6The Progressive
420FOR BETTER OR WORSE
7The Critic
421THE CASE FOR MARRIAGE
8The Dramatist
422CELIBACY NO REMEDY
9The Philosopher
423AFTER THE CRUCIFIXION
10Widowers’ Houses (1892)
424THE VINDICTIVE MIRACLES AND THE STONING OF STEPHEN
11ACT I
425PAUL
12ACT II
426THE CONFUSION OF CHRISTENDOM.
13ACT III
427THE SECRET OF PAUL’S SUCCESS
14The Philanderer (1898)
428PAUL’S QUALITIES
15ACT I
429THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES.
16ACT II
430THE CONTROVERSIES ON BAPTISM AND TRANSUBSTANTIATION.
17ACT III
431THE ALTERNATIVE CHRISTS.
18ACT IV
432CREDULITY NO CRITERION.
19Mrs. Warren’s Profession (1898)
433BELIEF IN PERSONAL IMMORTALITY NO CRITERION.
20THE AUTHOR’S APOLOGY
434THE SECULAR VIEW NATURAL, NOT RATIONAL, THEREFORE INEVITABLE.
21ACT I
435“THE HIGHER CRITICISM.”
22ACT II
436THE PERILS OF SALVATIONISM.
23ACT III
437THE IMPORTANCE OF HELL IN THE SALVATION SCHEME.
24ACT IV
438THE RIGHT TO REFUSE ATONEMENT.
25The Man Of Destiny (1897)
439THE TEACHING OF CHRISTIANITY.
26Arms And The Man: An Anti-Romantic Comedy in Three Acts (1894)
440CHRISTIANITY AND THE EMPIRE.
27INTRODUCTION
441PROLOGUE
28ACT I
442ACT I
29ACT II
443ACT II
30ACT III
444Afterword
31Candida (1898)
445PREFACE TO OVERRULED
32ACT I
446THE ALLEVIATIONS OF MONOGAMY
33ACT II
447INACCESSIBILITY OF THE FACTS
34ACT III
448THE CONVENTION OF JEALOUSY
35You Never Can Tell (1897)
449THE MISSING DATA OF A SCIENTIFIC NATURAL HISTORY OF MARRIAGE
36ACT I
450ARTIFICIAL RETRIBUTION
37ACT II
451THE FAVORITE SUBJECT OF FARCICAL COMEDY
38ACT III
452THE PSEUDO SEX PLAY
39ACT IV
453ART AND MORALITY
40The Devil’s Disciple (1897)
454THE LIMITS OF STAGE PRESENTATION
41ACT I
455PRUDERIES OF THE FRENCH STAGE
42ACT II
456OUR DISILLUSIVE SCENERY
43ACT III
457HOLDING THE MIRROR UP TO NATURE
44NOTES TO THE DEVIL’S DISCIPLE
458FARCICAL COMEDY SHIRKING ITS SUBJECT
45BURGOYNE
459OVERRULED (PLAY)
46BRUDENELL
460PREFACE TO PYGMALION
47Captain Brassbound’s Conversion (1900)
461ACT I
48ACT I
462ACT II
49ACT II
463ACT III
50ACT III
464ACT IV
51NOTES TO CAPTAIN BRASSBOUND’S CONVERSION
465ACT V
52SOURCES OF THE PLAY
466APPENDIX
53ENGLISH AND AMERICAN DIALECTS
467THE AUTHOR’S APOLOGY FOR GREAT CATHERINE
54PROLOGUE
468THE FIRST SCENE
55AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE PROLOGUE
469THE SECOND SCENE
56ACT I
470THE THIRD SCENE
57ACT II
471THE FOURTH SCENE
58ACT III
472The Music Cure (1913)
59ACT IV
473Beauty’s Duty (Unfinished) (1913)
60ACT V
474O’Flaherty, V. C. (1915)
61NOTES TO CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA
475A RECRUITING PAMPHLET
62CLEOPATRA’S CURE FOR BALDNESS
476O’FLAHERTY V.C. (PLAY)
63APPARENT ANACHRONISMS
477Macbeth Skit (unfinished): ACT I. SCENE V.
64CLEOPATRA
478Glastonbury Skit (unfinished) (1916)
65BRITANNUS
479The Inca Of Perusalem: An Almost Historical Comedietta (1916)
66JULIUS CAESAR
480PROLOGUE
67The Gadfly Or The Son of the Cardinal (1898)
481INCA OF PERUSALEM (PLAY)
68ACT I.
482Augustus Does His Bit (1916)
69ACT II.
483PREFACE
70ACT III.
484AUGUSTUS DOES HIS BIT (PLAY)
71ACT IV.
485Skit For The Tiptaft Revue (1917)
72SCENE I
486Annajanska, The Bolshevik Empress (1917): ANNAJANSKA, THE BOLSHEVIK EMPRESS (PLAY)
73SCENE II
487HEARTBREAK HOUSE AND HORSEBACK HALL
74PREFACE
488Where Heartbreak House Stands
75ACT I
489The Inhabitants
76ACT II
490Horseback Hall
77Scene I
491Revolution on the Shelf
78Scene II
492The Cherry Orchard
79ACT IV
493Nature’s Long Credits
80NOTE ON MODERN PRIZEFIGHTING
494The Wicked Half Century
81EPISTLE DEDICATORY TO ARTHUR BINGHAM WALKLEY
495Hypochondria
82ACT I
496Those who do not know how to live must make a Merit of Dying
83ACT II
497War Delirium
84ACT III (pt. 1)
498Madness in Court
85ACT III (pt. 2)
499The Long Arm of War
86ACT IV
500The Rabid Watchdogs of Liberty
87John Bull’s Other Island (1904)
501The Sufferings of the Sane
88ACT I
502Evil in the Throne of Good
89ACT II
503Straining at the Gnat and swallowing the Camel
90ACT III
504Little Minds and Big Battles
91ACT IV
505The Dumb Capables and the Noisy Incapables
92How He Lied To Her Husband (1904)
506The Practical Business Men
93PREFACE
507How the Fools shouted the Wise Men down
94HOW HE LIED TO HER HUSBAND (PLAY)
508The Mad Election
95PREFACE TO MAJOR BARBARA: FIRST AID TO CRITICS
509The Yahoo and the Angry Ape
96THE GOSPEL OF ST. ANDREW UNDERSHAFT
510Plague on Both your Houses!
97THE SALVATION ARMY
511How the Theatre fared
98BARBARA’S RETURN TO THE COLORS.
512The Soldier at the Theatre Front
99WEAKNESSES OF THE SALVATION ARMY.
513Heartbreak House
100CHRISTIANITY AND ANARCHISM
514Commerce in the Theatre
101SANE CONCLUSIONS
515Unser Shakespeare
102ACT I
516The Higher Drama put out of Action
103ACT II
517Church and Theatre
104ACT III
518The Next Phase
105Passion, Poison, And Petrifaction (1905): OR, THE FATAL GAZOGENE
519The Ephemeral Thrones and the Eternal Theatre
106PREFACE
520How War muzzles the Dramatic Poet
107DOUBTFUL CHARACTER BORNE BY THE MEDICAL PROFESSION
521ACT I
108DOCTOR’S CONSCIENCES
522ACT II
109THE PECULIAR PEOPLE
523ACT III
110RECOIL OF THE DOGMA OF MEDICAL INFALLIBILITY ON THE DOCTOR
524PREFACE
111WHY DOCTORS DO NOT DIFFER
525The Infidel Half Century
112THE CRAZE FOR OPERATIONS
526THE DAWN OF DARWINISM
113CREDULITY AND CHLOROFORM
527THE ADVENT OF THE NEO-DARWINIANS
114MEDICAL POVERTY
528POLITICAL INADEQUACY OF THE HUMAN ANIMAL
115THE SUCCESSFUL DOCTOR
529COWARDICE OF THE IRRELIGIOUS
116THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SELFRESPECT IN SURGEONS
530IS THERE ANY HOPE IN EDUCATION?
117ARE DOCTORS MEN OF SCIENCE?
531HOMEOPATHIC EDUCATION
118BACTERIOLOGY AS A SUPERSTITION
532THE DIABOLICAL EFFICIENCY OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION
119ECONOMIC DIFFICULTIES OF IMMUNIZATION
533FLIMSINESS OF CIVILIZATION
120THE PERILS OF INOCULATION
534CREATIVE EVOLUTION
121TRADE UNIONISM AND SCIENCE
535VOLUNTARY LONGEVITY
122DOCTORS AND VIVISECTION
536THE EARLY EVOLUTIONISTS
123THE PRIMITIVE SAVAGE MOTIVE
537THE ADVENT OF THE NEO-LAMARCKIANS
124THE HIGHER MOTIVE. THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE.
538HOW ACQUIREMENTS ARE INHERITED
125THE FLAW IN THE ARGUMENT
539THE MIRACLE OF CONDENSED RECAPITULATION
126LIMITATIONS OF THE RIGHT TO KNOWLEDGE
540HEREDITY AN OLD STORY
127A FALSE ALTERNATIVE
541DISCOVERY ANTICIPATED BY DIVINATION
128CRUELTY FOR ITS OWN SAKE
542CORRECTED DATES FOR THE DISCOVERY OF EVOLUTION
129OUR OWN CRUELTIES
543DEFYING THE LIGHTNING: A FRUSTRATED EXPERIMENT
130THE SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION OF CRUELTY
544IN QUEST OF THE FIRST CAUSE
131SUGGESTED LABORATORY TESTS OF THE VIVISECTOR’S EMOTIONS
545PALEY’S WATCH
132ROUTINE
546THE IRRESISTIBLE CRY OF ORDER, ORDER!
133THE OLD LINE BETWEEN MAN AND BEAST
547THE MOMENT AND THE MAN
134VIVISECTING THE HUMAN SUBJECT
548THE BRINK OF THE BOTTOMLESS PIT
135“THE LIE IS A EUROPEAN POWER”
549WHY DARWIN CONVERTED THE CROWD
136AN ARGUMENT WHICH WOULD DEFEND ANY CRIME
550HOW WE RUSHED DOWN A STEEP PLACE
137THOU ART THE MAN
551DARWINISM NOT FINALLY REFUTABLE
138WHAT THE PUBLIC WANTS AND WILL NOT GET
552THREE BLIND MICE
139THE VACCINATION CRAZE
553THE GREATEST OF THESE IS SELFCONTROL
140STATISTICAL ILLUSIONS
554A SAMPLE OF LAMARCKO-SHAVIAN INVECTIVE
141THE SURPRISES OF ATTENTION AND NEGLECT
555THE HUMANITARIANS AND THE PROBLEM OF EVIL
142STEALING CREDIT FROM CIVILIZATION
556HOW ONE TOUCH OF DARWIN MAKES THE WHOLE WORLD KIN
143BIOMETRIKA
557WHY DARWIN PLEASED THE SOCIALISTS
144PATIENT-MADE THERAPEUTICS
558DARWIN AND KARL MARX
145THE REFORMS ALSO COME FROM THE LAITY
559WHY DARWIN PLEASED THE PROFITEERS ALSO
146FASHIONS AND EPIDEMICS
560THE POETRY AND PURITY OF MATERIALISM
147THE DOCTOR’S VIRTUES
561THE VICEROYS OF THE KING OF KINGS
148THE DOCTOR’S HARDSHIPS
562POLITICAL OPPORTUNISM IN EXCELSIS
149THE PUBLIC DOCTOR
563THE BETRAYAL OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION
150MEDICAL ORGANIZATION
564CIRCUMSTANTIAL SELECTION IN FINANCE
151THE SOCIAL SOLUTION OF THE MEDICAL PROBLEM
565THE HOMEOPATHIC REACTION AGAINST DARWINISM
152THE FUTURE OF PRIVATE PRACTICE
566RELIGION AND ROMANCE
153THE TECHNICAL PROBLEM
567THE DANGER OF REACTION
154THE LATEST THEORIES
568A TOUCHSTONE FOR DOGMA
155ACT I
569WHAT TO DO WITH THE LEGENDS
156ACT II
570A LESSON FROM SCIENCE TO THE CHURCHES
157ACT III
571THE RELIGIOUS ART OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
158ACT IV
572THE ARTIST-PROPHETS
159ACT V
573EVOLUTION IN THE THEATRE
160The Interlude At The Playhouse (1907)
574MY OWN PART IN THE MATTER
161PREFACE TO GETTING MARRIED
575PART I. In the Beginning
162THE REVOLT AGAINST MARRIAGE
576ACT I
163MARRIAGE NEVERTHELESS INEVITABLE
577ACT II
164WHAT DOES THE WORD MARRIAGE MEAN
578PART II. The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas
165SURVIVALS OF SEX SLAVERY
579PART III. The Thing Happens
166A NEW ATTACK ON MARRIAGE
580PART IV. Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman
167A FORGOTTEN CONFERENCE OF MARRIED MEN
581ACT I
168HEARTH AND HOME
582ACT II
169TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING
583ACT III
170LARGE AND SMALL FAMILIES
584ACT IV
171THE GOSPEL OF LAODICEA
585PART V. As Far as Thought Can Reach
172FOR BETTER FOR WORSE
586The War Indemnities (unfinished) (1921)
173WANTED: AN IMMORAL STATESMAN
587Preface
174THE LIMITS OF DEMOCRACY
588JOAN THE ORIGINAL AND PRESUMPTUOUS
175THE SCIENCE AND ART OF POLITICS
589JOAN AND SOCRATES
176WHY STATESMEN SHIRK THE MARRIAGE QUESTION
590CONTRAST WITH NAPOLEON
177THE QUESTION OF POPULATION
591WAS JOAN INNOCENT OR GUILTY?
178THE RIGHT TO MOTHERHOOD
592JOAN'S GOOD LOOKS
179MONOGAMY, POLYGYNY AND POLYANDRY
593JOAN'S SOCIAL POSITION
180THE MALE REVOLT AGAINST POLYGYNY
594JOAN'S VOICES AND VISIONS
181DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ORIENTAL AND OCCIDENTAL POLYGYNY
595THE EVOLUTIONARY APPETITE
182THE OLD MAID’S RIGHT TO MOTHERHOOD
596THE MERE ICONOGRAPHY DOES NOT MATTER
183IBSEN’S CHAIN STITCH
597THE MODERN EDUCATION WHICH JOAN ESCAPED
184REMOTENESS OF THE FACTS FROM THE IDEAL
598FAILURES OF THE VOICES
185DIFFICULTY OF OBTAINING EVIDENCE
599JOAN A GALTONIC VISUALIZER
186MARRIAGE AS A MAGIC SPELL
600JOAN'S MANLINESS AND MILITARISM
187THE IMPERSONALITY OF SEX
601WAS JOAN SUICIDAL?
188THE ECONOMIC SLAVERY OF WOMEN
602JOAN SUMMED UP
189UNPOPULARITY OF IMPERSONAL VIEWS
603JOAN'S IMMATURITY AND IGNORANCE
190IMPERSONALITY IS NOT PROMISCUITY
604THE MAID IN LITERATURE
191DOMESTIC CHANGE OF AIR
605PROTESTANT MISUNDERSTANDINGS OF THE MIDDLE AGES
192HOME MANNERS ARE BAD MANNERS
606COMPARATIVE FAIRNESS OF JOAN'S TRIAL
193SPURIOUS “NATURAL” AFFECTION
607JOAN NOT TRIED AS A POLITICAL OFFENDER
194CARRYING THE WAR INTO THE ENEMY’S COUNTRY
608THE CHURCH UNCOMPROMISED BY ITS AMENDS
195SHELLEY AND QUEEN VICTORIA
609CRUELTY, MODERN AND MEDIEVAL
196A PROBABLE EFFECT OF GIVING WOMEN THE VOTE
610CATHOLIC ANTI-CLERICALISM
197THE PERSONAL SENTIMENTAL BASIS OF MONOGAMY
611CATHOLICISM NOT YET CATHOLIC ENOUGH
198DIVORCE
612THE LAW OF CHANGE IS THE LAW OF GOD
199IMPORTANCE OF SENTIMENTAL GRIEVANCE
613CREDULITY, MODERN AND MEDIEVAL
200DIVORCE WITHOUT ASKING WHY
614TOLERATION, MODERN AND MEDIEVAL
201ECONOMIC SLAVERY AGAIN THE ROOT DIFFICULTY
615VARIABILITY OP TOLERATION
202LABOR EXCHANGES AND THE WHITE SLAVERY
616THE CONFLICT BETWEEN GENIUS AND DISCIPLINE
203CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE
617JOAN AS THEOCRAT
204DIVORCE A SACRAMENTAL DUTY
618UNBROKEN SUCCESS ESSENTIAL IN THEOCRACY
205OTHELLO AND DESDEMONA
619MODERN DISTORTIONS OF JOAN'S HISTORY
206WHAT IS TO BECOME OF THE CHILDREN?
620HISTORY ALWAYS OUT OF DATE
207THE COST OF DIVORCE
621THE REAL JOAN NOT MARVELLOUS ENOUGH FOR US
208CONCLUSIONS
622THE STAGE LIMITS OF HISTORICAL REPRESENTATION
209GETTING MARRIED (PLAY) (pt. 1)
623A VOID IN THE ELIZABETHAN DRAMA
210GETTING MARRIED (PLAY) (pt. 2)
624TRAGEDY, NOT MELODRAMA
211PREFACE
625THE INEVITABLE FLATTERIES OF TRAGEDY
212THE CENSORSHIP
626SOME WELL-MEANT PROPOSALS FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE PLAY
213A READABLE BLUEBOOK
627THE EPILOGUE
214HOW NOT TO DO IT
628TO THE CRITICS, LEST THEY SHOULD FEEL IGNORED
215THE STORY OF THE JOINT SELECT COMMITTEE
629SCENE I
216WHY THE MANAGERS LOVE THE CENSORSHIP
630SCENE II
217A TWO GUINEA INSURANCE POLICY
631SCENE III
218WHY THE GOVERNMENT INTERFERED
632SCENE IV
219THE PEERS ON THE JOINT SELECT COMMITTEE
633SCENE V
220THE COMMITTEE’S ATTITUDE TOWARD THE THEATRE
634SCENE VI
221A BAD BEGINNING
635EPILOGUE
222A COMIC INTERLUDE
636The Glimpse Of Reality: A Tragedietta (1926)
223AN ANTI-SHAVIAN PANIC
637Fascinating Foundling: Disgrace To The Author (1926)
224A RARE AND CURIOUS FIRST EDITION
638Preface
225THE TIMES TO THE RESCUE
639ACT I
226THE COUNCIL OF TEN
640AN INTERLUDE
227THE SENTENCE
641ACT II
228THE EXECUTION
642Mr Shaw Replies to His Critics
229PART I
643A Walk and a Talk with Mr Shaw
230THE WITNESS’S QUALIFICATIONS
644Bernard Shaw's Denial
231THE DEFINITION OF IMMORALITY
645Mr Shaw and Democracy
232WHAT TOLERATION MEANS
646The Apple-Cart Again
233THE CASE FOR TOLERATION
647Preface
234THE LIMITS TO TOLERATION
648MONEY AND HAPPINESS
235THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LAW AND CENSORSHIP
649THE VAMPIRE AND THE CALF
236WHY THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN?
650THE OLD SOLDIER AND THE PUBLIC HOUSE
237THE DIPLOMATIC OBJECTION TO THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN
651THE UNLOADING MILLIONAIRES
238THE OBJECTION OF COURT ETIQUET
652DELUSIONS OF POVERTY
239WHY NOT AN ENLIGHTENED CENSORSHIP?
653TRYING IT FOR AN HOUR
240THE WEAKNESS OF THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN’S DEPARTMENT
654CONSOLATIONS OF THE LANDED GENTRY
241AN ENLIGHTENED CENSORSHIP STILL WORSE THAN THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN’S
655MISERIES OF THE VAGRANT ROOTLESS RICH
242THE PRACTICAL IMPOSSIBILITIES OF CENSORSHIP
656THE REDEMPTION FROM PROPERTY
243THE ARBITRATION PROPOSAL
657FUNDAMENTAL NATURAL CONDITIONS OF HUMAN SOCIETY
244THE LICENSING OF THEATRES
658THE CATHOLIC SOLUTION
245THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN LICENSING AND CENSORSHIP
659NEED FOR A COMMON FAITH
246PROSTITUTION AND DRINK IN THEATRES
660RUSSIA REDISCOVERS THE CHURCH SYSTEM
247WHY THE MANAGERS DREAD LOCAL CONTROL
661WHY THE CHRISTIAN SYSTEM FAILED
248DESIRABLE LIMITATIONS OF LOCAL CONTROL
662GOVERNMENT BY EVERYBODY
249SUMMARY
663FAILURE ALL ROUND
250PREFACE RESUMED
664OBSOLETE VOWS
251MR. GEORGE ALEXANDER’S PROTEST
665SUPERNATURAL PRETENSIONS
252ELIZA AND HER BATH
666ECLECTIC DEMOCRACY
253A KING’S PROCTOR
667ACT I
254COUNSEL’S OPINION
668ACT II
255WANTED: A NEW MAGNA CHARTA
669ACT III
256PROPOSED: A NEW STAR CHAMBER
670From the Malvern Festival Book, 1932
257POSSIBILITIES OF THE PROPOSAL
671Why "Too True to be Good" Failed: A Moral in Favour of a National Theatre
258STAR CHAMBER SENTIMENTALITY
672Village Wooing: A Comedietta for Two Voices (1933)
259ANYTHING FOR A QUIET LIFE
673FIRST CONVERSATION
260SHALL THE EXAMINER OF PLAYS STARVE?
674SECOND CONVERSATION
261LORD GORELL’S AWAKENING
675THIRD CONVERSATION
262JUDGES: THEIR PROFESSIONAL LIMITATIONS
676Preface
263CONCLUSION
677EXTERMINATION
264THE SHEWING-UP OF BLANCO POSNET (PLAY)
678KILLING AS A POLITICAL FUNCTION
265Press Cuttings (1909)
679THE SACREDNESS OF HUMAN LIFE
266PREFACE: PARENTS AND CHILDREN
680PRESENT EXTERMINATIONS
267Trailing Clouds of Glory
681PREVIOUS ATTEMPTS MISS THE POINT
268The Child is Father to the Man
682KING CHARLES'S HEAD
269What is a Child?
683RIGHT TO EXTERMINATE CONFERRED BY PRIVATE PROPERTY
270The Sin of Nadab and Abihu
684DISGUISES UNDER WHICH PRIVATE EXTERMINATION OPERATES
271The Manufacture of Monsters
685PRIVATE POWERS OF LIFE AND DEATH
272Small and Large Families
686CRUELTY'S EXCUSES
273Children as Nuisances
687LEADING CASE OF JESUS CHRIST
274Child Fanciers
688"CROSSTIANITY"
275Childhood as a State of Sin
689CHRISTIANITY AND THE SIXTH COMMANDMENT
276School
690THE RUSSIAN EXPERIMENT
277My Scholastic Acquirements
691INADEQUACY OF PENAL CODES
278Schoolmasters of Genius
692LIMITED LIABILITY IN MORALS
279What We Do Not Teach, and Why
693NATURAL LIMIT TO EXTERMINATION
280Taboo in Schools
694INCOMPATIBILITY OF PEASANTRY WITH MODERN CIVILIZATION
281Alleged Novelties in Modern Schools
695A PEASANT VICTORY IS A VICTORY FOR PRIVATE PROPERTY
282What is to be Done?
696PREVENTIVE EXTERMINATION: ITS DIFFICULTIES
283Children’s Rights and Duties
697TEMPERAMENTAL DIFFICULTIES
284Should Children Earn their Living?
698IMPORTANCE OF LAZINESS FOR FALLOWING
285Children’s Happiness
699STANDARD RELIGION INDISPENSABLE
286The Horror of the Perpetual Holiday
700ECLECTIC RELIGIONS
287University Schoolboyishness
701IMPORTANCE OF FREE THOUGHT
288The New Laziness
702TOLERATION MOSTLY ILLUSORY
289The Infinite School Task
703LEADING CASES: SOCRATES AND JESUS
290The Rewards and Risks of Knowledge
704THE CASE OF GALILEO
291English Physical Hardihood and Spiritual Cowardice
705FIGMENT OF THE SELFREGARDING ACTION
292The Risks of Ignorance and Weakness
706INCOMPLETENESS OF THE GREAT TRIALS
293The Common Sense of Toleration
707A MODERN PASSION PLAY IMPOSSIBLE
294The Sin of Athanasius
708DIFFERENCE BETWEEN READER AND SPECTATOR
295The Experiment Experimenting
709THE SACREDNESS OF CRITICISM
296Why We Loathe Learning and Love Sport
710ACT I
297Antichrist
711ACT II
298Under the Whip
712Shaw Answers Some Questions
299Technical Instruction
713Preface on Days of Judgment
300Docility and Dependence
714PROLOGUE
301The Abuse of Docility
715SCENE I
302The Schoolboy and the Homeboy
716SCENE II
303The Comings of Age of Children
717SCENE III
304The Conflict of Wills
718ACT I
305The Demagogue’s Opportunity
719ACT II
306Our Quarrelsomeness
720The Simple Truth of the Matter
307We Must Reform Society before we can Reform Ourselves
721The Six of Calais (1934)
308The Pursuit of Manners
722Prefatory Note
309Not too much Wind on the Heath, Brother
723THE SIX OF CALAIS
310Wanted: a Child’s Magna Charta
724Author's Note
311The Pursuit of Learning
725Arthur and the Acetone (1936)
312Children and Game: a Proposal
726ACT I
313The Parents’ Intolerable Burden
727ACT II
314Mobilization
728ACT III
315Children’s Rights and Parents’ Wrongs
729The Millionairess (1936)
316How Little We Know About Our Parents
730PREFACE ON BOSSES
317Our Abandoned Mothers
731ACT I
318Family Affection
732ACT II
319The Fate of the Family
733ACT III
320Family Mourning
734ACT IV
321Art Teaching
735Cymbeline Refinished: A Variation on Shakespeare’s Ending (1937)
322The Impossibility of Secular Education
736Foreword
323Natural Selection as a Religion
737ACT V
324Moral Instruction Leagues
738Preface
325The Bible
739HOODWINKED HEROISM
326Artist Idolatry
740ENGLAND FRIGHTENED AND GREAT
327“The Machine”
741ENGLAND SECURE AND LAZY
328The Provocation to Anarchism
742HISTORY STOPS YESTERDAY: STATECRAFT WORKS BLINDFOLD
329Imagination
743WE SPLIT THE ATOM
330Government by Bullies
744AN AMORAL VICTORY
331MISALLIANCE (PLAY) (pt. 1)
745CIVILIZATION'S WILL TO LIVE ALWAYS DEFEATED BY DEMOCRACY
332MISALLIANCE (PLAY) (pt. 2)
746INCOMPETENT GOVERNMENTS ARE THE CRUELLEST
333PREFACE TO THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS
747HITLER
334How the Play came to be Written
748PSEUDO MESSIAH AND MADMAN
335Thomas Tyler
749DEMOCRACY MISUNDERSTOOD
336Frank Harris
750"GREAT MEN"
337Harris “durch Mitleid wissend”
751WE CAN AND MUST LIVE LONGER
338“Sidney’s Sister: Pembroke’s Mother”
752THE NEXT DISCOVERY
339Shakespear’s Social Standing
753ACT I
340This Side Idolatry
754ACT II
341Shakespear’s Pessimism
755ACT III
342Gaiety of Genius
756ACT IV
343Jupiter and Semele
757Author's Note
344The Idol of the Bardolaters
758New Shaw Play and Germany
345Shakespear’s alleged Sycophancy and Perversion
759For the Press
346Shakespear and Democracy
760Telescoping "Geneva"
347Shakespear and the British Public
761Further Meditations on Shaw's "Geneva" by Shaw
348THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS (PLAY)
762Preface
349PREFACE TO FANNY’S FIRST PLAY
763STAGE CHAPTERS OF HISTORY
350INDUCTION
764NEWTON'S RECTILINEAR UNIVERSE
351ACT I
765CHARLES'S GOLDEN DAYS
352ACT II
766THE FUTURE OF WOMEN IN POLITICS
353ACT III
767THE COUPLED VOTE
354EPILOGUE
768ACT I
355PREFACE ON THE PROSPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY
769ACT II
356WHY NOT GIVE CHRISTIANITY A TRIAL?
770Playlet on the British Party System (1944)
357WHY JESUS MORE THAN ANOTHER?
771Buoyant Billions: A Comedy of No Manners (1948)
358WAS JESUS A COWARD?
772Preface
359WAS JESUS A MARTYR?
773ACT I THE WORLD BETTERER
360THE GOSPELS WITHOUT PREJUDICE
774ACT II THE ADVENTURE
361THE GOSPELS NOW UNINTELLIGIBLE TO NOVICES
775ACT III THE DISCUSSION
362WORLDLINESS OF THE MAJORITY
776ACT IV THE END
363RELIGION OF THE MINORITY. SALVATIONISM
777The Author Explains
364THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ATONEMENT AND PUNISHMENT
778Shakes versus Shav (1949): Preface
365SALVATION AT FIRST A CLASS PRIVILEGE; AND THE REMEDY
779Preface, § i
366RETROSPECTIVE ATONEMENT, AND THE EXPECTATION OF THE REDEEMER
780THE NEW PSYCHOBIOLOGY
367COMPLETION OF THE SCHEME BY LUTHER AND CALVIN
781AM I A PATHOLOGICAL CASE?
368JOHN BARLEYCORN
782DIVINE PROVIDENCE
369LOOKING FOR THE END OF THE WORLD
783MENTAL CAPACITY DIFFERS AND DIVIDES
370THE HONOR OF DIVINE PARENTAGE
784SATANIC SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM OF EVIL
371MATTHEW
785MENDACITY COMPULSORY IN KINGCRAFT AND PRIESTCRAFT
372THE ANNUNCIATION: THE MASSACRE: THE FLIGHT
786G.B.S. MIRACLE FAKER
373JOHN THE BAPTIST
787PARENTAL DILEMMAS
374JESUS JOINS THE BAPTISTS
788Preface, § ii
375THE SAVAGE JOHN AND THE CIVILIZED JESUS
789THE ALL OR NOTHING COMPLEX
376JESUS NOT A PROSLETYST
790CATHOLICISM IMPRACTICABLE
377THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS
791THE TARES AND THE WHEAT
378THE MIRACLES
792THE THIRTYNINE ARTICLES
379MATTHEW IMPUTES DIGNITY TO JESUS
793A HUNDRED RELIGIONS AND ONLY ONE SAUCE
380THE GREAT CHANGE
794THE MARXIST CHURCH
381JERUSALEM AND THE MYSTICAL SACRIFICE
795SHOULD I BE SHOT IN RUSSIA?
382NOT THIS MAN BUT BARRABAS
796COMPATIBILITIES
383THE RESURRECTION
797BOHEMIAN ANARCHISM
384DATE OF MATTHEW’S NARRATIVE
798SHAM DEMOCRACY
385CLASS TYPE OF MATTHEW’S JESUS
799Preface, § iii
386MARK: THE WOMEN DISCIPLES AND THE ASCENSION
800THE POLITICAL TIME LAG
387LUKE
801ADULT SUFFRAGE IS MOBOCRACY
388LUKE THE LITERARY ARTIST
802THE MARXIST CLASS WAR
389THE CHARM OF LUKE’S NARRATIVE
803WHAT IS TO BE DONE?
390THE TOUCH OF PARISIAN ROMANCE
804POLITICAL MATHEMATICS
391WAITING FOR THE MESSIAH
805RENT AND VALUE THE ASS'S BRIDGES
392JOHN
806STATISTICS VITAL
393A NEW STORY AND A NEW CHARACTER
807THE ESTHETIC TEST
394JOHN THE IMMORTAL EYEWITNESS
808SUBCONSCIOUS CAPACITIES
395THE PECULIAR THEOLOGY OF JESUS
809EXAMINATIONS AND SCHOOLMASTERS
396JOHN AGREED AS TO THE TRIAL AND CRUCIFIXION
810Preface, § iv
397CREDIBILITY OF THE GOSPELS
811THE WRONG SORT OF MEMORY
398FASHIONS OF BELIEF
812SOME RESULTS
399CREDIBILITY AND TRUTH
813CAPITAL ACCUMULATION
400CHRISTIAN ICONOLATRY AND THE PERILS OF THE ICONOCLAST
814ENGLAND'S SHAMEFACED LEADERSHIP
401THE ALTERNATIVE TO BARRABAS
815THE THREATENING FUTURE: HOMILIES NO USE
402THE REDUCTION TO MODERN PRACTICE OF CHRISTIANITY
816First Fable
403MODERN COMMUNISM
817Second Fable
404REDISTRIBUTION
818Third Fable
405SHALL HE WHO MAKES, OWN
819Fourth Fable
406LABOR TIME
820Fifth Fable
407THE DREAM OF DISTRIBUTION ACCORDING TO MERIT
821Sixth and Last Fable
408VITAL DISTRIBUTION
822Why She Would Not (1950)
409EQUAL DISTRIBUTION
823SCENE I
410THE CAPTAIN AND THE CABIN BOY
824SCENE II
411THE POLITICAL AND BIOLOGICAL OBJECTIONS TO INEQUALITY
825SCENE III
412JESUS AS ECONOMIST
826SCENE IV
413JESUS AS BIOLOGIST
827SCENE V
414MONEY THE MIDWIFE OF SCIENTIFIC COMMUNISM
