Works by Bernard Shaw

See below all of Bernard Shaw’s works and their electronic text version.

Critical Essays

The Perfect Wagnerite

• Written in 1883
• Published in 1898
• Electronic text

The Quintessence of Ibsenism

• Written in 1891
• Published in 1891
• Electronic text

Maxims for Revolutionists

• Published in 1903
• Electronic text

Preface to Major Barbara

• Published in 1905
• Electronic text

“On Going to Church”

• Published in 1905
• Electronic text

How to Write a Popular Play

• Published in 1909
• Electronic text

Treatise on Parents and Children

• Published in 1910
• Electronic text

Commonsense About the War

• Published in 1914
• Electronic text

Bernard Shaw on Modern Typography

• Published in 1915
• Electronic text

The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism

• Published in 1928
• Electronic text

Essays in Fabian Socialism

• Published in 1931
• Electronic text

Pen Portraits and Reviews

• Published in 1931
• Electronic text

Doctors’ Delusions, Crude Criminology, Sham Education

•  Published in 1931
• Electronic text

Short Stories, Scraps and Shavings

• Published in 1932
• Electronic text

Our Theatres in the Nineties

• Published in 1932
• Electronic text – Volume I
• Electronic text – Volume II

The Political Madhouse in America and Nearer Home

• Publised in 1933
• Electronic text

Everybody’s Political What’s What

• Published in 1944
• Electronic text

Sixteen Self Sketches

• Published in 1949
• Electronic text

Novels

Immaturity

• Written in 1879
• Published in 1930
• Electronic text

The Irrational Knot

• Written in 1880
• Published in 1905
• Electronic text

Love Amongst the Artists (Book)

• Written in 1881
• Published in 1900
• Electronic text

Cashel Byron’s Profession (Book)

• Written in 1882
• Published in 1901
• Electronic text

The Unsocialist Socialist (Book)

• Written in 1883
• Published in 1887 
• Electronic text

Plays

My Dear Dorothea: A Practical System of Moral Education for Females Embodied in a Letter to a Young Person of that Sex 

• Written in 1878
• Published in 1906 – 1956
• Electronic text

Passion Play

• Written in 1878
• Published in 1971
• Electronic text – to be updated

Un Petit Drame

• Written in 1884
• Published in 1959
• Electronic text – to be updated

Widowers’ Houses

• Written in 18884 – 1892
• Published in 1893
• Electronic text

The Philanderer

• Written in 1893
• Published in 1898
• Electronic text

Mrs. Warren’s Profession

• Written in 1894
• Published in 1898
• Electronic text

Arms and the Man

• Written in 1894
• Published in 1898
• Electronic text

Candida

• Written in 1895
• Published in 1898
• Electronic text

The Man of Destiny

• Written in 1895
• Published in 1898
• Electronic text

You Can Never Tell

• Written in 1896
• Published in 1897
• Electronic text

The Devil’s Disciple

• Written in 1897
• Published in 1901
• Electronic text

The Gadfly / The Son of the Cardinal

• Written in 1897 – 1898
• Never published

Caesar and Cleopatra

• Written in 1898
• Published in 1901
• Electronic text

Captain Brassbound’s Conversion

• Written in 1899
• Published in 1901
• Electronic text

The Admirable Bashville / Constancy Unrewarded

• Written in 1901
• Published in 1909
• Electronic text

Man and Superman

• Written in 1903
• Published in 1903
• Electronic text
  • Appendix I: The Revolutionist’s Handbook and Pocket Companion – Electronic text
  • Appendix II: Maxims for Revolutionists – Electronic text (also found in Shaw’s Critical Essays)

John Bull’s Other Island

• Written in 1904
• Published in 1907
• Electronic text

How He Lied to Her Husband

• Written in 1904
• Published in 1907
• Electronic text

Major Barbara

• Written in 1905
• Published in 1907
• Electronic text

Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction / The Fatal Gazogene

• Written in 1905
• Published in 1905
• Electronic text

The Doctor’s Dilemma

• Written in 1906
• Published in 1911
• Electronic text

The Interlude at the Playhouse

• Written in 1907
• Published in 1907
• Electronic text

Getting Married

• Written in 1908
• Published in 1908
• Electronic text

The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet: A Sermon in Crude Melodrama

• Written in 1909
• Published in 1911
• Electronic text

Press Cuttings

• Written in 1909
• Published in 1909
• Electronic text

The Fascinating Foundling: A Disgrace to the Author

• Written in 1909
• Published in 1926
• Electronic text

The Glimpse of Reality: A Tragedietta

• Written in 1909
• Published in 1926
• Electronic text

Misalliance

• Written in 1909 – 1910
• Published in 1914
• Electronic text

The Dark Lady of the Sonnets

• Written in 1910
• Published in 1914
• Electronic text

Fanny’s First Play

• Written in 1911
• Published in 1914
• Electronic text

Androcles and the Lion

• Written in 1912
• Published in 1914
• Electronic text

Overruled: A Demonstration

• Written in 1912
• Published in 1916
• Electronic text

Pygmalion

• Written in 1912 – 1913
• Published in 1914
• Electronic text

Beauty’s Duty

• Written in 1913
• Published in 1934
• Electronic text – to be updated

Great Catherine (Whom Glory Still Adores)

• Written in 1913
• Published 1919
• Electronic text

The Music Cure

• Written in 1913
• Published in 1926
• Electronic text

Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes

• Written in 1913 – 1916
• Published in 1919
• Electronic text

O’Flaherty V.C.

• Written in 1915
• Published in 1920
• Electronic text

The Inca of Perusalem: An Almost Historical Comedietta

• Written in 1916
• Published in 1919
• Electronic text

Augustus Does His Bit: A True-To-Life Farce

• Written in 1916
• Published in 1919
• Electronic text

Macbeth Skit

• Written in 1916
• Published in 1967
• Electronic text – to be updated

Annajanska, The Bolshevik Empress

• Written in 1917
• Published in 1919
• Electronic text

Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch

• Written in 1918 – 1920
• Published in 1921
• Electronic text

A Glimpse of the Domesticity of Franklin Barnabas

• Written in 1920
• Published in 1932
• Electronic text – to be updated

Jitta’s Atonement

• Written in 1922 – 1923
• Published in 1926
• Electronic text – to be updated

Saint Joan

• Written in 1923
• Published in 1924
• Electronic text

The Apple Cart: A Political Extravaganza

• Written in 1928 – 1929
• Published in 1930
• Electronic text

Too True to be Good

• Written in 1931
• Published in 1932
• Electronic text

Village Wooing

• Written in 1933
• Published in 1934
• Electronic text

On the Rocks

• Written in 1933
• Published in 1934
• Electronic text

The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles

• Written in 1934
• Published in 1936
• Electronic text

The Six of Calais

• Written in 1934
• Published in 1936
• Electronic text

The Millionairess

• Written in 1934
• Published in 1936
• Electronic text

Arthur and the Acetone

• Written in 1935
• Published in 1936
• Electronic text – to be updated

Cymbeline Refinished

• Written in 1937
• Published in 1938
• Electronic text

Geneva

• Written in 1938
• Published in 1939
• Electronic text

In Good King Charles’s Golden Days

• Written in 1939
• Published in 1939
• Electronic text

The British Party System

• Written in 1944
• Published in 1944
• Electronic text – to be updated

Buoyant Billions: A Comedy of No Manners

• Written in 1947
• Published in 1947
• Electronic text

Farfetched Fables

• Written in 1948 – 1950
• Published in 1951
• Electronic text – to be updated

Shakes versus Shav

• Written in 1949
• Published in 1949
• Electronic text

Why She Would Not: A Little Comedy

• Written in 1950
• Published in 1956
• Electronic text

Short Stories

The Miraculous Revenge

• Published in 1885
• Electronic text

The Black Girl in Search of God

• Published in 1932 – 1933
• Electronic text