George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw Criticism

• Principal Works
• Introduction
• Criticism: General Commentary
  • The Ascent to Heaven: A Shavian Pattern (Early Plays, 1894-1898)
  • Rhetorical Style in Shaw's Plays
  • The Irish Lady in Shaw's Plays
  • Heartless, Heartbroken, and Heartfelt: A Recurrent Theme in the Plays of Bernard Shaw
  • G. Bernard Shaw's Political Plays of the Nineteen Thirties
• Form and Intention: A Negative View of Arms and the Man
• Criticism: Candida (1897)
  • The Craft of Candida
  • Love and ‘Vitality’ in Candida
• Propaganda and Art in Mrs. Warren's Profession
• Criticism: Major Barbara (1905)
  • The Price of Salvation: Moral Economics in Major Barbara.
  • The Natural History of Major Barbara
  • Major Barbara: Comic Masterpiece
• Criticism: Man And Superman (1905)
  • Shaw's Use of Stylized Characters and Speech in Man and Superman
  • Man and Superman: The Shavianizing of Friedrich Nietzsche
• Criticism: Pygmalion (1913)
  • Pygmalion Revisited
  • Deconstructing Henry Higgins, or Eliza as Derridean ‘Text.’
• Criticism: Saint Joan (1923)
  • Saint Joan as Epic Tragedy
  • Shaw's Saint Joan: A Tragic Heroine
• Further Reading