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An Unsocial Socialist
Androcles and the Lion
Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress
Arms and the Man
Augustus Does His Bit: A True-to-Life Farce
Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch
Caesar and Cleopatra
Candida
Candida: Ein Mysterium in drei Akten
Captain Brassbound's Conversion
Cashel Byron's Profession
Fanny's First Play
Getting Married
Great Catherine (Whom Glory Still Adores)
Heartbreak House
How He Lied to Her Husband
John Bull's Other Island
Major Barbara
Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy
Maxims for Revolutionists
Misalliance
Mrs. Warren's Profession
O'Flaherty V.C.: A Recruiting Pamphlet
On the Prospects of Christianity / Bernard Shaw's Preface to Androcles and the Lion
Overruled
Preface to Major Barbara: First Aid to Critics
Press Cuttings
Pygmalion
Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion
The Admirable Bashville; Or, Constancy Unrewarded / Being the Novel of Cashel Byron's Profession Done into a Stage Play in Three Acts and in Blank Verse, with a Note on Modern Prize Fighting
The Dark Lady of the Sonnets
The Devil's Disciple
The Doctor's Dilemma
The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors
The Impossibilities of Anarchism
The Inca of Perusalem: An Almost Historical Comedietta
The Irrational Knot / Being the Second Novel of His Nonage
The Man of Destiny
The Miraculous Revenge
The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring
The Philanderer
The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet
Treatise on Parents and Children
You Never Can Tell
George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902) and Pygmalion (1912). With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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- Intro
- AN UNSOCIAL SOCIALIST
- CHAPTER I
- CHAPTER II
- CHAPTER III
- CHAPTER IV
- CHAPTER V
- CHAPTER VI
- CHAPTER VII
- CHAPTER VIII
- CHAPTER IX
- CHAPTER X
- CHAPTER XI
- CHAPTER XII
- CHAPTER XIII
- CHAPTER XIV
- CHAPTER XV
- CHAPTER XVI
- CHAPTER XVII
- CHAPTER XVIII
- APPENDIX
- ANDROCLES AND THE LION
- PROLOGUE
- ACT I
- ACT II
- ANNAJANSKA, THE BOLSHEVIK EMPRESS
- Arms and the Man
- AUGUSTUS DOES HIS BIT
- A TRUE-TO-LIFE FARCE
- AUGUSTUS DOES HIS BIT
- BACK TO METHUSELAH
- A Metabiological Pentateuch
- THE INFIDEL HALF CENTURY
- THE DAWN OF DARWINISM
- THE ADVENT OF THE NEO-DARWINIANS
- POLITICAL INADEQUACY OF THE HUMAN ANIMAL
- COWARDICE OF THE IRRELIGIOUS
- IS THERE ANY HOPE IN EDUCATION?
- HOMEOPATHIC EDUCATION
- THE DIABOLICAL EFFICIENCY OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION
- FLIMSINESS OF CIVILIZATION
- CREATIVE EVOLUTION
- VOLUNTARY LONGEVITY
- THE EARLY EVOLUTIONISTS
- THE ADVENT OF THE NEO-LAMARCKIANS
- HOW ACQUIREMENTS ARE INHERITED
- THE MIRACLE OF CONDENSED RECAPITULATION
- HEREDITY AN OLD STORY
- DISCOVERY ANTICIPATED BY DIVINATION
- CORRECTED DATES FOR THE DISCOVERY OF EVOLUTION
- DEFYING THE LIGHTNING: A FRUSTRATED EXPERIMENT
- IN QUEST OF THE FIRST CAUSE
- PALEY'S WATCH
- THE IRRESISTIBLE CRY OF ORDER, ORDER!
- THE MOMENT AND THE MAN
- THE BRINK OF THE BOTTOMLESS PIT
- WHY DARWIN CONVERTED THE CROWD
- HOW WE RUSHED DOWN A STEEP PLACE
- DARWINISM NOT FINALLY REFUTABLE
- THREE BLIND MICE
- THE GREATEST OF THESE IS SELF-CONTROL
- A SAMPLE OF LAMARCKO-SHAVIAN INVECTIVE
- THE HUMANITARIANS AND THE PROBLEM OF EVIL
- HOW ONE TOUCH OF DARWIN MAKES THE WHOLE WORLD KIN
- WHY DARWIN PLEASED THE SOCIALISTS
- DARWIN AND KARL MARX
- WHY DARWIN PLEASED THE PROFITEERS ALSO
- THE POETRY AND PURITY OF MATERIALISM
- THE VICEROYS OF THE KING OF KINGS
- POLITICAL OPPORTUNISM IN EXCELSIS
- THE BETRAYAL OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION
- CIRCUMSTANTIAL SELECTION IN FINANCE
- THE HOMEOPATHIC REACTION AGAINST DARWINISM
- RELIGION AND ROMANCE
- THE DANGER OF REACTION
- A TOUCHSTONE FOR DOGMA
- WHAT TO DO WITH THE LEGENDS
- A LESSON FROM SCIENCE TO THE CHURCHES
- THE RELIGIOUS ART OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
- THE ARTIST-PROPHETS
- EVOLUTION IN THE THEATRE
- MY OWN PART IN THE MATTER
- BACK TO METHUSELAH.
- PART I-In the Beginning
- ACT I
- ACT II
- PART II-The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas
- PART III-The Thing Happens
- PART IV-Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman
- ACT I
- ACT II
- ACT III
- PART V.-As Far as Thought can Reach
- CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA
- ACT I
- ACT II
- ACT III
- ACT IV
- ACT V
- NOTES TO CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA
- CLEOPATRA'S CURE FOR BALDNESS
- APPARENT ANACHRONISMS
- CLEOPATRA
- BRITANNUS
- JULIUS CAESAR
- CANDIDA
- ACT I
- ACT II
- ACT III
- CAPTAIN BRASSBOUND'S CONVERSION
- ACT I
- ACT II
- ACT III
- NOTES TO CAPTAIN BRASSBOUND'S CONVERSION
- SOURCES OF THE PLAY
- CASHEL BYRON'S PROFESSION
- PROLOGUE
- I
- II
- III
- CHAPTER I
- CHAPTER II
- CHAPTER III.
- CHAPTER IV
- CHAPTER V
- CHAPTER VI
- CHAPTER VII
- CHAPTER VIII
- CHAPTER IX
- CHAPTER X
- CHAPTER XI
- CHAPTER XII
- CHAPTER XIII
- CHAPTER XIV
- CHAPTER XV
- CHAPTER XVI
- FANNY'S FIRST PLAY
- PREFACE TO FANNY'S FIRST PLAY
- FANNY'S FIRST PLAY
- INDUCTION
- THE PLAY
- ACT I
- ACT II
- ACT III
- EPILOGUE
- GETTING MARRIED
- Preface To "Getting Married
- PREFACE TO GETTING MARRIED
- THE REVOLT AGAINST MARRIAGE
- MARRIAGE NEVERTHELESS INEVITABLE
- WHAT DOES THE WORD MARRIAGE MEAN
- SURVIVALS OF SEX SLAVERY
- A NEW ATTACK ON MARRIAGE
- A FORGOTTEN CONFERENCE OF MARRIED MEN
- HEARTH AND HOME
- TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING
- LARGE AND SMALL FAMILIES
- THE GOSPEL OF LAODICEA
- FOR BETTER FOR WORSE
- WANTED: AN IMMORAL STATESMAN
- THE LIMITS OF DEMOCRACY
- THE SCIENCE AND ART OF POLITICS
- WHY STATESMEN SHIRK THE MARRIAGE QUESTION
- THE QUESTION OF POPULATION
- THE RIGHT TO MOTHERHOOD
- MONOGAMY, POLYGYNY AND POLYANDRY
- THE MALE REVOLT AGAINST POLYGYNY
- DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ORIENTAL AND OCCIDENTAL POLYGYNY
- THE OLD MAID'S RIGHT TO MOTHERHOOD
- IBSEN'S CHAIN STITCH
- REMOTENESS OF THE FACTS FROM THE IDEAL
- DIFFICULTY OF OBTAINING EVIDENCE
- MARRIAGE AS A MAGIC SPELL
- THE IMPERSONALITY OF SEX
- THE ECONOMIC SLAVERY OF WOMEN
- UNPOPULARITY OF IMPERSONAL VIEWS
- IMPERSONALITY IS NOT PROMISCUITY
- DOMESTIC CHANGE OF AIR
- HOME MANNERS ARE BAD MANNERS
- SPURIOUS "NATURAL" AFFECTION
- CARRYING THE WAR INTO THE ENEMY'S COUNTRY
- SHELLEY AND QUEEN VICTORIA
- A PROBABLE EFFECT OF GIVING WOMEN THE VOTE
- THE PERSONAL SENTIMENTAL BASIS OF MONOGAMY
- DIVORCE
- IMPORTANCE OF SENTIMENTAL GRIEVANCE
- DIVORCE WITHOUT ASKING WHY
- ECONOMIC SLAVERY AGAIN THE ROOT DIFFICULTY
- LABOR EXCHANGES AND THE WHITE SLAVERY
- CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE
- DIVORCE A SACRAMENTAL DUTY
- OTHELLO AND DESDEMONA
- WHAT IS TO BECOME OF THE CHILDREN?
- THE COST OF DIVORCE
- CONCLUSIONS
- GETTING MARRIED
- GREAT CATHERINE (WHOM GLORY STILL ADORES)
- In Catherine's reign, whom Glory still adores" BYRON
- THE AUTHOR'S APOLOGY FOR GREAT CATHERINE
- GREAT CATHERINE
- THE FIRST SCENE
- THE SECOND SCENE
- THE THIRD SCENE
- THE FOURTH SCENE
- HEARTBREAK HOUSE
- A FANTASIA IN THE RUSSIAN MANNER ON ENGLISH THEMES
- 1913-1916
- HEARTBREAK HOUSE AND HORSEBACK HALL
- HEARTBREAK HOUSE
- ACT I
- ACT II
- ACT III
- HOW HE LIED TO HER HUSBAND
- PREFACE
- HOW HE LIED TO HER HUSBAND
- JOHN BULL'S OTHER ISLAND
- ACT I
- ACT II
- ACT III
- ACT IV
- MAJOR BARBARA
- ACT I
- ACT II
- ACT III
- MAN AND SUPERMAN
- A COMEDY AND A PHILOSOPHY By Bernard Shaw
- EPISTLE DEDICATORY TO ARTHUR BINGHAM WALKLEY
- My dear Walkley:
- ACT I
- ACT II
- ACT III
- ACT IV
- Maxims for Revolutionists
- MISALLIANCE
- MRS WARREN'S PROFESSION
- With The Author's Apology (1902)
- THE AUTHOR'S APOLOGY
- MRS WARREN'S PROFESSION
- ACT I
- ACT II
- ACT III
- ACT IV
- O'FLAHERTY V.C.: A RECRUITING PAMPHLET
- O'FLAHERTY V.C.
- PREFACE TO ANDROCLES AND THE LION: ON THE PROSPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY
- PREFACE ON THE PROSPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY
- WHY JESUS MORE THAN ANOTHER?
- WAS JESUS A COWARD?
- WAS JESUS A MARTYR?
- THE GOSPELS WITHOUT PREJUDICE.
- THE GOSPELS NOW UNINTELLIGIBLE TO NOVICES.
- WORLDLINESS OF THE MAJORITY.
- RELIGION OF THE MINORITY. SALVATIONISM.
- THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ATONEMENT AND PUNISHMENT
- SALVATION AT FIRST A CLASS PRIVILEGE
- AND THE REMEDY
- RETROSPECTIVE ATONEMENT, AND THE EXPECTATION OF THE REDEEMER
- COMPLETION OF THE SCHEME BY LUTHER AND CALVIN
- JOHN BARLEYCORN
- LOOKING FOR THE END OF THE WORLD
- THE HONOR OF DIVINE PARENTAGE
- MATTHEW.
- THE ANNUNCIATION: THE MASSACRE: THE FLIGHT
- JOHN THE BAPTIST
- JESUS JOINS THE BAPTISTS
- THE SAVAGE JOHN AND THE CIVILIZED JESUS
- JESUS NOT A PROSLETYST
- THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS.
- THE MIRACLES
- MATTHEW IMPUTES DIGNITY TO JESUS.
- THE GREAT CHANGE.
- JERUSALEM AND THE MYSTICAL SACRIFICE.
- NOT THIS MAN BUT BARRABAS
- THE RESURRECTION.
- DATE OF MATTHEW'S NARRATIVE.
- CLASS TYPE OF MATTHEW'S JESUS
- MARK.
- THE WOMEN DISCIPLES AND THE ASCENSION.
- LUKE.
- LUKE THE LITERARY ARTIST.
- THE CHARM OF LUKE'S NARRATIVE.
- THE TOUCH OF PARISIAN ROMANCE.
- WAITING FOR THE MESSIAH.
- JOHN.
- A NEW STORY AND A NEW CHARACTER.
- JOHN THE IMMORTAL EYEWITNESS.
- THE PECULIAR THEOLOGY OF JESUS.
- JOHN AGREED AS TO THE TRIAL AND CRUCIFIXION.
- CREDIBILITY OF THE GOSPELS.
- FASHIONS OF BELIEF.
- CREDIBILITY AND TRUTH.
- CHRISTIAN ICONOLATRY AND THE PERILS OF THE ICONOCLAST.
- THE ALTERNATIVE TO BARRABAS.
- THE REDUCTION TO MODERN PRACTICE OF CHRISTIANITY.
- MODERN COMMUNISM.
- REDISTRIBUTION.
- SHALL HE WHO MAKES, OWN.
- LABOR TIME.
- THE DREAM OF DISTRIBUTION ACCORDING TO MERIT.
- VITAL DISTRIBUTION.
- EQUAL DISTRIBUTION.
- THE CAPTAIN AND THE CABIN BOY.
- THE POLITICAL AND BIOLOGICAL OBJECTIONS TO INEQUALITY.
- JESUS AS ECONOMIST.
- JESUS AS BIOLOGIST.
- MONEY THE MIDWIFE OF SCIENTIFIC COMMUNISM.
- JUDGE NOT.
- LIMITS TO FREE WILL.
- JESUS ON MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY.
- WHY JESUS DID NOT MARRY.
- INCONSISTENCY OF THE SEX INSTINCT.
- FOR BETTER OR WORSE.
- THE CASE FOR MARRIAGE.
- CELIBACY NO REMEDY.
- AFTER THE CRUCIFIXION.
- THE VINDICTIVE MIRACLES AND THE STONING OF STEPHEN.
- PAUL.
- THE CONFUSION OF CHRISTENDOM.
- THE SECRET OF PAUL'S SUCCESS.
- PAUL'S QUALITIES
- THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES.
- THE CONTROVERSIES ON BAPTISM AND TRANSUBSTANTIATION.
- THE ALTERNATIVE CHRISTS.
- CREDULITY NO CRITERION.
- BELIEF IN PERSONAL IMMORTALITY NO CRITERION.
- THE SECULAR VIEW NATURAL, NOT RATIONAL, THEREFORE INEVITABLE.
- THE HIGHER CRITICISM.
- THE PERILS OF SALVATIONISM.
- THE IMPORTANCE OF HELL IN THE SALVATION SCHEME.
- THE RIGHT TO REFUSE ATONEMENT.
- THE TEACHING OF CHRISTIANITY.
- CHRISTIANITY AND THE EMPIRE.
- OVERRULED
- PREFACE TO OVERRULED.
- PREFACE TO MAJOR BARBARA: FIRST AID TO CRITICS
- THE GOSPEL OF ST. ANDREW UNDERSHAFT
- THE SALVATION ARMY
- BARBARA'S RETURN TO THE COLORS.
- WEAKNESSES OF THE SALVATION ARMY.
- CHRISTIANITY AND ANARCHISM
- SANE CONCLUSIONS
- PRESS CUTTINGS
- PYGMALION
- PREFACE TO PYGMALION.
- ACT I
- ACT II
- ACT III
- ACT IV
- ACT V
- PREFACE TO THE REVOLUTIONIST'S HANDBOOK
- AND YET
- JOHN TANNER
- ON GOOD BREEDING
- PROPERTY AND MARRIAGE
- THE PERFECTIONIST EXPERIMENT AT ONEIDA CREEK
- MAN'S OBJECTION TO HIS OWN IMPROVEMENT
- THE POLITICAL NEED FOR THE SUPERMAN
- PRUDERY EXPLAINED
- PROGRESS AN ILLUSION
- THE CONCEIT OF CIVILIZATION
- THE VERDICT OF HISTORY
- THE METHOD
- THE ADMIRABLE BASHVILLE OR, CONSTANCY UNREWARDED
- THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS
- PREFACE TO THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS
- How the Play came to be Written
- Thomas Tyler
- Frank Harris
- Harris "durch Mitleid wissend
- Sidney's Sister: Pembroke's Mother
- Shakespear's Social Standing
- This Side Idolatry
- Shakespear's Pessimism
- Gaiety of Genius
- Jupiter and Semele
- The Idol of the Bardolaters
- Shakespear's alleged Sycophancy and Perversion
- Shakespear and Democracy
- Shakespear and the British Public
- THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS
- THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE
- ACT I
- ACT II
- ACT III
- NOTES TO THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE
- THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA
- ACT I
- ACT II
- ACT III
- ACT IV
- ACT V
- THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA: PREFACE ON DOCTORS
- DOUBTFUL CHARACTER BORNE BY THE MEDICAL PROFESSION
- DOCTOR'S CONSCIENCES
- THE PECULIAR PEOPLE
- RECOIL OF THE DOGMA OF MEDICAL INFALLIBILITY ON THE DOCTOR
- WHY DOCTORS DO NOT DIFFER
- THE CRAZE FOR OPERATIONS
- CREDULITY AND CHLOROFORM
- MEDICAL POVERTY
- THE SUCCESSFUL DOCTOR
- THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SELF-RESPECT IN SURGEONS
- ARE DOCTORS MEN OF SCIENCE?
- BACTERIOLOGY AS A SUPERSTITION
- ECONOMIC DIFFICULTIES OF IMMUNIZATION
- THE PERILS OF INOCULATION
- DOCTORS AND VIVISECTION
- THE PRIMITIVE SAVAGE MOTIVE
- THE HIGHER MOTIVE. THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE.
- THE FLAW IN THE ARGUMENT
- LIMITATIONS OF THE RIGHT TO KNOWLEDGE
- A FALSE ALTERNATIVE
- OUR OWN CRUELTIES
- THE SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION OF CRUELTY
- ROUTINE
- THE OLD LINE BETWEEN MAN AND BEAST
- VIVISECTING THE HUMAN SUBJECT
- THE LIE IS A EUROPEAN POWER
- AN ARGUMENT WHICH WOULD DEFEND ANY CRIME
- THOU ART THE MAN
- WHAT THE PUBLIC WANTS AND WILL NOT GET
- THE VACCINATION CRAZE
- STATISTICAL ILLUSIONS
- THE SURPRISES OF ATTENTION AND NEGLECT
- STEALING CREDIT FROM CIVILIZATION
- BIOMETRIKA
- PATIENT-MADE THERAPEUTICS
- THE REFORMS ALSO COME FROM THE LAITY
- FASHIONS AND EPIDEMICS
- THE DOCTOR'S VIRTUES
- THE DOCTOR'S HARDSHIPS
- THE PUBLIC DOCTOR
- What then is to be done?
- MEDICAL ORGANIZATION
- THE SOCIAL SOLUTION OF THE MEDICAL PROBLEM
- THE FUTURE OF PRIVATE PRACTICE
- THE TECHNICAL PROBLEM
- THE LATEST THEORIES
- THE IMPOSSIBILITIES OF ANARCHISM
- THE INCA OF PERUSALEM: AN ALMOST HISTORICAL COMEDIETTA
- PROLOGUE
- THE PLAY
- THE IRRATIONAL KNOT
- TO THE AMERICAN EDITION OF 1905
- THE WATERS OF MARAH,
- BY ELINOR MCQUINCH.
- MARIAN.
- THE MAN OF DESTINY
- The Miraculous Revenge
- THE MIRACULOUS REVENGE
- THE PERFECT WAGNERITE A COMMENTARY ON THE NIBLUNG'S RING
- Preface to the First German Edition
- PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
- Preface to the First Edition
- THE PERFECT WAGNERITE
- PRELIMINARY ENCOURAGEMENTS
- THE RING OF THE NIBLUNGS
- THE RHINE GOLD
- WAGNER AS REVOLUTIONIST
- THE VALKYRIES
- SIEGFRIED
- BACK TO OPERA AGAIN
- SIEGFRIED AS PROTESTANT
- PANACEA QUACKERY, OTHERWISE IDEALISM
- DRAMATIC ORIGIN OF WOTAN
- THE LOVE PANACEA
- NOT LOVE, BUT LIFE
- ANARCHISM NO PANACEA
- SIEGFRIED CONCLUDED
- NIGHT FALLS ON THE GODS
- PROLOGUE
- A WAGNERIAN NEWSPAPER CONTROVERSY
- FORGOTTEN ERE FINISHED
- WHY HE CHANGED HIS MIND
- WAGNER'S OWN EXPLANATION
- THE PESSIMIST AS AMORIST
- THE MUSIC OF THE RING
- THE REPRESENTATIVE THEMES
- THE CHARACTERIZATION
- THE OLD AND THE NEW MUSIC
- THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
- THE MUSIC OF THE FUTURE
- BAYREUTH
- BAYREUTH IN ENGLAND
- WAGNERIAN SINGERS
- THE PHILANDERER
- ACT I
- ACT II
- ACT III
- ACT IV
- THE SHEWING-UP OF BLANCO POSNET
- THE CENSORSHIP
- A READABLE BLUEBOOK
- HOW NOT TO DO IT
- THE STORY OF THE JOINT SELECT COMMITTEE
- WHY THE MANAGERS LOVE THE CENSORSHIP
- A TWO GUINEA INSURANCE POLICY
- WHY THE GOVERNMENT INTERFERED
- THE PEERS ON THE JOINT SELECT COMMITTEE
- THE COMMITTEE'S ATTITUDE TOWARD THE THEATRE
- A BAD BEGINNING
- A COMIC INTERLUDE
- AN ANTI-SHAVIAN PANIC
- A RARE AND CURIOUS FIRST EDITION
- THE TIMES TO THE RESCUE
- THE COUNCIL OF TEN
- THE SENTENCE
- THE EXECUTION
- THE REJECTED STATEMENT
- PART I
- THE WITNESS'S QUALIFICATIONS
- THE DEFINITION OF IMMORALITY
- WHAT TOLERATION MEANS
- THE CASE FOR TOLERATION
- THE LIMITS TO TOLERATION
- THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LAW AND CENSORSHIP
- WHY THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN?
- THE DIPLOMATIC OBJECTION TO THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN
- THE OBJECTION OF COURT ETIQUET
- WHY NOT AN ENLIGHTENED CENSORSHIP?
- THE WEAKNESS OF THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S DEPARTMENT
- AN ENLIGHTENED CENSORSHIP STILL WORSE THAN THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S
- THE PRACTICAL IMPOSSIBILITIES OF CENSORSHIP
- THE ARBITRATION PROPOSAL
- THE REJECTED STATEMENT: PART TWO
- THE LICENSING OF THEATRES
- THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN LICENSING AND CENSORSHIP
- PROSTITUTION AND DRINK IN THEATRES
- WHY THE MANAGERS DREAD LOCAL CONTROL
- DESIRABLE LIMITATIONS OF LOCAL CONTROL
- SUMMARY
- PREFACE RESUMED
- MR. GEORGE ALEXANDER'S PROTEST
- ELIZA AND HER BATH
- A KING'S PROCTOR
- COUNSEL'S OPINION
- WANTED: A NEW MAGNA CHARTA
- PROPOSED: A NEW STAR CHAMBER
- POSSIBILITIES OF THE PROPOSAL
- STAR CHAMBER SENTIMENTALITY
- ANYTHING FOR A QUIET LIFE
- SHALL THE EXAMINER OF PLAYS STARVE?
- LORD GORELL'S AWAKENING
- JUDGES: THEIR PROFESSIONAL LIMITATIONS
- CONCLUSION
- THE SHEWING-UP OF BLANCO POSNET
- A TREATISE ON PARENTS AND CHILDREN
- PARENTS AND CHILDREN
- The Child is Father to the Man
- What is a Child?
- The Sin of Nadab and Abihu
- The Manufacture of Monsters
- Small and Large Families
- Children as Nuisances
- Child Fanciers
- Childhood as a State of Sin
- School
- My Scholastic Acquirements
- Schoolmasters of Genius
- What We Do Not Teach, and Why
- Taboo in Schools
- Alleged Novelties in Modern Schools
- What is to be Done?
- Children's Rights and Duties
- Should Children Earn their Living?
- Children's Happiness
- The Horror of the Perpetual Holiday
- University Schoolboyishness
- The New Laziness
- The Infinite School Task
- The Rewards and Risks of Knowledge
- English Physical Hardihood and Spiritual Cowardice
- The Risks of Ignorance and Weakness
- The Common Sense of Toleration
- The Sin of Athanasius
- The Experiment Experimenting
- Why We Loathe Learning and Love Sport
- Antichrist
- Under the Whip
- Technical Instruction
- Docility and Dependence
- The Abuse of Docility
- The Schoolboy and the Homeboy
- The Comings of Age of Children
- The Conflict of Wills
- The Demagogue's Opportunity
- Our Quarrelsomeness
- We Must Reform Society before we can Reform Ourselves
- The Pursuit of Manners
- Not too much Wind on the Heath, Brother
- Wanted: a Child's Magna Charta
- The Pursuit of Learning
- Children and Game: a Proposal
- The Parents' Intolerable Burden
- Mobilization
- Children's Rights and Parents' Wrongs
- How Little We Know About Our Parents
- Our Abandoned Mothers
- Family Affection
- The Fate of the Family
- Family Mourning
- Art Teaching
- The Impossibility of Secular Education
- Natural Selection as a Religion
- Moral Instruction Leagues
- The Bible
- Artist Idolatry
- The Machine
- The Provocation to Anarchism
- Imagination
- Government by Bullies
- YOU NEVER CAN TELL
- ACT I
- ACT II
- ACT III
- ACT IV
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