Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Note on the Text; Part 1 Widowers' Houses; Chapter 3 From an unsigned notice, Daily Telegraph; Chapter 4 W. Moy Thomas, unsigned notice, Daily News; Chapter 5 J. T. Grein, from a letter to the Daily Telegraph; Chapter 6 From a notice by W.A., World; Chapter 7 From a notice by H.W.M., Illustrated London News; Chapter 8 A. B. Walkley, from an initialled notice, Speaker; Chapter 9 Oscar Wilde on Shaw's confidence; Part 2 Arms and the Man; Chapter 10 From an unsigned notice, Star; Chapter 11 William Archer, initialled notice, World; Chapter 12 A. B. Walkley, from an initialled notice, Speaker; Part 3 Candida; Chapter 13 From an unsigned notice, Aberdeen journal; Chapter 14 Oliver Elton, unsigned notice, Manchester Guardian; Part 4 Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant; Chapter 15 H. A. Jones, letter to Shaw; Chapter 16 Review by Max Beerbohm, Saturday Review; Chapter 17 Joseph Knight, from an unsigned review, Athenaeum; Part 5 The Devil's Disciple; Chapter 18 Unsigned notice, The Times; Chapter 19 G. S. Street on Shaw as a new dramatist in an old tradition; Part 6 Captain Brassbound's Conversion; Chapter 20 William Archer, notice, World; Part 7 Three Plays for Puritans; Chapter 21 Arnold Bennett, review, Academy; Chapter 22 J. G. Huneker on Shaw as ‘a better bishop than a playwright’; Part 8 Man and Superman; Chapter 23 G. K. Chesterton, review, Daily News; Chapter 24 Max Beerbohm, review, Saturday Review; Chapter 25 F. G. Bettany in an unsigned review, Athenaeum; Chapter 26 E. A. Baughan, initialled notice, Daily News; Chapter 27 A. B. Walkley on Man and Superman; Chapter 28 William Archer, notice, World; Chapter 29 Bertrand Russell on Shaw as ‘more bounder than genius’; Part 9 John Bull's Other Island; Chapter 30 W. B. Yeats, letter to Shaw; Chapter 31 A. B. Walkley on John Bull's Other Island; Chapter 32 E. A. Baughan, from a notice, Daily News; Chapter 33 William Archer, notice, World; Chapter 34 Max Beerbohm, notice, Saturday Review; Chapt

About the Author

T. F. Evans