Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Bernard Shaw: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text
The Philanderer
Appendix A: Shaw’s Original Final Act to The Philanderer (1893)
Appendix B: Shaw’s Prefaces to Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant and The Philanderer
- From the Preface to Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant (1898)
- Prefatory Note to The Philanderer (1931)
Appendix C: Shaw and Ibsen
- From Clement Scott’s Review of Ghosts, Daily Telegraph (14 March 1891)
- From the Daily Telegraph Editorial on Ghosts (14 March 1891)
- From Bernard Shaw, The Quintessence of Ibsenism (1928)
Appendix D: Marriage and Divorce
- From the “Solemnization of Matrimony,” Book of Common Prayer (1901)
- From An Act to Amend the Law Relating to Divorce and Matrimonial Causes in England (1857)
- From “Indissolubility of Marriage,” Lipincott’s (July 1890)
- From Shaw’s Preface to Getting Married (1911)
Appendix E: Medicine and Vivisection
- From Shaw’s Preface to The Doctor’s Dilemma (1911)
- From Shaw’s Speech on Vivisection, Queen’s Hall, London (22 May 1900)
Appendix F: Contemporary Reviews
- From The Illustrated London News (9 February 1907)
- The Athenaeum (9 February 1907)
- From Max Beerbohm, “The Philanderer,” The Saturday Review (9 February 1907)
- From The Era (9 February 1907)
- The Sketch (13 February 1907)
- From the New York Herald (29 December 1913)
- From the New York Tribune (29 December 1913)
- From The Theatre, New York (February 1914)
- From St John Ervine, “The Philanderer,” The Observer (4 February 1923)
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