List of works by George Bernard Shaw

This is a list of George Bernard Shaw's writings.

Novels

Title¹	Written	Printed	First Publisher	Link
Immaturity	October 1879	1930 (Ltd. Ed.), 1931 (Std. Ed.)	Constable and Company, Ltd., London	*
The Irrational Knot	1880	1885-8	Our Corner (Annie Besant's Socialist Magazine)	s:The Irrational Knot
Love Among the Artists	1881	1887-8 (Serial); 1932 (Book)	Our Corner (Annie Besant's Socialist Magazine)	s:Love Among the Artists
Cashel Byron's Profession	1882	1885-6 (Serial); 1901 (Book)	To-Day (Henry Hyde Champion's Socialist periodical)	s:Cashel Byron's Profession
An Unsocial Socialist	1883	1884 (Serial); 1887 (Book)	To-Day (Henry Hyde Champion's Socialist periodical)	s:An Unsocial Socialist

¹All of the novels are included in The Standard Edition of the Works of Bernard Shaw;
a collection published by Constable and Company, Limited (London)

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Plays

Title	Written	Premiere	Printed	Remarks	Links
Passion Play	1878			Obscure fragment
Un Petit Drame	1884		1958	One act playlet
Widowers' Houses	1892	1892	1893	First successful play	s:Widowers' Houses
The Philanderer	1893	1905	1898	Woman hunts; man is the prey.	s:The Philanderer
Mrs. Warren's Profession	1893	1902	1898	Created public uproar because prostitution was realistically discussed	s:Mrs. Warren's Profession
Arms and the Man	1893–94	1894	1898	In war and love, pragmatism beats bravado.	[1]
Candida	1895	1895	1898	A woman chooses the man who needs her most over the one who loves her most	s:Candida
The Man of Destiny	1895	1897	1898	Cherchez la femme.	s:The Man of Destiny
You Never Can Tell	1896	1899	1898	Comedy for comedy's sake	s:You Never Can Tell
The Devil's Disciple	1896	1897	1901	A melodrama drawn from the American Revolution. Shaw's only full-length play with a solely American locale.	s:The Devil's Disciple
The Gadfly: or The Son of the Cardinal	1898	1898	1898
Caesar and Cleopatra	1898	1906	1901	The game is not romance but politics.	s:Caesar and Cleopatra
Captain Brassbound's Conversion	1898	1900	1901	The lady's trustfulness can melt any villain's heart.	s:Captain Brassbound's Conversion
The Admirable Bashville, or Constancy Unrewarded	1901	1903	1909	Derived from Cashel Byron's Profession but not a stage version of that novel	s:The Admirable Bashville
Man and Superman	1901–03	1905	1903	Epic flight of a Socialist reformer hoping to escape a woman bent on marriage	s:Man and Superman
Don Juan in Hell: Act III of Man and Superman	1903	1907	1903	A dream sequence revises the Don Juan legend; it is often produced as a separate play.	s:Man and Superman
John Bull's Other Island	1904	1904	1907	An Irishman's view of Edwardian England	s:John Bull's Other Island
How He Lied to Her Husband	1904	1904	1907	Satirizes Candida. The heroine, Aurora, strong as to flesh, finds her spirit weak.	s:How He Lied to Her Husband
Major Barbara	1905	1905	1907	The online version includes the preface; click on "Essay as First Aid to Critics"	s:Major Barbara
Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction	1905	1905	1905	A one-act farce intended for cheap and easy productions to benefit The Actors' Orphanage	s:Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction
The Doctor's Dilemma	1906	1906	1911	When the doctor can cure only one, either an artistic genius or a mundane but deserving friend, whom should he choose?	s:The Doctor’s Dilemma
The Interlude at the Playhouse	1907	1907	1907	Extremely humorous one-scene playlet	s:The interlude at the Playhouse
Getting Married	1908	1908	1911	Matrimony from the Shavian point of view	s:Getting Married
The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet. Sermon in crude melodrama	1909	1909	1911	Random acts of kindness help the world go down.	s:The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet
Press Cuttings	1909	1909	1909	Burlesques the conservative male reaction to the threat of Women's Suffrage	s:Press Cuttings
Fascinating Foundling: Disgrace to the author	1909	1928	1926	No in-laws, please!	[2]
The Glimpse of Reality A Tragedietta	1909	1927	1926	Reality in the 14th century, perhaps.	[3]
Misalliance	1909	1910	1914	Supplement to Getting Married	s:Misalliance
The Dark Lady of the Sonnets	1910	1910	1914	Fundraiser to help establish National Theatre as memorial for Shakespeare	s:Dark Lady of the Sonnets
Fanny's First Play	1910	1911	1914	Shaw called it a "potboiler"	s:Fanny's First Play
Androcles and the Lion	1912	1913	1914	Martyrdom for fun and profit	s:Androcles and the Lion
Overruled: A Demonstration	1912	1913	1916	Not an argument for or against polygamy	s:Overruled (Shaw)
Beauty's Duty	1913		1934	There is no record of this playlet being staged.	[4]
Pygmalion	1912	1913	1914	From guttersnipe to great lady, with lingering regrets. The basis for the musical My Fair Lady.	s:Pygmalion
Great Catherine	1913	1913	1919	Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.	s:Great Catherine
The Music Cure	1913	1914	1926	Nonsense, Shaw called it.	s:The Music Cure
O'Flaherty V.C.	1915	1920	1920	For an Irishman, war is a respite from the stress of homelife.	s:O'Flaherty, V.C.
The Inca of Perusalem	1916	1916	1919	An almost historical comedietta	s:The Inca of Perusalem
Augustus Does His Bit	1916	1917	1919	Satirizes bureaucrats	s:Augustus Does His Bit
Macbeth Skit	1916		1967	Published in Educational Theatre Journal (1967) with an introduction by B. F. Dukore
Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress	1917	1918	1919	Revolutionary romancelet	s:Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress
Heartbreak House	1913-19	1920	1919	Fantasia in the Russian manner on English themes	s:Heartbreak House
Back to Methuselah A Metabiological Pentateuch	1918-20	1922	1921	«Preface» and 5 plays: «In the Beginning», «The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas», «The Thing Happens», «Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman» and « As Far as Thought Can Reach».	s:Back to Methuselah
A Glimpse of the Domesticity of Franklyn Barnabas.	1920	1960	1932	First version of Back to Methuselah's Act II
Jitta's Atonement	1922	1929	1926	Shaw's translation from German of a play by Siegfried Trebitsch
Saint Joan	1923	1923	1924	Shaw's soul shows between the lines	[5]
The Apple Cart	1929	1929	1930	The flaws in democracy explored.	[6]
Too True to Be Good	1931	1932	1932	Regarding the miseries of wealth.	[7]
Village Wooing	1933	1934	1934	Comedietta for two voices	[8]
On the Rocks	1933	1933	1934	Unrest during the Great Depression	[9]
The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles	1934	1935	1936	The Useful Will Be Spared	[10]
The Six of Calais	1934	1934	1936	No message, just a great story	[11]
The Millionairess	1934	1936	1936	Earning money is a talent	[12]
Arthur and the Acetone	1935		1936	Broad satire of bureaucracy	[13]
Cymbeline Refinished	1937	1937	1938	A revised Act V for Shakespeare's Cymbeline	[14]
Geneva	1938	1938	1939	A fancied page of history.	[15]
In Good King Charles's Golden Days	1939	1939	1939	A true history that never happened.	[16]
The British Party System	1944	Never	1944	This playlet is Chapter III of Everybody's Political What's What?	[17]
Buoyant Billions	1947	1949	1947	Comedy of no manners	[18]
Farfetched Fables	1948-50	1950	1951	Shaw's thoughts simplified	[19]
Shakes versus Shav	1949	1949	1949	Puppets of Shaw and Shakespeare argue about who is the better playwright	[20]
Why She Would Not	1950		1956	Unfinished play. Shaw died while writing it.	[21]

Other works

Title	Written	Printed	Remarks	Links
The Perfect Wagnerite	1883	1898	Philosophical commentary on Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen	[22]
Quintessence of Ibsenism	1891	1891	Significantly expanded in 1913.
Commonsense About the War	-	1914	-
The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism	-	1928	-
Everybody's Political What's What	-	1944	imagination	-