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- Cover
- Series page
- Playlets
- Copyright
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Introduction
- Note on the Text
- Select Bibliography
- Editions
- Biography
- General Studies
- Criticism on Farces
- Criticism on War Playlets
- Criticism on Historical Sketches
- Criticism on Shakespearean Shorts
- Further Reading in Oxford World's Classics
- A Chronology of George Bernard Shaw
- Abbreviations
- Farces
- How he Lied to her Husband
- Preface
- How he Lied to her Husband
- Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction or The Fatal Gazogene: A Brief Tragedy for Barns and Booths
- Preface
- Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction
- Press Cuttings
- Preface
- Press Cuttings
- Overruled
- Preface
- The Alleviations of Monogamy
- Inaccessibility of the Facts
- The Convention of Jealousy
- The Missing Data of a Scientific Natural History of Marriage
- Artificial Retribution
- The Favorite Subject of Farcical Comedy
- The Pseudo Sex Play
- Art and Morality
- The Limits of Stage Presentation
- Pruderies of the French Stage
- Our Disillusive* Scenery
- Holding the Mirror up to Nature
- Farcical Comedy Shrinking its Subject
- Overruled
- War Playlets
- The Inca of Perusalem: An Almost Historical Comedietta
- Preface
- The Inca of Perusalem
- Prologue
- The Play
- O'Flaherty V.C.: A Recruiting Pamphlet
- Preface
- O'Flaherty V.C.
- Augustus Does His Bit: A True-To-Life Farce
- Preface
- Augustus Does His Bit
- Annajanska, The Bolshevik Empress: A Revolutionary Romancelet
- Preface
- Annajanska, The Bolshevik Empress
- Historical Sketches
- The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet: A Sermon In Crude Melodrama
- Preface
- 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 towards 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 II
- 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
- 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
- Great Catherine (Whom Glory Still Adores)
- The Author's Apology for Great Catherine
- Great Catherine (Whom Glory Still Adores)
- The First Scene
- The Second Scene
- The Third Scene
- The Fourth Scene
- The Six of Calais
- Prefatory to The Six of Calais
- The Six of Calais
- The British Party System
- Shakespearean Shorts
- The Dark Lady of the Sonnets
- Preface
- How the Play came to be Written
- Thomas Tyler
- Frank Harris
- Harris 'durche 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
- Postscript 1933
- The Dark Lady of the Sonnets
- Macbeth Skit
- Scene V
- Cymbeline Refinished: A Variation on Shakespear's Ending
- Foreword
- Cymbeline Refinished
- Act V
- Shakes Versus Shav: A Puppet Play
- Preface
- Shakes Versus Sha
- Appendix A: Material Cut From The Play: How He Lied to Her Husband
- Appendix B: Material Cut From The Play: Press Cuttings
- Explanatory Notes
- How He Lied To Her Husband
- Passion, Poison, And Petrifaction
- Press Cuttings
- Overrruled
- The Inca of Perusalem
- O'Flaherty V.C.
- Augustus Does His Bit
- Annajanska, The Bolshevik Empress
- The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet
- Great Catherine (Whom Glory Still Adores)
- The Six of Calais
- The British Party System
- The Dark Lady of the Sonnets
- Macbeth Skit
- Cymbeline Refinished
- Shakes Versus Shav
- Appenix A
- Appedix B
- End Adds
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