@booklet {1029, title = {"The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles"}, howpublished = {The Simpleton, The Six, and the Millionaires: Three Plays}, year = {1936}, note = {

Rpt. with the subtitle A Vision of Judgment. In The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw. Collected Plays with their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1973), 6: 741-846, with the \“Preface\” on 745-64.\ See his \“Preface on Days of Judgment.\” The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw. Collected Plays with their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1973), 6: 745-64. Rpt. with the subtitle \“(The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles).\” In his The Complete Prefaces. Volume 3: 1930-1950. Ed. Dan H. Laurence and Daniel J. Leary (London: Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1997), 229-41. See also his \“The Simple Truth of the Matter (A reply to the assertion of Joseph Wood Krutch in The Nation New York [140 (March 6, 1935): 286-87] that Shaw\’s recent plays were merely vaudeville, quite devoid of meaning.\” Malvern Festival Book, 1935). Rpt. in The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw. Collected Plays with their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1973), 6: 841-46.\ 

}, month = {1936}, pages = {19-81}, publisher = {Constable}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Satire describing a eugenic experiment on an isolated island using group marriage. Ends with a satire on the Day of Judgment, which Shaw presents as the point of the play.

}, keywords = {Irish author, Male author}, author = {[George] Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)} }