6III
399Family Mourning
7CHAPTER I
400Art Teaching
8CHAPTER II
401The Impossibility of Secular Education
9CHAPTER III
402Natural Selection as a Religion
10CHAPTER IV
403Moral Instruction Leagues
11CHAPTER V
404The Bible
12CHAPTER VI
405Artist Idolatry
13CHAPTER VII
406“The Machine”
14CHAPTER VIII
407The Provocation to Anarchism
15CHAPTER IX
408Imagination
16CHAPTER X
409Government by Bullies
17CHAPTER XI
410MISALLIANCE (PLAY) (pt. 1)
18CHAPTER XII
411MISALLIANCE (PLAY) (pt. 2)
19CHAPTER XIII
412PREFACE TO THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS
20CHAPTER XIV
413How the Play came to be Written
21CHAPTER XV
414Thomas Tyler
22CHAPTER XVI
415Frank Harris
23CHAPTER I
416Harris “durch Mitleid wissend”
24CHAPTER II
417“Sidney’s Sister: Pembroke’s Mother”
25CHAPTER III
418Shakespear’s Social Standing
26CHAPTER IV
419This Side Idolatry
27CHAPTER V
420Shakespear’s Pessimism
28CHAPTER VI
421Gaiety of Genius
29CHAPTER VII
422Jupiter and Semele
30CHAPTER VIII
423The Idol of the Bardolaters
31CHAPTER IX
424Shakespear’s alleged Sycophancy and Perversion
32CHAPTER X
425Shakespear and Democracy
33CHAPTER XI
426Shakespear and the British Public
34CHAPTER XII
427THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS (PLAY)
35CHAPTER XIII
428PREFACE TO FANNY’S FIRST PLAY
36CHAPTER XIV
429INDUCTION
37CHAPTER XV
430ACT I
38CHAPTER XVI
431ACT II
39CHAPTER XVII
432ACT III
40CHAPTER XVIII
433EPILOGUE
41APPENDIX LETTER TO THE AUTHOR FROM MR. SIDNEY TREFUSIS.
434PREFACE ON THE PROSPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY
42The Author to the Reader
435WHY NOT GIVE CHRISTIANITY A TRIAL?
43BOOK I
436WHY JESUS MORE THAN ANOTHER?
44CHAPTER I
437WAS JESUS A COWARD?
45CHAPTER II
438WAS JESUS A MARTYR?
46CHAPTER III
439THE GOSPELS WITHOUT PREJUDICE
47CHAPTER IV
440THE GOSPELS NOW UNINTELLIGIBLE TO NOVICES
48CHAPTER V
441WORLDLINESS OF THE MAJORITY
49CHAPTER VI
442RELIGION OF THE MINORITY. SALVATIONISM
50CHAPTER VII
443THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ATONEMENT AND PUNISHMENT
51CHAPTER VIII
444SALVATION AT FIRST A CLASS PRIVILEGE; AND THE REMEDY
52CHAPTER IX
445RETROSPECTIVE ATONEMENT, AND THE EXPECTATION OF THE REDEEMER
53CHAPTER X
446COMPLETION OF THE SCHEME BY LUTHER AND CALVIN
54CHAPTER XI
447JOHN BARLEYCORN
55CHAPTER XII
448LOOKING FOR THE END OF THE WORLD
56CHAPTER XIII
449THE HONOR OF DIVINE PARENTAGE
57CHAPTER XIV
450MATTHEW
58BOOK II
451THE ANNUNCIATION: THE MASSACRE: THE FLIGHT
59CHAPTER I
452JOHN THE BAPTIST
60CHAPTER II
453JESUS JOINS THE BAPTISTS
61CHAPTER III
454THE SAVAGE JOHN AND THE CIVILIZED JESUS
62CHAPTER IV
455JESUS NOT A PROSLETYST
63PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION OF 1905
456THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS
64BOOK I
457THE MIRACLES
65CHAPTER I
458MATTHEW IMPUTES DIGNITY TO JESUS
66CHAPTER II
459THE GREAT CHANGE
67CHAPTER III
460JERUSALEM AND THE MYSTICAL SACRIFICE
68CHAPTER IV
461NOT THIS MAN BUT BARRABAS
69CHAPTER V
462THE RESURRECTION
70CHAPTER VI
463DATE OF MATTHEW’S NARRATIVE
71BOOK II
464CLASS TYPE OF MATTHEW’S JESUS
72CHAPTER VII
465MARK: THE WOMEN DISCIPLES AND THE ASCENSION
73CHAPTER VIII
466LUKE
74CHAPTER IX
467LUKE THE LITERARY ARTIST
75CHAPTER X
468THE CHARM OF LUKE’S NARRATIVE
76CHAPTER XI
469THE TOUCH OF PARISIAN ROMANCE
77BOOK III
470WAITING FOR THE MESSIAH
78CHAPTER XII
471JOHN
79CHAPTER XIII
472A NEW STORY AND A NEW CHARACTER
80CHAPTER XIV
473JOHN THE IMMORTAL EYEWITNESS
81CHAPTER XV
474THE PECULIAR THEOLOGY OF JESUS
82CHAPTER XVI
475JOHN AGREED AS TO THE TRIAL AND CRUCIFIXION
83CHAPTER XVII
476CREDIBILITY OF THE GOSPELS
84BOOK IV
477FASHIONS OF BELIEF
85CHAPTER XVIII
478CREDIBILITY AND TRUTH
86CHAPTER XIX
479CHRISTIAN ICONOLATRY AND THE PERILS OF THE ICONOCLAST
87CHAPTER XX
480THE ALTERNATIVE TO BARRABAS
88CHAPTER XXI
481THE REDUCTION TO MODERN PRACTICE OF CHRISTIANITY
89Widowers’ Houses (1892)
482MODERN COMMUNISM
90ACT I
483REDISTRIBUTION
91ACT II
484SHALL HE WHO MAKES, OWN
92ACT III
485LABOR TIME
93The Philanderer (1898)
486THE DREAM OF DISTRIBUTION ACCORDING TO MERIT
94ACT I
487VITAL DISTRIBUTION
95ACT II
488EQUAL DISTRIBUTION
96ACT III
489THE CAPTAIN AND THE CABIN BOY
97ACT IV
490THE POLITICAL AND BIOLOGICAL OBJECTIONS TO INEQUALITY
98Mrs. Warren’s Profession (1898)
491JESUS AS ECONOMIST
99THE AUTHOR’S APOLOGY
492JESUS AS BIOLOGIST
100ACT I
493MONEY THE MIDWIFE OF SCIENTIFIC COMMUNISM
101ACT II
494JUDGE NOT
102ACT III
495LIMITS TO FREE WILL
103ACT IV
496JESUS ON MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY
104The Man Of Destiny (1897)
497WHY JESUS DID NOT MARRY
105Arms And The Man: An Anti-Romantic Comedy in Three Acts (1894)
498INCONSISTENCY OF THE SEX INSTINCT
106INTRODUCTION
499FOR BETTER OR WORSE
107ACT I
500THE CASE FOR MARRIAGE
108ACT II
501CELIBACY NO REMEDY
109ACT III
502AFTER THE CRUCIFIXION
110Candida (1898)
503THE VINDICTIVE MIRACLES AND THE STONING OF STEPHEN
111ACT I
504PAUL
112ACT II
505THE CONFUSION OF CHRISTENDOM.
113ACT III
506THE SECRET OF PAUL’S SUCCESS
114You Never Can Tell (1897)
507PAUL’S QUALITIES
115ACT I
508THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES.
116ACT II
509THE CONTROVERSIES ON BAPTISM AND TRANSUBSTANTIATION.
117ACT III
510THE ALTERNATIVE CHRISTS.
118ACT IV
511CREDULITY NO CRITERION.
119The Devil’s Disciple (1897)
512BELIEF IN PERSONAL IMMORTALITY NO CRITERION.
120ACT I
513THE SECULAR VIEW NATURAL, NOT RATIONAL, THEREFORE INEVITABLE.
121ACT II
514“THE HIGHER CRITICISM.”
122ACT III
515THE PERILS OF SALVATIONISM.
123NOTES TO THE DEVIL’S DISCIPLE
516THE IMPORTANCE OF HELL IN THE SALVATION SCHEME.
124BURGOYNE
517THE RIGHT TO REFUSE ATONEMENT.
125BRUDENELL
518THE TEACHING OF CHRISTIANITY.
126Captain Brassbound’s Conversion (1900)
519CHRISTIANITY AND THE EMPIRE.
127ACT I
520PROLOGUE
128ACT II
521ACT I
129ACT III
522ACT II
130NOTES TO CAPTAIN BRASSBOUND’S CONVERSION
523Afterword
131SOURCES OF THE PLAY
524PREFACE TO OVERRULED
132ENGLISH AND AMERICAN DIALECTS
525THE ALLEVIATIONS OF MONOGAMY
133PROLOGUE
526INACCESSIBILITY OF THE FACTS
134AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE PROLOGUE
527THE CONVENTION OF JEALOUSY
135ACT I
528THE MISSING DATA OF A SCIENTIFIC NATURAL HISTORY OF MARRIAGE
136ACT II
529ARTIFICIAL RETRIBUTION
137ACT III
530THE FAVORITE SUBJECT OF FARCICAL COMEDY
138ACT IV
531THE PSEUDO SEX PLAY
139ACT V
532ART AND MORALITY
140NOTES TO CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA
533THE LIMITS OF STAGE PRESENTATION
141CLEOPATRA’S CURE FOR BALDNESS
534PRUDERIES OF THE FRENCH STAGE
142APPARENT ANACHRONISMS
535OUR DISILLUSIVE SCENERY
143CLEOPATRA
536HOLDING THE MIRROR UP TO NATURE
144BRITANNUS
537FARCICAL COMEDY SHIRKING ITS SUBJECT
145JULIUS CAESAR
538OVERRULED (PLAY)
146The Gadfly Or The Son of the Cardinal (1898)
539PREFACE TO PYGMALION: A Professor of Phonetics
147ACT I.
540ACT I
148ACT II.
541ACT II
149ACT III.
542ACT III
150ACT IV.
543ACT IV
151SCENE I
544ACT V
152SCENE II
545APPENDIX
153PREFACE
546THE AUTHOR’S APOLOGY FOR GREAT CATHERINE
154ACT I
547THE FIRST SCENE
155ACT II
548THE SECOND SCENE
156Scene I
549THE THIRD SCENE
157Scene II
550THE FOURTH SCENE
158ACT IV
551The Music Cure (1913)
159NOTE ON MODERN PRIZEFIGHTING
552O’Flaherty, V. C. (1915)
160EPISTLE DEDICATORY TO ARTHUR BINGHAM WALKLEY
553A RECRUITING PAMPHLET
161ACT I
554O’FLAHERTY V.C. (PLAY)
162ACT II
555Macbeth Skit (unfinished): ACT I. SCENE V.
163ACT III (pt. 1)
556Glastonbury Skit (unfinished) (1916)
164ACT III (pt. 2)
557The Inca Of Perusalem: An Almost Historical Comedietta (1916)
165ACT IV
558PROLOGUE
166John Bull’s Other Island (1904)
559INCA OF PERUSALEM (PLAY)
167ACT I
560Augustus Does His Bit (1916)
168ACT II
561PREFACE
169ACT III
562AUGUSTUS DOES HIS BIT (PLAY)
170ACT IV
563Skit For The Tiptaft Revue (1917)
171How He Lied To Her Husband (1904)
564Annajanska, The Bolshevik Empress (1917): ANNAJANSKA, THE BOLSHEVIK EMPRESS (PLAY)
172PREFACE
565HEARTBREAK HOUSE AND HORSEBACK HALL
173HOW HE LIED TO HER HUSBAND (PLAY)
566Where Heartbreak House Stands
174PREFACE TO MAJOR BARBARA: FIRST AID TO CRITICS
567The Inhabitants
175THE GOSPEL OF ST. ANDREW UNDERSHAFT
568Horseback Hall
176THE SALVATION ARMY
569Revolution on the Shelf
177BARBARA’S RETURN TO THE COLORS.
570The Cherry Orchard
178WEAKNESSES OF THE SALVATION ARMY.
571Nature’s Long Credits
179CHRISTIANITY AND ANARCHISM
572The Wicked Half Century
180SANE CONCLUSIONS
573Hypochondria
181ACT I
574Those who do not know how to live must make a Merit of Dying
182ACT II
575War Delirium
183ACT III
576Madness in Court
184Passion, Poison, And Petrifaction (1905): OR, THE FATAL GAZOGENE
577The Long Arm of War
185PREFACE
578The Rabid Watchdogs of Liberty
186DOUBTFUL CHARACTER BORNE BY THE MEDICAL PROFESSION
579The Sufferings of the Sane
187DOCTOR’S CONSCIENCES
580Evil in the Throne of Good
188THE PECULIAR PEOPLE
581Straining at the Gnat and swallowing the Camel
189RECOIL OF THE DOGMA OF MEDICAL INFALLIBILITY ON THE DOCTOR
582Little Minds and Big Battles
190WHY DOCTORS DO NOT DIFFER
583The Dumb Capables and the Noisy Incapables
191THE CRAZE FOR OPERATIONS
584The Practical Business Men
192CREDULITY AND CHLOROFORM
585How the Fools shouted the Wise Men down
193MEDICAL POVERTY
586The Mad Election
194THE SUCCESSFUL DOCTOR
587The Yahoo and the Angry Ape
195THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SELFRESPECT IN SURGEONS
588Plague on Both your Houses!
196ARE DOCTORS MEN OF SCIENCE?
589How the Theatre fared
197BACTERIOLOGY AS A SUPERSTITION
590The Soldier at the Theatre Front
198ECONOMIC DIFFICULTIES OF IMMUNIZATION
591Heartbreak House
199THE PERILS OF INOCULATION
592Commerce in the Theatre
200TRADE UNIONISM AND SCIENCE
593Unser Shakespeare
201DOCTORS AND VIVISECTION
594The Higher Drama put out of Action
202THE PRIMITIVE SAVAGE MOTIVE
595Church and Theatre
203THE HIGHER MOTIVE. THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE.
596The Next Phase
204THE FLAW IN THE ARGUMENT
597The Ephemeral Thrones and the Eternal Theatre
205LIMITATIONS OF THE RIGHT TO KNOWLEDGE
598How War muzzles the Dramatic Poet
206A FALSE ALTERNATIVE
599ACT I
207CRUELTY FOR ITS OWN SAKE
600ACT II
208OUR OWN CRUELTIES
601ACT III
209THE SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION OF CRUELTY
602PREFACE
210SUGGESTED LABORATORY TESTS OF THE VIVISECTOR’S EMOTIONS
603The Infidel Half Century
211ROUTINE
604THE DAWN OF DARWINISM
212THE OLD LINE BETWEEN MAN AND BEAST
605THE ADVENT OF THE NEO-DARWINIANS
213VIVISECTING THE HUMAN SUBJECT
606POLITICAL INADEQUACY OF THE HUMAN ANIMAL
214“THE LIE IS A EUROPEAN POWER”
607COWARDICE OF THE IRRELIGIOUS
215AN ARGUMENT WHICH WOULD DEFEND ANY CRIME
608IS THERE ANY HOPE IN EDUCATION?
216THOU ART THE MAN
609HOMEOPATHIC EDUCATION
217WHAT THE PUBLIC WANTS AND WILL NOT GET
610THE DIABOLICAL EFFICIENCY OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION
218THE VACCINATION CRAZE
611FLIMSINESS OF CIVILIZATION
219STATISTICAL ILLUSIONS
612CREATIVE EVOLUTION
220THE SURPRISES OF ATTENTION AND NEGLECT
613VOLUNTARY LONGEVITY
221STEALING CREDIT FROM CIVILIZATION
614THE EARLY EVOLUTIONISTS
222BIOMETRIKA
615THE ADVENT OF THE NEO-LAMARCKIANS
223PATIENT-MADE THERAPEUTICS
616HOW ACQUIREMENTS ARE INHERITED
224THE REFORMS ALSO COME FROM THE LAITY
617THE MIRACLE OF CONDENSED RECAPITULATION
225FASHIONS AND EPIDEMICS
618HEREDITY AN OLD STORY
226THE DOCTOR’S VIRTUES
619DISCOVERY ANTICIPATED BY DIVINATION
227THE DOCTOR’S HARDSHIPS
620CORRECTED DATES FOR THE DISCOVERY OF EVOLUTION
228THE PUBLIC DOCTOR
621DEFYING THE LIGHTNING: A FRUSTRATED EXPERIMENT
229MEDICAL ORGANIZATION
622IN QUEST OF THE FIRST CAUSE
230THE SOCIAL SOLUTION OF THE MEDICAL PROBLEM
623PALEY’S WATCH
231THE FUTURE OF PRIVATE PRACTICE
624THE IRRESISTIBLE CRY OF ORDER, ORDER!
232THE TECHNICAL PROBLEM
625THE MOMENT AND THE MAN
233THE LATEST THEORIES
626THE BRINK OF THE BOTTOMLESS PIT
234ACT I
627WHY DARWIN CONVERTED THE CROWD
235ACT II
628HOW WE RUSHED DOWN A STEEP PLACE
236ACT III
629DARWINISM NOT FINALLY REFUTABLE
237ACT IV
630THREE BLIND MICE
238ACT V
631THE GREATEST OF THESE IS SELFCONTROL
239The Interlude At The Playhouse (1907)
632A SAMPLE OF LAMARCKO-SHAVIAN INVECTIVE
240PREFACE TO GETTING MARRIED
633THE HUMANITARIANS AND THE PROBLEM OF EVIL
241THE REVOLT AGAINST MARRIAGE
634HOW ONE TOUCH OF DARWIN MAKES THE WHOLE WORLD KIN
242MARRIAGE NEVERTHELESS INEVITABLE
635WHY DARWIN PLEASED THE SOCIALISTS
243WHAT DOES THE WORD MARRIAGE MEAN
636DARWIN AND KARL MARX
244SURVIVALS OF SEX SLAVERY
637WHY DARWIN PLEASED THE PROFITEERS ALSO
245A NEW ATTACK ON MARRIAGE
638THE POETRY AND PURITY OF MATERIALISM
246A FORGOTTEN CONFERENCE OF MARRIED MEN
639THE VICEROYS OF THE KING OF KINGS
247HEARTH AND HOME
640POLITICAL OPPORTUNISM IN EXCELSIS
248TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING
641THE BETRAYAL OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION
249LARGE AND SMALL FAMILIES
642CIRCUMSTANTIAL SELECTION IN FINANCE
250THE GOSPEL OF LAODICEA
643THE HOMEOPATHIC REACTION AGAINST DARWINISM
251FOR BETTER FOR WORSE
644RELIGION AND ROMANCE
252WANTED: AN IMMORAL STATESMAN
645THE DANGER OF REACTION
253THE LIMITS OF DEMOCRACY
646A TOUCHSTONE FOR DOGMA
254THE SCIENCE AND ART OF POLITICS
647WHAT TO DO WITH THE LEGENDS
255WHY STATESMEN SHIRK THE MARRIAGE QUESTION
648A LESSON FROM SCIENCE TO THE CHURCHES
256THE QUESTION OF POPULATION
649THE RELIGIOUS ART OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
257THE RIGHT TO MOTHERHOOD
650THE ARTIST-PROPHETS
258MONOGAMY, POLYGYNY AND POLYANDRY
651EVOLUTION IN THE THEATRE
259THE MALE REVOLT AGAINST POLYGYNY
652MY OWN PART IN THE MATTER
260DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ORIENTAL AND OCCIDENTAL POLYGYNY
653PART I. In the Beginning
261THE OLD MAID’S RIGHT TO MOTHERHOOD
654ACT I
262IBSEN’S CHAIN STITCH
655ACT II
263REMOTENESS OF THE FACTS FROM THE IDEAL
656PART II. The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas
264DIFFICULTY OF OBTAINING EVIDENCE
657PART III. The Thing Happens
265MARRIAGE AS A MAGIC SPELL
658PART IV. Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman
266THE IMPERSONALITY OF SEX
659ACT I
267THE ECONOMIC SLAVERY OF WOMEN
660ACT II
268UNPOPULARITY OF IMPERSONAL VIEWS
661ACT III
269IMPERSONALITY IS NOT PROMISCUITY
662ACT IV
270DOMESTIC CHANGE OF AIR
663PART V. As Far as Thought Can Reach
271HOME MANNERS ARE BAD MANNERS
664The War Indemnities (unfinished) (1921)
272SPURIOUS “NATURAL” AFFECTION
665What do Men of Letters Say? - The New York Times Articles on War (1915)
273CARRYING THE WAR INTO THE ENEMY’S COUNTRY
666"Common Sense About the War" by G. B. Shaw
274SHELLEY AND QUEEN VICTORIA
667I.
275A PROBABLE EFFECT OF GIVING WOMEN THE VOTE
668II. RECRUITING.
276THE PERSONAL SENTIMENTAL BASIS OF MONOGAMY
669III. THE TERMS OF PEACE.
277DIVORCE
670"Shaw's Nonsense About Belgium" By Arnold Bennett: Written for THE NEW YORK TIMES.
278IMPORTANCE OF SENTIMENTAL GRIEVANCE
671"Bennett States the German Case" by G. B. Shaw: Letter to The Daily News of London.
279DIVORCE WITHOUT ASKING WHY
672Flaws in Shaw's Logic By Cunninghame Graham: Letter to The Daily News of London.
280ECONOMIC SLAVERY AGAIN THE ROOT DIFFICULTY
673Editorial Comment on Shaw By The New York World
281LABOR EXCHANGES AND THE WHITE SLAVERY
674Shaw Empty of Good Sense By Christabel Pankhurst
282CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE
675Comment by Readers of Shaw To the Editor of The New York Times
283DIVORCE A SACRAMENTAL DUTY
676Open Letter to President Wilson[1] by G. B. Shaw
284OTHELLO AND DESDEMONA
677A German Letter to G. Bernard Shaw By Herbert Eulenberg
285WHAT IS TO BECOME OF THE CHILDREN?
678On Socialism: A Speech (1885)
286THE COST OF DIVORCE
679PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION
287CONCLUSIONS
680PREFACE: 1913
288GETTING MARRIED (PLAY) (pt. 1)
681PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
289GETTING MARRIED (PLAY) (pt. 2)
682THE TWO PIONEERS
290PREFACE
683IDEALS AND IDEALISTS
291THE CENSORSHIP
684THE WOMANLY WOMAN
292A READABLE BLUEBOOK
685THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ANTI-IDEALIST: EXTRAVAGANZAS
293HOW NOT TO DO IT
686BRAND, 1866
294THE STORY OF THE JOINT SELECT COMMITTEE
687PEER GYNT, 1867
295WHY THE MANAGERS LOVE THE CENSORSHIP
688EMPEROR AND GALILEAN, 1873
296A TWO GUINEA INSURANCE POLICY
689THE OBJECTIVE ANTI-IDEALIST PLAYS
297WHY THE GOVERNMENT INTERFERED
690THE LEAGUE OF YOUTH, 1869
298THE PEERS ON THE JOINT SELECT COMMITTEE
691PILLARS OF SOCIETY, 1877
299THE COMMITTEE’S ATTITUDE TOWARD THE THEATRE
692A DOLL’S HOUSE, 1879
300A BAD BEGINNING
693GHOSTS, 1881
301A COMIC INTERLUDE
694DESCRIPTIONS OF THE PLAY
302AN ANTI-SHAVIAN PANIC
695DESCRIPTIONS OF IBSEN
303A RARE AND CURIOUS FIRST EDITION
696DESCRIPTIONS OF IBSEN’S ADMIRERS
304THE TIMES TO THE RESCUE
697AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE, 1882
305THE COUNCIL OF TEN
698THE WILD DUCK, 1884
306THE SENTENCE
699ROSMERSHOLM, 1886
307THE EXECUTION
700THE LADY FROM THE SEA, 1888
308PART I
701HEDDA GABLER, 1890
309THE WITNESS’S QUALIFICATIONS
702THE LAST FOUR PLAYS DOWN AMONG THE DEAD MEN
310THE DEFINITION OF IMMORALITY
703THE MASTER BUILDER, 1892
311WHAT TOLERATION MEANS
704LITTLE EYOLF, 1894
312THE CASE FOR TOLERATION
705JOHN GABRIEL BORKMAN, 1896
313THE LIMITS TO TOLERATION
706WHEN WE DEAD AWAKEN, 1900
314THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LAW AND CENSORSHIP
707THE LESSON OF THE PLAYS
315WHY THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN?
708WHAT IS THE NEW ELEMENT IN THE NORWEGIAN SCHOOL?
316THE DIPLOMATIC OBJECTION TO THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN
709THE TECHNICAL NOVELTY IN IBSEN’S PLAYS
317THE OBJECTION OF COURT ETIQUET
710NEEDED: AN IBSEN THEATRE
318WHY NOT AN ENLIGHTENED CENSORSHIP?
711The Impossibilities Of Anarchism (1895)
319THE WEAKNESS OF THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN’S DEPARTMENT
712Anarchists and Socialists
320AN ENLIGHTENED CENSORSHIP STILL WORSE THAN THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN’S
713Individualist Anarchism
321THE PRACTICAL IMPOSSIBILITIES OF CENSORSHIP
714Communist Anarchism
322THE ARBITRATION PROPOSAL
715Democracy
323THE LICENSING OF THEATRES
716The Anarchist Spirit
324THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN LICENSING AND CENSORSHIP
717PREFACE TO THE FIRST GERMAN EDITION
325PROSTITUTION AND DRINK IN THEATRES
718PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
326WHY THE MANAGERS DREAD LOCAL CONTROL
719PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
327DESIRABLE LIMITATIONS OF LOCAL CONTROL
720PRELIMINARY ENCOURAGEMENTS
328SUMMARY
721THE RING OF THE NIBLUNGS
329PREFACE RESUMED
722THE RHINE GOLD
330MR. GEORGE ALEXANDER’S PROTEST
723WAGNER AS REVOLUTIONIST
331ELIZA AND HER BATH
724THE VALKYRIES
332A KING’S PROCTOR
725SIEGFRIED
333COUNSEL’S OPINION
726BACK TO OPERA AGAIN
334WANTED: A NEW MAGNA CHARTA
727SIEGFRIED AS PROTESTANT
335PROPOSED: A NEW STAR CHAMBER
728PANACEA QUACKERY, OTHERWISE IDEALISM
336POSSIBILITIES OF THE PROPOSAL
729DRAMATIC ORIGIN OF WOTAN
337STAR CHAMBER SENTIMENTALITY
730THE LOVE PANACEA
338ANYTHING FOR A QUIET LIFE
731NOT LOVE, BUT LIFE
339SHALL THE EXAMINER OF PLAYS STARVE?
732ANARCHISM NO PANACEA
340LORD GORELL’S AWAKENING
733SIEGFRIED CONCLUDED
341JUDGES: THEIR PROFESSIONAL LIMITATIONS
734NIGHT FALLS ON THE GODS
342CONCLUSION
735PROLOGUE
343THE SHEWING-UP OF BLANCO POSNET (PLAY)
736A WAGNERIAN NEWSPAPER CONTROVERSY
344Press Cuttings (1909)
737FORGOTTEN ERE FINISHED
345PREFACE: PARENTS AND CHILDREN
738WHY HE CHANGED HIS MIND
346Trailing Clouds of Glory
739WAGNER’S OWN EXPLANATION
347The Child is Father to the Man
740THE PESSIMIST AS AMORIST
348What is a Child?
741THE MUSIC OF THE RING
349The Sin of Nadab and Abihu
742THE REPRESENTATIVE THEMES
350The Manufacture of Monsters
743THE CHARACTERIZATION
351Small and Large Families
744THE OLD AND THE NEW MUSIC
352Children as Nuisances
745THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
353Child Fanciers
746THE MUSIC OF THE FUTURE
354Childhood as a State of Sin
747BAYREUTH
355School
748BAYREUTH IN ENGLAND
356My Scholastic Acquirements
749WAGNERIAN SINGERS
357Schoolmasters of Genius
750Letter to Beatrice Webb (1898)
358What We Do Not Teach, and Why
751PREFACE TO THE REVOLUTIONIST’S HANDBOOK
359Taboo in Schools
752FOREWORD
360Alleged Novelties in Modern Schools
753AND YET
361What is to be Done?
754I. ON GOOD BREEDING
362Children’s Rights and Duties
755II. PROPERTY AND MARRIAGE
363Should Children Earn their Living?
756III. THE PERFECTIONIST EXPERIMENT AT ONEIDA CREEK
364Children’s Happiness
757IV. MAN’S OBJECTION TO HIS OWN IMPROVEMENT
365The Horror of the Perpetual Holiday
758V. THE POLITICAL NEED FOR THE SUPERMAN
366University Schoolboyishness
759VI. PRUDERY EXPLAINED
367The New Laziness
760VII. PROGRESS AN ILLUSION
368The Infinite School Task
761VIII. THE CONCEIT OF CIVILIZATION
369The Rewards and Risks of Knowledge
762IX. THE VERDICT OF HISTORY
370English Physical Hardihood and Spiritual Cowardice
763X. THE METHOD
371The Risks of Ignorance and Weakness
764Maxims For Revolutionists (1903)
372The Common Sense of Toleration
765The New Theology (1907)
373The Sin of Athanasius
766How to Write A Popular Play: An Essay (1909)
374The Experiment Experimenting
7671
375Why We Loathe Learning and Love Sport
7682: WHY THE CRITICS ARE ALWAYS WRONG
376Antichrist
7693: THE INTERPRETER OF LIFE
377Under the Whip
7704: HOW THE GREAT DRAMATISTS TORTURE THE PUBLIC
378Technical Instruction
771Memories of Oscar Wilde (1916)
379Docility and Dependence
772Introduction to the First Edition
380The Abuse of Docility
773The Problem of a Preface
381The Schoolboy and the Homeboy
774The Irishman
382The Comings of Age of Children
775The Puritan
383The Conflict of Wills
776The Progressive
384The Demagogue’s Opportunity
777The Critic
385Our Quarrelsomeness
778The Dramatist
386We Must Reform Society before we can Reform Ourselves
779The Philosopher
387The Pursuit of Manners
780The Quintessence of Shaw by James Huneker
388Not too much Wind on the Heath, Brother
781I
389Wanted: a Child’s Magna Charta
782II
390The Pursuit of Learning
783III
391Children and Game: a Proposal
784IV
392The Parents’ Intolerable Burden
785Old and New Masters: Bernard Shaw by Robert Lynd
393Mobilization
786George Bernard Shaw: A Poem by Oliver Herford