ABSTRACT

This set comprises 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes.
This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.

chapter |38 pages

Introduction

chapter |1 pages

Note on the Text

part |19 pages

Widowers' Houses

chapter 1|3 pages

From an unsigned notice, Daily Telegraph

10 December 1892, 11722, 3

chapter 2|2 pages

W. Moy Thomas, unsigned notice, Daily News

10 December 1892, 14568, 5

chapter 3|1 pages

J. T. Grein, from a letter to the Daily Telegraph

13 December 1892, 11724, 3

chapter |6 pages

From a notice by W.A., World

14 December 1892, 963, 14

chapter 5|1 pages

From a notice by H.W.M., Illustrated London News

17 December 1892, 2800, vol. CI, 770

chapter 6|4 pages

A. B. Walkley, from an initialled notice, Speaker

17 December 1892, vol. VI, 155, 736

chapter 7|1 pages

Oscar Wilde on Shaw's confidence

9 May 1893

part |9 pages

Arms and the Man

chapter 8|1 pages

From an unsigned notice, Star

23 April 1894, 1928, 1

chapter 9|4 pages

William Archer, initialled notice, World

25 April 1894, 1034, 22

chapter 10|3 pages

A. B. Walkley, from an initialled notice, Speaker

28 April 1894, vol. IX, 226, 471

part |5 pages

Candida

chapter 11|1 pages

From an unsigned notice, Aberdeen journal

31 July 1897, 4

chapter 12|3 pages

Oliver Elton, unsigned notice, Manchester Guardian

15 March 1898, 8

part |9 pages

Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant

chapter 13|1 pages

H. A. Jones, letter to Shaw

5 May 1898

chapter 14|5 pages

Review by Max Beerbohm, Saturday Review

14 May 1898, 2220, vol. 85, 651 and 21 May 1898, 2221, vol. 85, 679

chapter 15|2 pages

Joseph Knight, from an unsigned review, Athenaeum

28 May 1898, 3683, 703

part |6 pages

The Devil's Disciple

chapter 16|2 pages

Unsigned notice, The Times

27 September 1899, 35945, 8

part |3 pages

Captain Brassbound's Conversion

chapter 18|2 pages

William Archer, notice, World

26 December 1900, 7382, 25

part |6 pages

Three Plays for Puritans

part |23 pages

Man and Superman

chapter 21|3 pages

G. K. Chesterton, review, Daily News

22 August 1903, 8

chapter 22|4 pages

Max Beerbohm, review, Saturday Review

12 September 1903, vol. 96, 329

chapter 23|2 pages

F. G. Bettany in an unsigned review, Athenaeum

26 September 1903, 3961, 422

chapter 24|2 pages

E. A. Baughan, initialled notice, Daily News

24 May 1905, 18465, 4

chapter 25|6 pages

A. B. Walkley on Man and Superman

1905

chapter 26|4 pages

William Archer, notice, World

30 May 1905, 1613, 914

part |18 pages

John Bull's Other Island

chapter 28|3 pages

W. B. Yeats, letter to Shaw

5 October 1904

chapter 30|1 pages

E. A. Baughan, from a notice, Daily News

2 November 1904, 18291, 8

chapter 31|2 pages

William Archer, notice, World

8 November 1904, 1584, 770

chapter 32|4 pages

Max Beerbohm, notice, Saturday Review

12 November 1904, vol. 98, 2559, 608

chapter 33|2 pages

Reginald Farrer, from a notice, Speaker

19 November 1904, vol. XI, 184, 266

chapter 34|3 pages

Francis Prevost on Shaw's growing reputation, Edinburgh Review

April 1905, vol. CCI, 412, 498

part |3 pages

Mrs Warren's Profession

chapter 35|2 pages

Unsigned notice, New York Herald

31 October 1905, 3

part |23 pages

Major Barbara

chapter 36|1 pages

From an unsigned notice, Pall Mall Gazette

29 November 1905, vol. LXXXI, 12683, 9

chapter 37|3 pages

Unsigned notice, Morning Post

29 November 1905, 41656, 9

chapter 39|2 pages

J. T. Grein, from a notice, Sunday Times

3 December 1905, 4313, 4

chapter 40|3 pages

William Archer, from a notice, World

5 December 1905, 1640, 971

chapter 41|2 pages

Alex M. Thompson, from a notice, Clarion

8 December 1905, 731, 3

chapter 42|4 pages

Max Beerbohm, notice, Saturday Review

9 December 1905, vol. 100, 2615, 745

chapter 44|1 pages

Rupert Brooke on Shaw's plays

1906-7

part |10 pages

The Doctor's Dilemma

chapter 46|2 pages

Unsigned notice, Morning Post

22 November 1906, 41963, 4

chapter 47|5 pages

Desmond MacCarthy, notice, Speaker

24 November 1906, XV, 373, 226

part |2 pages

John Bull's Other Island and Major Barbara

chapter 49|1 pages

Joseph Knight, from an unsigned review, Athenaeum

27 July 1907, 4161, 107

part |10 pages

Caesar and Cleopatra

chapter 50|2 pages

Unsigned notice, Yorkshire Post

17 September 1907, 18794, 5

chapter 51|2 pages

Unsigned notice, The Times

26 November 1907, 38500, 5

chapter 52|2 pages

E. A. Baughan, from an initialled notice, Daily News

26 November 1907, 19250, 7

chapter 53|1 pages

From an unsigned notice, Morning Post

26 November 1907, 42279, 7

chapter 55|1 pages

H. G. Wells on Shaw's plays

1908

part |9 pages

Getting Married

chapter 56|3 pages

Shaw's revenge on the critics

1908

chapter 57|3 pages

H. Hamilton Fyfe, notice, World: Shaw's ‘dulness'

20 May 1908, 1768, 919

chapter 58|2 pages

Henry James disagrees with Shaw

1909

part |4 pages

The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet

part |9 pages

Misalliance

part |14 pages

Androcles and the Lion

chapter 65|5 pages

Desmond MacCarthy, New Statesman

6 September 1913, vol. 1, 22, 693.

chapter 66|7 pages

Dixon Scott on Shaw's handicaps

1913

part |12 pages

Pygmalion

chapter 67|2 pages

Unsigned notice, Westminster Gazette

14 April 1914, vol. XLIII, 6507, 3

chapter 69|3 pages

H. W. Massingham, in an initialled notice, Nation

18 April 1914, vol. XV, 3, 93

part |24 pages

Heartbreak House

chapter 71|3 pages

Unsigned review in Nation, entitled ‘The Philanderers'

27 September 1919, vol. XXV, 26, 770

chapter 72|4 pages

Unsigned review, Times Literary Supplement

2 October 1919, 924, 529

chapter 73|4 pages

John Middleton Murry, review, Athenaeum

17 October 1919, 4668, 1028

chapter 74|2 pages

From an unsigned notice, Daily Telegraph

19 October 1921, 20749, 7

chapter 75|2 pages

Naomi Royde-Smith, from an initialled notice, Westminster Gazette

19 October 1921, vol. LVIII, 8824, 6

chapter 76|3 pages

James Agate, Saturday Review

21 October 1921

chapter 77|3 pages

Sydney W. Carroll, notice, Sunday Times

23 October 1921, 5141, 4

chapter 78|2 pages

Desmond MacCarthy, from a notice, New Statesman

29 October 1921, vol. XVIII, 446, 103

part |16 pages

Back to Methuselah

chapter 79|1 pages

Lady Gregory on Shaw's new play

1919

chapter 80|4 pages

J. C. Squire, review in Observer

26 June 1921, 6787, 4

chapter 81|5 pages

Desmond MacCarthy, New Statesman

9 July 1921, vol. XVII, 430, 384

chapter 82|2 pages

R. Crompton Rhodes, from an unsigned notice, Birmingham Post

13 October 1923, 20388, 10

chapter 83|1 pages

James Agate, from a notice, Sunday Times

24 February 1924, 4

part |38 pages

Saint Joan

chapter 85|2 pages

Alexander Woolcott, notice, New York Herald

29 December 1923, 3

chapter 86|1 pages

From an unsigned notice, Stage

10 January 1924, 2234, 20

chapter 87|6 pages

Luigi Pirandello, notice, New York Times

13 January 1924, 7 (magazine section)

chapter 88|3 pages

A. B. Walkley, unsigned notice, The Times

27 March 1924, 43611, 12

chapter 89|3 pages

James Agate, notice, Sunday Times

30 March 1924, 5268, 6

chapter 90|2 pages

Hubert Griffith, notice, Observer

30 March 1924, 6931, 11

chapter 91|2 pages

T. S. Eliot, an unsigned article, from Criterion

October 1924, vol. III, 9, 4

chapter 92|2 pages

Robert de Flers, notice, Le Figaro

11 May 1925, 2

chapter 98|2 pages

Winston Churchill, from an article, Pall Mall

August 1929, 16

part |13 pages

The Apple Cart

chapter 99|3 pages

Ivor Brown, in an initialled notice, Manchester Guardian

20 August 1929, 25887, 12

chapter 100|4 pages

H. W. Nevinson, notice, New Leader

23 August 1929, vol. XVI, ns, 148, 9

chapter 101|1 pages

W. B. Yeats on the reception of The Apple Cart

21 August and 16 November 1929

chapter 102|2 pages

St John Ervine, notice, Observer

25 August 1929, 7213, 11

part |10 pages

Too True to Be Good

chapter 104|2 pages

Charles Morgan, unsigned notice, The Times

8 August 1932

chapter 106|1 pages

George Orwell's attack on Shaw

1933

chapter 107|2 pages

Osbert Burdett on Shaw's popularity

1933

part |10 pages

On the Rocks

chapter 109|1 pages

From an unsigned notice, Morning Post

27 November 1933, 12

chapter 110|3 pages

Kingsley Martin, signed notice, New Statesman and Nation

2 December 1933, vol. VI, 145, ns, 694

chapter 111|1 pages

From an unsigned notice, Irish Times

10 July 1934

chapter 113|3 pages

Bonamy Dobrée on Shaw's immortality

1934

part |11 pages

The Simpleton the Six and the Millionairess

chapter 114|4 pages

Unsigned review, Times Literary Supplement

28 March 1936, 1782, 267

chapter 115|6 pages

Edmund Wilson on Shaw as an artist

1938

part |3 pages

Geneva

chapter 116|1 pages

Alan Dent, notice, Spectator

5 August 1938, vol. 161, 5745, 232

chapter 117|1 pages

Brooks Atkinson, notice, New York Times

31 January 1940, 15

part |14 pages

In Good King Charles's Golden Days

chapter 118|2 pages

James Agate, notice, Sunday Times

13 August 1939, 6070, 17

chapter 120|1 pages

Harold Hobson on Shaw's wit

1940

chapter 121|1 pages

H. G. Wells, letter to Shaw

1941

chapter 123|2 pages

Val Gielgud on Shaw and the radio

1946

chapter 124|2 pages

Dean Inge on Shaw's contradictions

1946

part |9 pages

Buoyant Billions

chapter 125|2 pages

Jakob Welti in an unsigned notice in Zürcher Zeitung

22 October 1948, 5

chapter 126|2 pages

Unsigned notice, The Times

15 August 1949, 51460, 7

chapter 127|2 pages

H. N. Brailsford on Shaw and Shelley

1949

part |25 pages

Obituary Notices and Tributes

chapter 129|2 pages

Unsigned leading article, The Times

3 November 1950, 51839, 5

chapter 130|3 pages

Unsigned leading article, Manchester Guardian

3 November 1950, 32463, 5

chapter 131|3 pages

James Bridie on Shaw as playwright

1950

chapter 133|2 pages

Allan M. Laing, ‘G.B.S. in Heaven'

1950

chapter 135|5 pages

Eric Bentley on ‘Shaw Dead', Envoy

February 1951, vol. 4, 15, 8