Back to Methuselah; A Metabiological Pentateuch

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Title	Back to Methuselah; A Metabiological Pentateuch
Year for Search	1921
Authors	Shaw, George Bernard(1856-1950)
Date Published	1921
Publisher	Brentano's
Place Published	New York
Keywords	Irish author, Male author
Annotation	Satire. Traces the history of humankind from prior to Adam to the distant future. Some people become long-lived, initially living for 300 years. In 3000 this divides the world into the long-lived, who live in the British Isles, and the short-lived, who inhabit the rest of the world. In 31920, there are no more short-lived, and the long-lived live hundreds of years.
Additional Publishers	U.K. ed. London: Constable, 1921. The U.S. ed. is marginally the first ed. Rev. and rpt. for the Standard Edition. London: Constable, 1931. Rpt. further rev. New York: Oxford University Press, 1947, which includes “Postscript After Twenty Years” (257-71); rpt. in The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays With Their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1972), 5: 685-703; and The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays With Their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1972), 5: 251-713, which also includes “A Glimpse of the Domesticity of Franklyn Barnabas (632-84), which was first published in the Collected Edition: Volume 6 Short Stories, Scraps and Shavings (London: Constable, 1932), 141-85; “Birmingham as a Home of Dramatic Art (Curtain speech after first performance of Birmingham Repertory Theatre production on 12 October, Birmingham Gazette 13 October 1923)” (703-04); “The Serial Play (Interview drafted by Shaw, The Observer, London, 21 October 1923)” (704-07); “Bernard Shaw Piqued (Written statement, presented as interview, Daily Express, London, 22 February 1924” (707-09); and “Letters to the Editor of The Times” (709-13). See Shaw’s “Preface: The Infidel Half Century” (London: Constable, 1931), vii-lxxxvi; and The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays With Their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1972), 5: 255-339. Rpt. rev. in his The Complete Prefaces. Volume 2: 1914-1929. Ed. Dan H. Laurence and Daniel J. Leary (London: Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1995), 373-430.
Info Notes	First performed in New York on February 27, 1922; first performed in England in Birmingham on October 9, 1923.
Holding Institutions	DLC
Author Note	Irish author (1856-1950)
Full Text	1921 Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950). Back to Methuselah; A Metabiological Pentateuch. New York: Brentano’s. U.K. ed. London: Constable, 1921. The U.S. ed. is marginally the first ed. Rev. and rpt. for the Standard Edition. London: Constable, 1931. Rpt. further rev. New York: Oxford University Press, 1947, which includes “Postscript After Twenty Years” (257-71); rpt. in The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays With Their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1972), 5: 685-703; and The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays With Their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1972), 5: 251-713, which also includes “A Glimpse of the Domesticity of Franklyn Barnabas (632-84), which was first published in the Collected Edition: Volume 6 Short Stories, Scraps and Shavings (London: Constable, 1932), 141-85; “Birmingham as a Home of Dramatic Art (Curtain speech after first performance of Birmingham Repertory Theatre production on 12 October, Birmingham Gazette 13 October 1923)” (703-04); “The Serial Play (Interview drafted by Shaw, The Observer, London, 21 October 1923)” (704-07); “Bernard Shaw Piqued (Written statement, presented as interview, Daily Express, London, 22 February 1924” (707-09); and “Letters to the Editor of The Times” (709-13). First performed in New York on February 27, 1922; first performed in England in Birmingham on October 9, 1923. See Shaw’s “Preface: The Infidel Half Century” (London: Constable, 1931), vii-lxxxvi; and The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays With Their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1972), 5: 255-339. Rpt. rev. in his The Complete Prefaces. Volume 2: 1914-1929. Ed. Dan H. Laurence and Daniel J. Leary (London: Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1995), 373-430. DLC Satire. Traces the history of humankind from prior to Adam to the distant future. Some people become long-lived, initially living for 300 years. In 3000 this divides the world into the long-lived, who live in the British Isles, and the short-lived, who inhabit the rest of the world. In 31920, there are no more short-lived, and the long-lived live hundreds of years.