, October 30, 2007, http://www.nytimes.com/ 2007/1 0/30/theater/30kate.html?. Hepburn read Shaw from an early age, encouraged by her parents. This article is a feature on theater- related materials forming a gift to the New York Public Library, four years after her death. One letter is from Lawrence Langner of the Theatre Guild, who, with his wife Armina, was trying to get Shaw to sign off for Hepburn on a production of Millionairess . Langner repre- sented the meeting as a script:

GBS: What sort of an athlete is Kate? She had to do judo. That's what you call jiu-jitsu.

Armina: She a very good athlete.

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GBS: (not hearing correctly) I know she's a good actress. I mean is she strong?

Armina: Is she strong? why, she gets up and plays tennis every morning. She's one of the most athletic girls I know. She's ter- rific.

GBS: Then I think its dangerous for her to play the part. LL (getting a word in edgeways): Why? GBS: Dangerous for the actor she's doing the judo with. She'll

probably kill him. LL: Oh, no, GBS. She's a very tender-hearted girl. She wouldn't

kill another actor.

Coutts, John. "Letters to the Editor: Major Barbara.11 TLS, April 4, 2008, 6. A footnote remark on Lucie Sutherland's March 21 TLS review of Barbara, noting the implications of Shaw's non-Christianity.

Craig, Pat. "Current Off-Broadway Hit Headline Aurora Theatre's [Berke- ley] Season," review of Devil's Disciple. Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, Calif.), March 21, 2008.

. "Shaw's Powerful Superman Soars," review of California Shake- speare Theater production. Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, Calif.), July 10, 2007.

. "Traveling Jewish Theatre Gives Dead Mother Her Due." Mercury News (San Jose), January 18, 2008, http://www.mercurynews.com. David Greenspan's play is in part a "send-up of Shaw's Don juan in Hell, with Alice B. Toklas as either the devil or just a nice lady at the Styx Ferry terminal."

Dabkowski, Colin. "Life of Joan: Tara Rosling Embraces the Role of the Martyr," review of Shaw Festival's Saint Joan. Buffalo News, May 11, 2007, G15.

Daniels, Anthony. "The Cure for Bernard Shaw." New Criterion 26, no. 2 (October 2007): 4-9. Daniels seems to identify himself as a medical doctor. The following response to the article by Stanley Weintraub is with permission: "It is a piece in ignorant schoolboy humor about Shaw's eccentricities in medical and dress matters - largely on vacci- nation and Jaeger clothing - which to this idiot invalidate all of Shaw writings. He seems not to know, for example, that Shaw's anti-vaccina- tion polemics (obviously silly) arose from getting smallpox after being vaccinated. In any case, Shaw's health idiosyncrasies certainly short- ened his life, as he didn't make it to 95. And few if any of them nega- tively impact his plays, of which Daniels is largely ignorant. Still, he was 'cured' of his admiration for Shaw. Daniels should write learnedly equivalent trashing pieces on Newton, Darwin, Dr. Johnson, Tolstoy, Rossetti, Einstein, and other eccentrics. He has a book there."

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Delaney, Frank. Tipperary: A Novel. New York: Random House, 2007. The early twentieth-century civil war in Ireland is the setting for the novel's embedded story of the itinerant healer Charles O'Brien. He seeks advice from W. B. Yeats and Shaw.

Dietrich, Richard F. Review of L. W. Conolly's edition of Mrs Warren's Pro- fession. University of Toronto Quarterly 77, no. 1 (2008).

D'Souza, Karen. "Shaw Can Still Be Shocking," review of Berkeley (Calif.) Shotgun Players Mrs Warren production. San Jose Mercury News, March 26, 2008.

. "A Superlative Take on Shaw: Man and Superman Captures Play- wright's Biting Wit," review of the California Shakespeare Theater (Berkeley) production. San Jose Mercury News, July 19, 2007.

Eck, Michael. "Laughs Missing from Shaw Classic," review of Theatre Company at Hubbard Hall (Albany, N.Y.) production of Heartbreak. Albany Times Union, March 11, 2008, E7.

Einsohn, H. I. Review of Kay Li's Bernard Shaw and China. Choice, April 2008: 1338.

Evans, Lloyd. "Water Torture," includes review of Olivier Theatre (Lon- don) production of Saint Joan. Spectator, July 21, 2007, 46.

Flitton, Stuart. "The Shavian Art of Letters to the Times,1' review of Ronald Ford's edition of Shaw's letters. The Times, June 30, 2007, 80.

Forn, Juan. "El otro, el mismo. Cuando Frank Harris retrato a G. B. Shaw." Revista de Occidente 314-15 (July 2007): 195-205. In Spanish. Not seen.

Fox, Margalit. "Dan H. Laurence, 87, Bibliographer and George Bernard Shaw Scholar, Dies." New York Times, February 10, 2008, A34. An obituary article for Dan H. Laurence.

Gahan, Peter. Review of J. L. Wisenthal and Daniel O'Leary's edition of Shaw's writing on the war. English Literature in Transition 50, no. 3 (Summer 2007): 333-34.

Geier, Thorn. "Language Barrier," review of Broadway Theater production of Pygmalion. Entertainment Weekly 962 (November 2, 2007): 70.

Hall, Peter. "A Shaw Thing Peter Hall, Now Directing a New [Theatre Royal, Bath] Production of Pygmalion, Reflects on Its Writer's Genius for Mixing the Comic and the Serious." Financial Times, June 16, 2007, 15. "Shaw pursued laughter as a way of being taken seriously."

Hurwitt, Robert. "Tragicomic Heartbreak Tilts Toward Laughter," review of the Berkeley Repertory Roda Theatre production. San Francisco Chronicle, September 7, 2007, El.

Hwang, Hoonsung. "The Plot Structure of George Bernard Shaw's Didac- tic Plays Influenced by Ibsenism." Journal of Modern British and Ameri- can Drama 19, no. 2 (2006): 147-68. In Chinese. Selection from the English abstract: "Shaw's contemporary stage is inundated with cheap

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romantic comedies fettered by the convention of Well-made play. In an attempt to debunk this 'ridiculous' convention, Shaw proposes to emulate Ibsen's dramaturgy in terms of 'discussion' and 'naturalism,' which would guarantee to elevate the role of stage to 'a temple of the Ascent of Man' like a church or school. His dramatic experiment under the tutelage of Ibsenism is pervasive in most of the significant works in his dramatic career: ranging from those included in Plays Unpleasant {Widower' Houses, The Philanderer, Mrs Warren's Profession) to those discussion scenes in Saint Joan, Heartbreak House, and Man and Superman. In a sense, Shaw gives up the process of plot develop- ment while enjoying the digression of 'cerebral capers in inconsider- ate exuberance.'

"In this essay, I have made a comparative analysis of Shaw's Pygmalion and Ibsen's A Doll's House with a view to illuminating the relationship of influence as well as the nature of modernity on stage at the turn of this century. Focused on a single issue, i.e., Nora's battle to find herself, the discussion initiated by Nora in A Doll's House is impregnated with dramatic ironies and trenchant criticism of the contemporary structure of patriarchy. However, diluted and contami- nated by Eliza's romantic sentiment toward Higgins, the discussion transpiring between Eliza and Higgins is insipid and unconvincing. In a final analysis, the introduction of discussion in Pygmalion falls short of achieving didactic purpose or dramatic pleasure, which has canonized A Doll's House as world masterpiece."

Innes, Christopher. Review of A. M. Gibbs's Bernard Shaw. Victorian Studies 49, no. 2 (Winter 2007): 374-77.

"In Passing: Deborah Kerr, 86, Actress." Maclean's, November 5, 2007, 6. Kerr's first screen role was in the 1941 production of Major Barbara.

Jang, Lei-Hee. "Shaw and Galtonian Eugenics in Victorian Britain: Breed- ing Superman in Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman." Journal of Mod- ern British and American Drama 20, no. 3 (2007): 225-50. In Chinese. Selection from the English abstract: "Examines Developments in Ber- nard Shaw's scientific and intellectual thinking on evolution and eugenics during the Victorian period comparing these with how his contemporaries reflect changes in thought on the subject and related issues but also explores how Shaw's ideas on eugenics are perceived in his Man and Superman. Shaw develops the Galtonian eugenic idea of improving the human race through selective reproduction to create a superior man with his view of the eugenic breeding of the superman. ... In this regard, real social progress can be achieved only through every individual's evolution into a superman."

Johnson, Andrew. "The Extraordinary Case of Britain's Most Secret Mur- der Trial." Independent.com.uk, January 27, 2008, http://www.inde

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pendent.co.uk/news. More on the extraordinary developments in the trial of the accused murderer of Alan Chappelow in June 2006, with some details of Chappelow's personality in the last years of his life.

Jones, Chris. "Houses Has Laughs, but Little Social Relevance," review of the Timeline Theatre Company production of Widowers' Houses. Chi- cago Tribune y May 9, 2007.

. "Our Enemies' Playwright [Yussef] El Guindi Has Read His Shaw." ChicagoTribune.com, March 14, 2008, http ://www. Chicago tribune.com/entertainment. Guindi says, "I'm a big fan of George Bernard Shaw." Jones says, "Our Enemies: Lively Scenes of Love and Combat . . . [is] gutsy and whip-smart, the play is about the contemporary Arab- American experience and, indeed, the immigrant experience in general. And it is, most assuredly, Shavian."

. "A Show's a Show, but Fests Are High Fashion." Chicago Tribune, January 1 1, 2008, Entertainment section. The 2007 Shaw Festival season production oí Saint Joan visits Chicago's Navy Pier venue through January 20, 2008.

. "Writer's Theatre [Chicago] Lands Two World Premieres." Chi- cago Tribune, April 1, 2008. Production announcement of new musical version of Candida: music by Josh Schmidt, lyrics by Jan Tranen, di- rected by Michael Halberstam.

Kennedy, Louise. "At the Publick [Theatre (Boston)], A Witty Poke at Hy- pocrisy" review of Misalliance . Boston Globe, July 13, 2007, D4.

. "This Fair Lady Is Easy to Love," review of the Opera House (Bos- ton) production. Boston Globe, February 8, 2008, D5.

Koontz, John P. "Mozart and Shaw." Independent Shavian 44, no. 3 (2006): 70-73. Mozart's Giovanni, for example, "does not deny, he does more than that - he defies. And this defiance takes on a heroic form. . . . With Shaw the stakes are simply too low. . . . For Mozart and for his audience, the arc of Giovanni's life and death is truly spec- tacular. This is something Goethe immediately grasped. But Shaw never did. ... He regarded the tale of Don Juan as one unfortunate misunderstanding. Blind to the defiant, to the heroic, he was left with the merely comic."

Krystal, Arthur. "Annals of Letters: Age of Reason: Jacques Barzun at One Hundred." New Yorker, October 22, 2007, 94-103. A celebration of Barzun that quotes one of Barzun's many comments on G.B.S.: "Shaw knows at any moment, on any subject, what he thinks, what you will think, what others have thought, what all this thinking entails. . . . Shaw is perhaps the most consciously conscious mind that has ever thought - certainly the most conscious since Rousseau; which may be why both of them often create the same impression of insincerity amounting to charlatanism."

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Levitt, Paul. "Justice and Salvation in Major Barbara.'1 The Shavian 10, no. 4 (Spring 2007): 8-11. "If. . . the [apparently incoherent] second act of [Barbara] is viewed as a dialectic that pits justice, as found in the Old Testament and classical Greece, against salvation, as found in the New Testament, then the second act presents a superb and coherent thesis and antithesis that find their synthesis in the third act, where we learn that salvation can be realized only through the justice found in a Fabian society."

Li, Kay. Review of A. M. Gibbs's Bernard Shaw. English Studies 88, no. 6 (December 2007): 736-37.

Lowry, Mark. "So Timely, You'd Never Guess It's 100 Years Old," review of the Stage West (Fort Worth) production of Major Barbara. Fort Worth Star-Telegram, March 24, 2008.

McCarter, Jeremy. "One Cheer for the Roundabout [Theatre (New York)]: Pygmalion Shows Exactly What the Company Should Be Doing . . . ," review. New York, October 29, 2007, 126.

McSmith, Andy. "Shaw and the Saint [Joan] Who Brought Him Back to Life." The Independent (London), July 21, 2007. A feature piece on the revival of Joan at the Olivier Theatre, which briefly picks up the story of the decline of Shaw's currency after 1950 and includes John Os- borne's 1977 bizarre insult: "It is clearer to me than ever that Shaw is the most fraudulent, inept writer of Victorian melodramas ever to gull a timid critic or fool a dull public. . . . He writes like a Pakistani who had learnt English when he was 12. ... I have read these plays, watched them, indeed toured as an actor in them - they are posturing and wind and rubbish."

Millard, Rosie. "Saints and Sinners," review of the Olivier Theatre (Lon- don) production of Joan. New Statesman, July 23, 2007, 46.

Milmo, Cahal. "Millionaire Author 'Was Killed for His Identity.'" The In- dependent, February 2, 2008, http://www.independent.co.uk. Addi- tional details on the murder of Alan Chappelow in June 2006.

Mizell, Leslie. "'Mrs Warren Showing Its Age but Remains Solid," review of the Triad Stage (Greensboro, N.C.) production. News and Record (Piedmont, N.C), February 3, 2008, B7.

Muckian, Michael. "Misalliance Is Rich Comic Stew," review of the Ameri- can Players Theatre (Spring Green, Wise.) production. Capital Times, June 25, 2007, B8.

"My Fair Lady," AAODS Junior Section (Cardiff, Wales) production announcement. Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), November 23, 2007, 8.

Nathan, Rhoda. "Major Barbara: Plot Synopsis; Critical Essay: He Knows Nothing and Thinks He Knows Everything." In Guide to the Seasons Plays, 2007-2008 Season. Washington, D.C.: Shakespeare Theatre, 2007. Not seen.

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"Obituary: Joseph Weizenbaum." New York Times, March 13, 2008, A20. Weizenbaum invented a once-famous conversational computer program, Eliza, which foreshadowed the potential of artificial intelli- gence. He named it for Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion, especially because it did appear to give a computer the unlikely ability to think when few believed such a capability possible.

O'Hara, Michael M. Review of A. M. Gibbs's Bernard Shaw. Theatre History Studies 27 (2007): 143-46.

Ouzounian, Richard. "Classic Makeovers: [Des] McAnuff Takes on the Bard [and] Shaw," production announcement by the Stratford Shake- speare Festival of the season's mounting of Romeo and Caesar. Variety, August 27, 2007, 120.

Page, Chris. "Two E. V. Plays Civilize the Opposite Sex," in part a review of the Mesa Arts Center (Mesa, Ariz.) production of Pygmalion. Tribune (Mesa), April 6, 2008.

"[Paula] Prentiss at BoarsHead Theatre [Lansing, Mich.]," production announcement of Mrs Warren. Grand Rapids Press, June 3, 2007, C10.

Pharand, Michel W. Review of A. M. Gibbs's Bernard Shaw. Modern Lan- guage Review 102, no. 4 (October 2007): 1 149-50.

The Philanderer: Shaw Festival 2007 (Shaw Festival production program). Includes "Director's Notes" by Alisa Palmer and "The Ibsen Factor" by Ann Wilson, who comments, "The broad terms of the play, a study of how men and women fashion roles for themselves, retains currency." Wilson also reviews the influence of Ibsen on William Archer and Elizabeth Robins and concludes, "Shaw, Archer, and Robins cir- culated in the same milieu of political activism. For each, Ibsen was important: for all, as a playwright who challenged Victorian certaint- ies; for Shaw, as a theatrical and political inspiration; for Archer, as a poet; for Robins, as a fellow artist. And for the Shaw Festival [Ibsen is] a Shavian contemporary with a canon of great plays for the reper- toire."

Rahim, Sameer. "She'd Stake Her Life on It," review of Olivier Theatre (London) production oí Saint Joan. TLS, July 27, 2007, 16.

Redman, Bridgette. "Front Row Center: Resolve to Embrace the Arts in 2008." The Hub: Lansing State Journal, January 3, 2008. Note that in the Lansing, Michigan, area, there were at least five Shaw productions in 2007: Doctor's Dilemma, Saint Joan, Methuselah, Mrs Warren, and Pyg- malion.

. "Front Row Center: Shaw Feast Continues at Michigan State [Uni- versity, Lansing]," Fairchild Theatre production announcement of Pygmalion. The Hub: Lansing State Journal, October 5, 2007.

"Review of Reviews: Pygmalion,11 review(s) of the American Airlines The- ater (New York) production. The Week, November 2, 2007, 28.

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Roche, Anthony. Review of Peter Gahan's Shaw Shadows. Irish University Review 37, no. 2 (Autumn-Winter 2007): 586-89.

Root-Bernstein, Robert. Review of David R. Riddle's Brain Aging: Models, Methods, and Mechanisms (2007). Journal of the American Medical Associa- tion 298, no. 23 (2007): 2798-99. Shaw (94) is a candidate case, along with Grandma Moses (101) and Madame Calment (122).

Roy, Emil. "G. B. Shaw's Heartbreak House and Harold Pinter's The Home- coming: Comedies of Implosion." Comparative Drama 41, no. 3 (Fall 2007): 335-48. "In Heartbreak House and Pinter's work, both playwrights have not so much abandoned the hackneyed conventions of the well-made, three-act play as they have hollowed it out, slowed its pace and sought poetic, highly evocative language and action. They build their mastery of stagecraft on the ruins of earlier dramatic con- trivances designed either to hide their often flimsy plotting ... or to be parodied, most brilliantly in much of Shaw and Oscar Wilde. . . . Shaw still clings to the pretense that his characters are artfully con- structed amalgams of opposites, complicated but knowable. For his part Pinter affirms a deeply rooted uncertainty principle regarding the knowability of his characters indebted as much to his social ambi- ence as to Beckett. . . . Shaw's outdated social distinctions have not so much disappeared in The Homecoming as they have been posited, then undermined and negated."

Schulman, Michael. "The Boards: You Say Potato." New Yorker, October 22, 2007, 60-62. A warm-up production announcement for the Roundabout's (New York) revival of Pygmalion at the American Air- lines Theatre, which notices Majella Hurley, an English dialect coach brought in to help Claire Danes play Eliza.

"Shaw, George Bernard." Irish University Review 37, no. 2 (Autumn/Winter 2007): 551-52. Fifteen entries in the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures annual bibliography for 2006. Five items not listed in this checklist.

"Shaw's Bite Still Leaves Its Mark," review of National Theatre (London) production of Major Barbara. Sunday Herald (Scotland's Independent Newspaper), March 8, 2008.

"Shorn Shaw Makes Hellava Show," review of the Irish Repertory (New York) production oï Devil's Disciple. New York Post, December 31, 2007, 28.

Shortall, Eithne. "Gold Dust in Shaw's Letters to a Binman." Sunday Times (London), March 30, 2008, 6. Ten letters of a correspondence between Shaw and Patrick O'Reilly, a chairman of the Dublin branch of the Irish Labour Party, were expected to bring Euro 15,000 at auc- tion. Dan Laurence's Collected Letters of Shaw show three to O'Reilly.

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The topic was designing and erecting a commemorative plaque at Shaw's birthplace on Synge Street.

Sims, David. "Salvation: Paging George Bernard Shaw, Vests, Breastplates and Capes Worn with Graphically Patterned Minidresses and Leg- gings Add Up to a Look That's Part Joan of Arc, Part Motley Crew." W37, no. 3 (March 2008): 416-18. Not seen. At least ten illustrations.

Smoker, Barbara. "God and GBS." The Shavian 10, no. 5 (Winter 2008): 2-9. "Shaw did indeed declare that the Life Force is still evolving, that it operates through trial and error, and that, for instance, it could not think without the material structure of our brains to think with.

"That is a reversion to Aristotle, who proclaimed that the phenomena of life and mind are due to immaterial principles that could nevertheless not exist apart from matter. But it does not seem to tally with what Shaw says in the Freethinker letter and elsewhere, let alone with the impracticable advice he gave to Fenner Brockway, which presupposes self-existent thought to produce purposeful desire. So it looks as if Shaw never clarified in his own mind what he did mean by the Life Force."

Stafford, Tony. "Great Creating Nature and Human Invention in Shaw's Heartbreak House." The Shavian 10, no. 4 (Spring 2007): 12-23. The "pairing of the epitome of the human inventiveness of Beethoven and the human inventiveness of the destructive bombs completes the theme of invention. Human beings contain within them simultane- ously the capacity for both good and evil, and great creating Nature, in Shaw's treatment of it, remains the better influence."

Sutherland, Lucie. "Arms for Oblivion: Inside Shaw's Dramatic Factory of Thought," review of the Olivier Theatre (London) production of Major Barbara. TLS, March 21, 2008, 17.

Thornton, Michael. "The Siren Who Disappeared: Uncovering the Mys- tery of Britain's First Sex Symbol." Daily Mail, March 27, 2008, news section. The subject is bisexual Frances Day, actress and singer, who inspired Eleanor Roosevelt and Shaw. She got Shaw, at ninety-two, to write Buoyant Billions for her. By 1981 she had changed her name to Samta Young Johnson and taken up residence in Maidenhead, Berk- shire. She died in 1984. A substantial feature article.

Thorp, Brandon K. "Sacred Screwball: Shaw's War and Words Come to New Theatre [Coral Gables] in Saint Joan" production review. New Miami Times, August 23, 2007.

Topper, Scott. "Family Foibles Brought to Life in Misalliance," review of American Players Theatre (Spring Green, Wise.) production. Wiscon- sin State Journal, July 15, 2007, Gl.

Turco, Alfred. "Nobody's Perfect: GBS as Wagnerite." Leitmotive: The Jour- nal of the Wagner Society of Northern California 19, no. 3 (Fall 2005):

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2-5, 16. The second installment of a two-part piece. Picking up where part 1 ended (see "Checklist" for SHAW 26), Turco maintains that Shaw's treatment of Wo tan as the hero of the tetralogy has as much to do with depth psychology as with political allegory. The one meeting between Siegfried and Wotan (now disguised as "The Wanderer") is for Shaw the climax of the cycle before Wagner lost track of his own thematic conception. The dramatist who wrote that "all my characters are right from their several points of view; and their points of view are, for the dramatic moment, mine also" builds a case that even un- appealing personages such as Fricka and Alberich are entitled to an empathetic hearing - mere dismissal being too easy a response. Far from disparaging all the music of Die Götterdämmerung, Shaw grants that much of it is "enormously elaborate and gorgeous" - but holds nonetheless that the pessimistic Schopenhauerian overlay was an af- terthought rather than (as the composer insisted) the originating im- pulse of the work. Wagner's impact on Shaw's own plays and thought was immense - all the more so in instances where he may have been unconscious of it. Turco stresses that The Perfect Wagnerite is the only major book on Wagner written by a dramatist arguably of his own rank, whose works are often structured around the dialectical inter- play of ideas. (This two-part essay is based on a transcript of lectures delivered to the Wagner Society of Northern California in June 2005 and the Wagner Society of Washington, D.C., in May 2007. It is a work in progress.)

Waters, Steve. "Keeping It Real." New Statesman, April 17, 2008, http:// www.newstatesman.com. Waters discusses the genesis and context of his play Fast Labour, in which he evokes a naturalism he describes as in the worldview of Ibsen and Shaw and which Brecht found reaction- ary. He argues to set Brecht's view aside. A naturalist drama may be progressive.

Weaver, Neal. "Why Marry? [first published 1917] At the Secret Rose The- atre [North Hollywood]." Back Stage West, May 3, 2007: 20. Review of Jesse Lynch Williams's play, revived, that owes much to inspiration of Shaw's Getting Married and You Never Can Tell.

Weintraub, Stanley. "Rebels Without a Cause: The Gospel According to George Bernard Shaw." TLS, July 20, 2007, 13-15. A magisterial exe- gesis of Shaw's blank verse Passion Play: A Dramatic Fragment (ca. 1878; published in 1971 and 1974). It interprets Shaw's unique representa- tion of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph and a number of other New Testa- ment personalities. Interesting as well is Weintraub's speculation upon how the play might have ended. It takes into account the alter- ations Shaw interpolated, for example, as follows: "In Shaw, that end would not have been arranged for thirty pieces of silver, for his Judas

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is already wealthy; nor would it have been an act of treachery, for the martyrdom would have been at Jesus's bidding. But Shaw, whose creative thrust would always be satiric, would not have closed with anything that did more than foreshadow a death ordained for the wrong reasons. Endings for him were always paradoxical, and ended little. Audiences were often left to contemplate an unwritten next Act. A rebel and unbeliever at twenty-one, Shaw could not have written a 'Passion Play' in the conventional sense. If he were planning an ironic use of passion, with a lover entering (or re-entering) the life of Jesus, even if too late, Mary Magdalene was waiting."

. "Shaw for the Here and Now." Collections 12 (2007): 12-31. The expansion of a talk given at the International Shaw Society confer- ence in Sarasota, Florida, 2004.

. "Shaw's Don juan in Hell and Schiller's Die Räuber." English Litera- ture in Transition 50, no. 4 (2007): 393-402. "Shaw's creative uses of some of the rhetoric suggested by the debates among von Moor and his intellectual brigands, the dream references, the ethereal dimen- sions of heaven and hell, and much else in Die Räuber foreshadow Man and Superman so strikingly that Schiller must be added to Mozart among the building blocks of what may have been the first great play of the new century."

Wells, Stephen. "Stepping Onstage: Flawed and Enigmatic," review of John Morogiello's 2001 play, Engaging Shaw. New York Times: In the Region, March 2, 2008.

Westgate, J. Chris. "Heartbreak House" review of a 2007 production. The- atre Journal 59, no. 1 (March 2007): 1 10-12. Not seen.

Wilson, Ann. See The Philanderer, above. Wise, Ivan. "The Enemy of the Doctor." The Shavian 10, no. 5 (Winter

2008): 22-31. "The biggest criticisms which writers have of doctors are just the same now as in Shaw's time, they believe that doctors are charlatans, who lie to get their way out of any situation, they are ignorant and have no real idea of how to cure their patients, that they offer ineffective treatment which can actually make the patient worse, have an inappropriate bedside manner, are unconcerned about the plight of their patients, behave in a cruel manner and are greedy and only interested in financial reward."

. "Kipling, Shaw and the War." The Shavian 10, no. 5 (Winter 2008): 10-19. But "for most of their lives, both were sickened by the point- lessness of war, and were anxious to instill in their readers the reality of what it was really like."

. "Saint Joan on Film." The Shavian 10, no. 4 (Spring 2007): 2-7. A brief account of Shaw's eventual sale of the movie rights to his plays, with a concentration on the filming of Saint Joan.

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Wood, Hugh. "Serenade in B: How Historians, Philosophers, Modernists, Musicologists - and Musicians - Have Celebrated the Work of Sir Ed- ward Elgar." TLS, March 21, 2008, 3-5. This lead review of five new books on Elgar makes brief but pointed acknowledgment of the support he got from his friend, Bernard Shaw.

Bernard Shaw Studies, no. 9 (November 2007). The Bernard Shaw Society of Japan. Includes "Bernard Shaw and Samuel Butler: The Quicken- ing of Creative Evolution" by Minoru Morioka, "G. B. Shaw and J. M. Barrie in Adelphi Terrace" by Mariko Oe, and "On Reconciliation in Rattigan's Separate Tables" by Mayu Ochiai. In Japanese.

GBS 29 (September 2006). The Bernard Shaw Society of Japan. Includes (based on English text only) "Shaw Looked at Anew" by Nicholas Wil- liams, "Mrs Warren's Profession" by M. Morioka, "Mrs Warren's Profes- sion" by M. Obata, "The Shewing- Up of Blanco Posnet" by T. Ohtsuka, a piece by R. Oura, "Geneva" by M. Ogiso, "Shawdolater" by M. Obata, and "Review of You Never Can Tell" by Nicholas Williams.

GBS 30 (June 2007). The Bernard Shaw Society of Japan. Includes (based on English text only) "On the Publication of Welcome to the Shavian World" by K. Shinkuma, "Mrs Patrick Campbell in the New Century" by R. Oura, "Shaw and Wilde" by M. Morioka, "'Profession': The Phi- losophy of Life in Terms of 'Profession'" by T. Ohtsuka, "Peter Pan and Pygmalion" by M. Oe, "Separate Tables: A Study of Separate Tables: On the Socialist Mr. Malcolm" by M. Ochiai, "Bernard Shaw Studies in North America" by Michel W. Pharand, and "Candida: External Tranquility and Internal Intensity in Candida" by H. Morikawa. A note on the history of GBS: The first number of GBS was published in November 1972, as the journal of "the Shaw Society of Japan," changed in 1980 to "the Bernard Shaw Society of Japan." The thirty yearly numbers of the journal have followed to the present one in 2007, but it was not published in the years 1979, 1983, 1986, 1987, 1992, and 1994. Months of publication vary.

The Independent Shavian 44, no. 3 (2006). Journal of the Bernard Shaw Society. Includes "Granville Barker: Then and Now" by Richard Nickson, "Mozart and Shaw" by John P. Koontz, "A Friendly Editorial Remonstrance," "Theater Review: Heartbreak House" by Rhoda Na- than, and "2005 Index." See also Koontz, John P., above.

The Shavian 10, no. 4 (Spring 2007). The Journal of the Shaw Society. Includes "GBS One-Liners," "Saint Joan on Film" by Ivan Wise, "Jus- tice and Salvation in Major Barbara" by Paul Levitt, "Great Creating Nature and Human Invention in Heartbreak House" by Tony Stafford, "An Unearthed Christmas Letter" by Barbara Smoker, "The Sesqui- centenary," "Conway Hall," and "Fifty Years On." See also Levitt,

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Paul; Stafford, Tony; and Wise, Ivan, above. See "An Unearthed Christmas Letter" in I. Works by Shaw, above.

The Shavian 10, no. 5 (Winter 2008). The Journal of the Shaw Society. Includes "GBS Quotations," "God and GBS" by Barbara Smoker, "Kipling, Shaw and the War" by Ivan Wise, "The Enemy of the Doc- tor" by Ivan Wise, "Major Barbara Introduction," "In the News," and "Conway Hall." See also Smoker, Barbara; and Wise, Ivan, above.

IV. Dissertations and Selected Theses

Bentley-Wright, Kelly. "A Barthes-Shavian Exploration: The Uncharted Territory of Man and Superman." M.A. thesis, University of South Ala- bama, 2007. No abstract available. WorldCat Dissertations and The- ses, "Bernard Shaw, 2007-2008."

Dekker, Nicholas John. "The Modern Catalyst: German Influences on the British Stage, 1890-1918." Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University, 2007. "Explores the ways British theatre engaged German culture." J. T. Grein, William Archer, Bernard Shaw, and Harley Granville Barker are the main figures studied. "Bernard Shaw introduced En- glish audiences to Richard Wagner's operas, ideas, and productions. Shaw's plays also enjoyed a rich production history in Germany through his working relationship with his translator, Siegfried Trebit- sch." "In the context of WWI, their relationship to German culture changed radically." Archer turned against Germany. "Shaw, mean- while, wrote articles criticizing British leadership during the war." OhioLink ETD, "Dekker, Nicholas," April 20, 2008.

Hultgren, Neil Emory. "Distance Overcome: Melodrama and British Im- perial Fiction, 1857-1902." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Virginia, 2007. Treats Captain Brassbound's Conversion. No abstract available. WorldCat Dissertations and Theses, "Bernard Shaw, 2007-2008."

Humphries, David. "Peace and Mind: Religion, Race, and Gender Among Progressive Intellectuals and Activists." M.A. thesis, Georgia State University, 2006. Abstract: "This paper explores how changing con- ceptions of religion, race, and gender at the beginning of the twentieth century promoted transnational antisystemic movements and increased cooperation between progressive intellectuals and political activists. Using the cases of Bertrand Russell, George Bernard Shaw, W. E. B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, Jane Addams, and Sylvia Pankhurst, this paper chronicles and analyzes protest to the First World War and objection to the organization of the world-system." Online at http:// etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-08062007-121143/.

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V. Recordings

Albert Einstein: Historic Recordings, 1930-1947. CD. London: British Li- brary, 2005. Includes a live recording of the historic fund-raising dinner on behalf of Jewish charities at the Savoy Hotel, London, in 1930 with the speeches made by Shaw and Einstein. Compiled by Richard Fairman. This CD will remain in stock for several years. Available from the British Library Online Bookshop: http://www.bl.uk/acatalog/ Catalogue_ISBN_012305211_370.html. Price: £9.95.

Apple Cart. DVD, 163 min. Burbank, Calif.: Warner Home Video, 2008. Not seen.

Arms and the Man. CD. Venice, Calif.: L.A. Theatre Works, [2006] 2007. Available electronically from NetLibrary. Not seen.

Candida. CD. Venice, Calif.: L.A. Theatre Works, [1994] 2007. Available electronically from NetLibrary. Not seen.

The Devil's Disciple. CD. Venice, Calif.: L.A. Theatre Works, [1997] 2007. Available electronically from NetLibrary. Not seen.

The Doctor's Dilemma. CD. Princeton: Recordings for the Blind and Dys- lexic, 2008. Not seen.

Eight Great Comedies [including] Arms and the Man. Princeton: Recordings for the Blind and Dyslexic, 2007. Not seen.

Essential Classics [including] My Fair Lady. 3-DVD set. Burbank, Calif.: War- ner Brothers, [1964] 2007. Not seen.

Famous Authors: George Bernard Shaw. DVD, 30 min. Wallingford, Conn.: Kultur Video, 2008. List: $19.99. Not seen.

George Bernard Shaw. CD e-book plus audio. Independence, Ky.: Only the Best, 2005. Thirty-eight complete works by G.B.S. Works only in a computer. Price: $7.95 plus $3.95 shipping.

George Bernard Shaw and His Times. VHS, 38 min. New York: Insight Media, [1984] 2007. Includes scenes from Man and Superman and includes a dramatization of Shaw rehearsing with actors that is based on The Art of Rehearsal, where Shaw outlined his theory of directing. Orderfromwww.insight.media.com. Phone: 800-2339910. $139.00.

Heartbreak House. 3-CD set, 208 min. Washington, D.C.: Audio Book Con- tractors, 2007. Not seen.

Irish Theater: Raw Bones and Poetry. DVD, 50 min. New York: Insight Media, 2000. Reviews the "history of Irish drama . . . considers the influences of ... Wilde, Yeats, Shaw, Synge, and O'Casey." Order from www.insight.media.com. Phone: 800-233-9910. $159.00. Not seen.

John Bulls Other Island. MP3, 180 min. London: HarperCollins, 2008. $12.75. Not seen.

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Living Doll: Background to Shaw's "Pygmalion." DVD, 30 min. Princeton: Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1997. Explores most of the influences in the making of the film. Phone: 800-257-5126. $149.95. Not seen.

Major Barbara. DVD, 116 min. Earl Shilton, U.K.: Second Sight, [1941] 2007. Not seen.

Major Barbara. 2-DVD set, 146 min. In Chinese. Tran. Ruocheng Ying, [1994] 2007. No other data. Listed in WorldCat; search term bernard shaw in 2007-8. Not seen.

Major Barbara. In Classical Monologues, vol. 4. Ed. Leon Katz. Princeton: Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic, 2007. Not seen. Excerpt: "Twentieth-century English: Major Barbara, discovering the rue secret for saving souls, rededicates her life, Act IV."

Michael Holroyd on George Bernard Shaw. DVD, 53 min. Princeton: Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1988. On Shaw's biography and the effects upon Holroyd from studying G.B.S. Order from www.films .com. Phone: 800-257-5126. $149.95. Not seen.

Misalliance. CD, 105 min. Venice, Calif.: L.A. Theatre Works, [2004] 2007. Available electronically from NetLibrary. Not seen.

Mrs Warren's Profession. DVD, 109 min. Burbank, Calif.: Warner Home Video, [1972] 2006. Not seen.

Mrs. Warren's Profession. In The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Victorian Age, vol. E, 8th ed. Ed. Carol T. Christ and Catherine Rob- son. New York: W. W. Norton, 2006. CD by Princeton: Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic, 2007. Not seen.

Music from the Olivier Films. CD. Colchester: Chandos Classics, [1991] 2007. Includes music for Major Barbara. Not seen.

My Fair Lady. DVD. Burbank, Calif.: Warner Brothers, [1964] 2007. Not seen.

Pygmalion. CD, 99 min. Venice, Calif.: L.A. Theatre Works, [1995] 2007. Available electronically from NetLibrary. Not seen.

Pygmalion. In The Longman Anthology of British Literature: The Twentieth Cen- tury, vol. 2C, 3rd ed. New York: Pearson/Longman, 2006. CD by Princeton: Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic, 2007. Not seen.

The Spoken Word: Bernard Shaw. 2-CD set. London: British Library, 2006. ISBN 0-7123-0531-9. £15.95. "Brings together rare BBC radio recordings of Shaw speaking on a variety of subjects, ranging from drama to social equality to economics." Includes a controversial speech entitled "A Message to America." Broadcasts span the period 1931-37. Contact Ruth Howlett at British Library Press office: 020- 7412-71 12 or at [email protected].

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VI. Bernard Shaw on the World Wide Web

Altimari, Daniela. "Pete Seeger Honored at Avon Old Farms School." Pete Seeger Appreciation Page Updates, May 11, 2008, http://peteseeger site.wordpress.com (May 14, 2008). Seeger was Class of 1936 at the school and, at thirteen, acted in the school's production of Saint Joan.

"Bernard Shaw." Global Performing Arts Database, Cornell University, October 2002, http://www.glopad.org (April 27, 2008). "Records include authoritative, detailed, multilingual descriptions of digital im- ages, texts, video clips, sound recording, and complex media objects relating to the performing arts around the world." Listed sixty-six items for Shaw on April 27, 2008 (links for items 16 to 30 did not operate). High-definition electronic pictures, playbills, production programs, and photographs. Examples: Sydney Cockerell's admis- sion ticket to Shaw's cremation and Shaw's 1908 auto club member- ship card: "Royal Automobile Club, 119 Piccadilly, London, W."

"Bernard Shaw: Antiquarian. . . ." eBay, http://search.ebay.com/bernard- shaw (April 13, 2008). Seventy-nine items offered on this date. A few have special interest. Examples: "Richard Ziegler Portrait of George Bernard Shaw"; signed postcard to Clarkson Rose; "stunning" signed photo print. eBay provides a temporary electronic catalog, with ap- propriate photos, but the catalogs are not archived after auctions are complete.

"Bernard Shaw Collection." University of Delaware Library, Manuscript Collection Number: 102 (upload date not provided), http://www.lib .udel.edWud/spec/findaids/shawJber.htm (April 24, 2008). "Collec- tion consists of correspondence, manuscripts, a contract, receipts, proofs, and inscriptions by the playwright." Web site lists twenty- seven folders listed with detailed descriptions of contents and about twenty names of familiar Shaw associates.

Broadway World News Desk. "Encompass Opera Presents 'Shaw Sings!' at Symphony Space [Theatre, New York]." BroadwayWorld.com, May 15, 2008. Production announcement for June 19-22, 2008, of the Philip Hagemann compositions for comic opera versions of Passion, Poison and Petrifaction and The Dark Lady of the Sonnets. Hagemann has composed five comic operas based on Shaw's plays. The others are The Six of Calais, Music Cure, and Androcles.

[Burton, Bonnie]. "Grrl Still Kickin' - It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad Galaxy." Blatherings from Bonnigirl, November 10, 2007, http://bonnigrrl.li- vejournal.com. Comment on Dick DeBartolo's writing in Mad Maga- zine includes his answer to her question, "How did it feel to have George Lucas write a fan letter to Mad Magazine calling you the

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'George Bernard Shaw of comic satire?" He was thrilled. He framed it.

Cabot, Meg. The Official Website of Meg Cabot, June 26, 2007, http:// www.megcabot.com. Cabot is a novelist. The Web site advertises a critic's compliment to Cabot: "What Meg Cabot produces for us: Fun. She is the master of her genre; she is the George Bernard Shaw if not the George Eliot of chick lit."

Carpenter, Charles A. A Selective, Classified International Bibliography of Pub- lications About Bernard Shaw: Works from 1940 to Date, with Appendix of Earlier Works, last updated on June 4, 2008, http ://chuma. cas. usf.edu/ -^dietrich/Carpenter-Shaw-Bibliography-TOC. International Shaw Society (ISS) members may also reach this link by clicking on "Bibli- ographies" under "Menu B." This online bibliography is a segmented version. E-mail Professor Carpenter for a one-piece version if you wish to search the entire database as a single page. Carpenter has made the bibliography available on the ISS Web site as a gift to Shaw Society members. For a very nominal cost, bibliographies of similar design and scope by Carpenter are on Barker, Becket, O'Casey, O'Neil, Pinter, Stoppard, Synge, Yeats, and Miller. He may be reached at "Al Carpenter" ([email protected]).

Dietrich, Richard. Shaw Bizness: Links to the Life, Times, and Work of Irish Playwright George Bernard Shaw, http://chuma.cas. usf.edu/ -dietrich/shawbizness.html (May 21, 2008), and International Shaw Society Home Page, http://chuma.cas.usf.edu/~dietrich/iss (May 21, 2008). Dietrich's two Web sites, are, in combination, by far the most important Web sites for matters about Shaw.

"George Bernard Shaw." IMDb [Internet Movie Database, upload dates seriatim], http://www.imdb.com (May 21, 2008). Lists with basic production information almost one hundred movies/films/videos of Shaw works, in several languages, including English, Spanish, French, Ger- man, Russian, and others. See also "George Bernard Shaw" in V. Re- cordings, above.

"George Bernard Shaw." Technorati [upload dates seriatim], http://www .technorati.com/search/george%20bernard%20shaw (May 21, 2008). About 28,300 nondifferentiated hits on December 12, 2006. The Technorati blog search engine yields about 150 hits, with "a lot of authority," for "George Bernard Shaw." Most of these hits are sub- stantively lightweight. Wikipedia lists four other blog search engines, Amatomu, Bloglines, IceRocket, and Sphere.

"The George Bernard Shaw Collection." The British Library: The Integrated Catalogue [upload dates not provided], httpV/blpc.bl.uk/cgi-bin/print .cgi Purl = /collections (April 24, 2008). Thirty-three titles by Shaw are listed here; some are replicate. "Works privately printed by Shaw,

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such as the playscripts he used for rehearsals." A number are repre- sented here in different states of revision. Other titles are of works associated with Shaw.

Google Alert for: Bernard Shaw. Putting Google Alert with Bernard Shaw into the Google search engine will allow you to arrange to have e-mailed to you from "News" and "web" all new mentions of anyone/ anything named "Bernard Shaw" as they are posted.

"Happy Birthday, Peter Falk." Welcome to Limbo Blogspot.Com, Septem- ber 16, 2007. Falk, in the late 1950s, early in his career was in a Broadway production of Saint Joan.

"Inventory of the Bernard Shaw Papers, 1878-1964." Library of the Uni- versity of North Carolina [no upload date], http://www.lib.unc.edu/ mss/inv/s/Shaw,Bernard.html (April 24, 2008). The fourteen-page online listing is of items in the Archibald Henderson collection. "Collec- tion Overview" provides extensive description of the materials and the people connected to G.B.S. Henderson was a biographer of Shaw and on the mathematics faculty at the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill.

Langston, Patrick. "Smash a Fresh Delight," review of the Arts Court The- atre production of Jeffrey Hatcher's stage adaptation of Shaw's An Unsocial Socialist. Canada.Com, January 18, 2007, http ://www. canada .com/components/print.

Li, Kay. A Virtual Tour ofShaviana [upload dates seriatim], http :///www. geo cities.com/issbernardshaw/ (May 21, 2008). Li's Web site, linked to the International Shaw Society Web site, has reached a diversification so interesting and useful that, by the ease of access it provides to online Shaw materials of interest to scholarship of all levels of seriousness, it has become almost independently indispensable. Much that would otherwise have to be listed in this "Checklist" is listed here. It may also be reached from the ISS Web site at http://chuma.cas.usf.edu/ ~dietrich/iss~ members.

Mars, Bill. "Theater Views: Farewell, Laurence ofShaviana." The Arts Fuse, March 9, 2008, http://www.theartsfuse.com. A laudatory obituary: "A man who was generous with his time and knowledge, whose loving, herculean task of editing the length and breath of GBS's writing -

particularly his fabulous letters - puts Shavians in his debt now and for centuries to come."

"(May 20 [2008]) Today We're Celebrating . . . Eliza Doolittle Day." Holi- days on the Net Holiday Blog, May 20, 2008. "In honor of the heroine of ... Pygmalion and . . . My Fair Lady . . . Eliza Doolittle, this day pays tribute to developing mastery over your native language."

Mitchell, Andy. "Theatre and Dance Faculty [Northern Illinois State Uni-

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versity] to Present Shaw's Don juan in Hell." Northern Star Online, May 9, 2008, http://www.northernstar.info/article/print.

Monaghan, John. "Stratford Season Begins with Some Changes," production announcement of Christopher Plummer in Caesar and Cleopatra. Freep.com (Detroit), April 23, 2008, http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs .11/article?.

Moskowitz, Jessica. "In Love, in War: First- Year Theater," review of Col- gate first-year seminar production of Arms and the Man. Maroon News, student newspaper of Colgate University, November 29, 2007, http:// media.www.maroon-news.com.

Rusland, Peter. "Mining Reality from an Icon," review of Chemainus The- atre (Chemainus, BC) production of Saint Joan. Black Press, April 12, 2008, http://www.printhis.clickability.com.

Shadrak, Herb. "Nehemiah Persoff: From Jerusalem to Hollywood - and Beyond." Cinemaretro, April 10, 2008, http://www.cinemaretro.com. The interview of Persoff discovers yet another actor whose early break came by doing an audition from a Shaw play, in this case Devil's Dis- ciple.

"Shavings." The Oscholars, August 18, 2007, http://www.oscholars.com. The Web site is devoted primarily to Oscar Wilde. "Shavings" is its link for matters on Shaw. The general editor oí Oscholars, David Rose, says the mailing list for the online journal is about 1,400, the potential readership of "Shavings." "Shavings" #27 was posted in February 2008.

Shaw Chicago Theater Company. 2008, http ://www. shawchicago.org/about .html (May 21, 2008). Shaw Chicago presents the plays of Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries. Promotion and production information for the 2008-9 season.

Shaw Festival 2008. http://www.shawfest.com/ (May 21, 2008). Promotion and production information for the 2008 season. Shaw play productions for 2008 are Mrs Warren's Profession and Getting Married.

The Shaw Society. 2006, http://www.shawsociety. org.uk/gallery. htm (April 24, 2008). The Web site of the Shaw society that publishes The Shavian.

"Stanley Holloway." Boot Sale Sounds, February 17, 2008, http://boota salesounds.blogspot.com. British actor Holloway was in the 1941 cast in one of the biggest films, Shaw's Major Barbara. It led to major parts in films throughout the World War II years. He was a big hit as Alfred P. Doolittle in the New York smash My Fair Lady in the 1950s. He died in 1982, leaving an autobiography titled Wiv a Little Bit of Luck (1981).

"UST-CSC. [University of St. Thomas and College of St. Catherine, St. Paul] Theater Department Presents Mrs Warren's Profession April 9-

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13," production announcement. Bulletin Today, April 7, 2008, http:// www.stthomas.edu/bulletin/news.

VII. Other Media

"Bernard Shaw." Global Performing Arts Database, Cornell University, October 2002, http://www.glopad.org (April 27, 2008). See "Bernard Shaw" in part VI above.

"Charles Chaplin George Bernard Shaw Candid Hawaii [Associated Press] Photo." eBay, October 30, 2007. Not retrievable. "Vintage and original of Chaplin Having Dinner with the great George Bernard Shaw in Honolulu." 7" _ 9". March 3, 1936. Two others in the photo are Shirland Quinn, Honolulu novelist, and P. Y. Chong, the city's famous Chinese caterer. Contact me for a photocopy of the photo.

Frehm, Ron. AP Photo of Gay Tálese, Susan Sontag, Norman Mailer, and Gore Vidal following their benefit performance of Donjuán at Carne- gie Hall, February 15, 1993. Washingtonpost.com Camera Works, November 20, 2007, httpV/www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ photo.

"Making Odd Masks Is New Hobby (Aug, 1933)." Modern Mechanix, July 16, 2007, httpV/blog.modernmechanix.com. Web page presents a vintage photo captioned, "Old brushes form the whiskers on tin face of Bernard Shaw mask. [Greta] Garbo mask has gilded steel wool for hair."

Ziegler, Richard. "Portrait of George Bernard Shaw." eBay, April 13, 2008. Not retrievable. Ziegler is German. Drawing is in ink, measur- ing 10" X 8", in generally good condition. Contact me for a photocopy of the drawing.

VIII. Miscellany

Huggett, Richard. The First Night of "Pygmalion": A Comedy for Two People. London: Faber and Faber, 1970. This listing is to support interest in the recent revival of this play.

Loewen, Walter. GBS: Three Days in the Life of George Bernard Shaw, or Se- duction of the Unseduceable, a Comedy. 2nd ed. Hanover: Moorburg-Ver- lag, 2007. ISBN 3927267074. Not seen.

Obata, Masako. Rose and Cabbage: Bernard Shaw's Married Life. Tokyo: Inaho Press, 2007. In Japanese. A play in six scenes (original title Bara to Kyabetsu) utilizing Shaw's plays and biographical data to illus- trate how Charlotte felt about her husband and his philandering. With an appendix, "Mrs. G.B.S.," originally published in Bernard Shaw Studies 6 (Bernard Shaw Society of Japan, 2003). Not seen.

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Note

Thanks go to Richard W. Winslow III for discovering and supplying page copies for a number of entries in this list. As SHAW bibliographer, I welcome information about new and forthcoming Shaviana: books, articles, pamphlets, monographs, dissertations, films, videos, audio recordings, and the like, citations and copies of which may be sent to me at the De- partment of English Language and Literature, Central Michigan Univer- sity, Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859; e-mail [email protected]; fax 989-774- 1271.

Special advice for searching for works by and about Shaw: Use Amazon .com as a search engine and enter Bernard Shaw; select "by date of publication" in the "relevance" box. The result is a list of works by and about Shaw published from 2008 to earlier years. Each entry provides links to all mentions of G.B.S. in the listed work, in PDF pages, which can also be "turned" to view surrounding text. The printer on ordinary Web crawlers is surfer disabled so that readers must take hand notes of texts to be cop- ied. This procedure produced 19,951 hits on April 26, 2008; about three hundred for the year 2008. Contact information for publishers is on Ama- zon.com, or Google.

WorldCat and Amazon.com enable identification of numerous hard- copy, e-book, and sound recording (listed in V. Recordings) editions and reprints of Shaw works. This listing makes an effort to list only titles issued after April 2007. New or repetitions of pre-April 2007 listings provide new information on the title. Furthermore, unlike previous lists, the SHAW 28 "Checklist" provides individual entries for new Shaw title publications only for editions and presses that have at least some scholarly status, special content, or the potential of wide popular sale. Of the fourteen nonscholarly publishers that appear in the entries here, IndyPublish- .com is generally four times more expensive than the others.

Many entries under "II. Books and Pamphlets" are listed accurately as "not seen" (by me). A number of entries taken from listings on Amazon .com are listed without caveat, though the viewing of the texts is through the limited PDF electronic display made possible by Amazon's merchan- dising strategy, which allows virtual viewing of almost unlimited pages.

In his article in SHAW 25, "Tracking Down Shaw Studies: The Proper Use of Printed and Online Bibliographical Sources," Charles A. Carpenter names an array of online reference tools, the use of which in the period covered by this 2008 "Checklist" discovered hundreds of serial reviews of performances of Shaw works and many other pieces on Shaw topics of every kind - often not formally "scholarly." The principle of selection of

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those pieces included under "III. Periodicals" is intended to be selective and illustrative. In many cases articles that are published in hard copy are listed here in electronic archives from which they can be more conve- niently retrieved. A few additional articles are listed in "VI. Bernard Shaw on the World Wide Web." Reviews of performances and publications are not annotated in the "Checklist."

Entries in the "V. Recordings" section sometimes repeat entries in checklists of prior SHAW annual volumes, for at least one of two reasons: ( 1 ) to inform "Checklist" readers that a recording remains advertised for sale or possible acquisition in a current source's listing or (2) to inform readers that the description, source, or price of a recording has changed. Audio recordings of many Shaw works are increasingly for sale or acquisition. A small number of those available are listed here, especially from the Princeton-based Recordings for the Blind and Dyslexic, which are not for sale.

The search terms George Bernard Shaw and Bernard Shaw on a standard search engine such as Google or MSN in 2008 produce well over one and a half million hits. The items include many for the U.S. television journal- ist Bernard Shaw, duplications and iterations, and other maverick ones. Many of the G.B.S. items produce online information that is dated, in- complete, simplifying, or inaccurate. Nevertheless, searching for Shaw on the Web is increasingly productive, especially through the agency of a handful of Web sites devoted to Shaw. In addition, persons with access to JSTOR, Muse, WorldCat, MLA International Bibliography Online, and Books in Print, for example, through perhaps a university library sub- scription, may complete as much as 80 percent of primary and secondary research in texts online. Increasingly available at business Web sites such as Amazon.com are downloadable "etexts" or "e-books" of primary and secondary Shaw publications. URLs are furnished when other entry re- trieval information is insufficient. Entries in the "VI. Bernard Shaw on the World Wide Web" section of the "Checklist" are representative and selected.

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