@booklet {1395, title = {"Farfetched Fables"}, howpublished = {Buoyant Billions, Farfetched Fables, \& Shakes Versus Shav}, year = {1951}, note = {

Rpt. in The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw. Collected Plays with their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1974), 7: 377-466. The first fable was originally published in German translation as \“Phantastiche Fabel.\” Neue Schweizer Rundschau (March 1950). \ See \“Preface.\” The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw. Collected Plays with their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1974), 7: 381-428. Rpt. as \“Farfetched Fables (1951).\” In his The Complete Prefaces. Volume 3: 1930-1950. Ed. Dan H. Laurence and Daniel J. Leary (London: Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1997), 494-531.\ 

}, month = {1951}, pages = {61-131}, publisher = {Constable}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Six fables ranging in time from the contemporary to the far future. A number are satires on utopian aspirations, with satires on diet, genetics, and education, among other topics.

}, keywords = {Irish author, Male author}, author = {[George] Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)} } @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)} } @booklet {314, title = {Press Cuttings: A Topical Sketch compiled from the editorial and correspondence columns of the Daily Papers, as performed by the Civic and Dramatic Guild at the Royal Court Theatre, London, on the 9th July 1909}, year = {1909}, note = {

Rpt. in Translations and Tomfooleries. Vol. 18 of The Works of Bernard Shaw (London: Constable \& Co., 1930), 129-68; and The Bodley Head Collected Plays With Their Prefaces. Volume III (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodlery Head, 1971), 837-95, which includes \“Banned Play. Censor\’s Objection to \‘Press Cuttings\’\” (886-95). Originally published in German translation as \“Zeitungsausschnitte.\” M{\"a}rz (Berlin) (July 1909).\ 

}, month = {1909}, publisher = {Archibald Constable \& Co.}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Satire on women\&$\#$39;s suffrage, the military, and politics and politicians set three years in the future.

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