List of illustrations Notes on contributors Preface Acknowledgments Chronology Part I:The social and cultural context 1 Shaw's life:a feminist in spite of himself SALLY PETERS 2 Imprinting the stage:Shaw and the publishing trade,1883-1903 KATHERINE E.KELLY 3 New theatres for old CHARLES A.BERST 4 New women,new plays,and Shaw in the 1890s KERRY POWELL Part 2:Shaw the dramatist 5 Shaw's early plays FREDERICK J.MARKER 6 Shavian comedy and the shadow of Wilde DAVID J.GORDON 7 Structure and philosophy in Man and Superman and Major Barbara FREDRIC BERG 8 “Nothing but talk,talk-Shaw talk”:Discussion Plays and the making of modern drama CHRISTOPHER INNES 9 The roads to Heartbreak House RONALD BRYDEN 10 Reinventing the history play:Caesar and Cleopatra,Saint Joan,“In Good King Charles's Golden Days” 11 Shaw's interstices of empire:decolonizing at home and abroad TRACY C.DAVIS 12 The later Shaw T.F.EVANS Part 3:Theatre work and influence 13 Shaw and the Court Theatre JAN McDONALD 14 “Please remember,this is Italian opera”:Shaw's plays as music-drama J.L.WISENTHAL 15 Shaw and the popular context ROBERT G.EVERDING Index