"Farfetched Fables"
Title | "Farfetched Fables" |
Year for Search | 1951 |
Authors | Shaw, [George] Bernard(1856-1950) |
Tertiary Authors | Shaw, Bernard |
Secondary Title | Buoyant Billions, Farfetched Fables, & Shakes Versus Shav |
Pagination | 61-131 |
Date Published | 1951 |
Publisher | Constable |
Place Published | London |
Keywords | Irish author, Male author |
Annotation | 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. |
Additional Publishers | 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. |
Info Notes | Written in 1948. First performed in London September 6, 1950. |
Translation Note | The first fable was originally published in German translation as “Phantastiche Fabel.” Neue Schweizer Rundschau (March 1950). |
Holding Institutions | VUW |
Author Note | Irish author (1856-1950) |
Full Text | 1951 Shaw, [George] Bernard (1856-1950). “Farfetched Fables.” In his Buoyant Billions, Farfetched Fables, & Shakes Versus Shav (London: Constable, 1951), 61-131. 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). Written in 1948. First performed in London September 6, 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. VUW 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. |