Date written
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Title
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Year first performed (plays)
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Year of publication
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1878 |
The Legg Papers (abandoned draft of novel) |
|
unpublished
|
1878 |
"My Dear Dorothea..." |
|
1906
|
1878 |
Passion Play (fragment) |
|
1971
|
1879 |
Immaturity (novel) |
|
1930
|
1880 |
The Irrational Knot (novel) |
|
serial 1885–7; book 1905
|
1881 |
Love Among the Artists (novel) |
|
serial 1887–8; book 1900
|
1882 |
Cashel Byron's Profession (novel) |
|
serial 1885–6; book 1886; rev 1889, 1901
|
1883 |
An Unsocial Socialist (novel) |
|
serial 1884; book 1887
|
1884 |
"A Manifesto" (Fabian tract 2)‡ |
|
1884
|
1884 |
Un Petit Drame (playlet) |
|
1959
|
1884–92 |
Widowers' Houses (play) |
1893 |
1893; rev. 1898
|
1885 |
"The Miraculous Revenge" (short story) |
|
1906[n 1]
|
1885 |
To provident landlords and capitalists (Fabian tract 3)‡ |
|
1885
|
1887 |
The true radical programme (Fabian tract 6: Shaw a contributor)‡ |
|
1887
|
1887–88 |
An Unfinished Novel (novel fragment) |
|
1958
|
1889 |
Fabian Essays in Socialism (ed. Shaw with 2 Shaw essays) |
|
1889; rev. 1908, 1931, 1948
|
1890 |
What socialism is (Fabian tract 13)‡ |
|
1890
|
1890 |
"Ibsen" (Lecture before the Fabian Society |
|
1970
|
1891 |
The Quintessence of Ibsenism (criticism) |
|
1891; rev. 1913
|
1892 |
Fabian election manifesto (Fabian tract 40)‡ |
|
1892
|
1892 |
The Fabian Society: what it has done, and how it has done it (Fabian tract 42)‡ |
|
1892 rev. 1899
|
1892 |
"Vote! Vote!! Vote!!!" (Fabian Tract 43)‡ |
|
1892
|
1893 |
The Impossibilities of Anarchism (Fabian tract 45)‡ |
|
1892
|
1893 |
The Philanderer (play) |
1905 |
1898
|
1893 |
Mrs. Warren's Profession (play) |
1902 |
1898, rev. 1930
|
1893–94 |
Arms and the Man (play) |
1894 |
1898, rev. 1930
|
1894 |
A Plan of Campaign for Labor (incorporating "To Your Tents, O Israel") (Fabian tract 49)‡ |
|
1894
|
1894 |
Candida (play) |
1897 |
1898, rev. 1930
|
1895 |
The Man of Destiny (play) |
1897 |
1898, rev. 1930
|
1895 |
The Sanity of Art (art criticism) |
|
1895, rev. 1908
|
1895–96 |
You Never Can Tell (play) |
1899 |
1898, rev. 1930
|
1896 |
Fabian report and resolutions to the IS and TU Congress (Fabian tract 70)‡ |
|
1896
|
1896 |
The Devil's Disciple (play) |
1897 |
1901, rev. 1904
|
1898 |
The Perfect Wagnerite (music criticism) |
|
1898, rev. 1907
|
1898 |
Caesar and Cleopatra (play) |
1901 |
1901, rev. 1930
|
1899 |
Captain Brassbound's Conversion (play) |
1900 |
1901
|
1900 |
Fabianism and The Empire: A Manifesto (ed. Shaw) |
|
1900
|
1900 |
Women as councillors (Fabian tract 93)‡ |
|
1900
|
1901 |
Socialism for millionaires (Fabian tract 107)‡ ) |
|
1901
|
1901 |
The Admirable Bashville (play) |
1902 |
1901
|
1901–02 |
Man and Superman incorporating Don Juan in Hell (play) |
1905 |
1903; rev. 1930
|
1904 |
Fabianism and the fiscal question (Fabian tract 116)‡ |
|
1904
|
1904 |
John Bull's Other Island (play) |
1904 |
1907; rev. 1930
|
1904 |
How He Lied to Her Husband (play) |
1904 |
1907
|
1904 |
The Common Sense of Municipal Trading (social commentary) |
|
1908
|
1905 |
Major Barbara (play) |
1905 |
1907; rev. 1930, 1945
|
1905 |
Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction (play) |
1905 |
1905
|
1906 |
The Doctor's Dilemma (play) |
1906 |
1911
|
1907 |
The Interlude at the Playhouse (playlet) |
1907 |
1927
|
1907–08 |
Getting Married (play) |
1908 |
1911
|
1907–08 |
Brieux: A Preface (criticism) |
|
1910
|
1909 |
The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet (play) |
1909 |
1911; rev. 1930
|
1909 |
Press Cuttings (play) |
1909 |
1909
|
1909 |
The Glimpse of Reality (play) |
1927 |
1926
|
1909 |
The Fascinating Foundling (play) |
1928 |
1926
|
1909 |
Misalliance (play) |
1910 |
1914; rev. 1930
|
1910 |
Socialism and superior brains: a reply to Mr. Mallock (Fabian tract 146) |
|
1926
|
1910 |
The Dark Lady of the Sonnets (play) |
1910 |
1914
|
1910–11 |
Fanny's First Play (play) |
1911 |
1914;
|
1912 |
Androcles and the Lion (play) |
1913 |
1916
|
1912 |
Overruled (play) |
1912 |
1916
|
1912 |
Pygmalion |
1913 |
1916; rev. 1941
|
1913 |
Beauty's Duty (playlet) |
|
1932
|
1913 |
Great Catherine: Whom Glory Still Adores (play) |
1913 |
1919
|
1913–14 |
The Music-Cure (play) |
1914 |
1926
|
1914 |
Common Sense about The War (political commentary) |
|
1914
|
1914 |
The Case for Belgium (pamphlet) |
|
1914
|
1915 |
The Inca of Perusalem (play) |
1916 |
1919
|
1915 |
O'Flaherty V.C. (play) |
1917 |
1919
|
1915 |
More Common Sense about The War (political commentary) |
|
unpublished
|
1916 |
Augustus Does His Bit (play) |
1917 |
1919
|
1916–17 |
Heartbreak House (play) |
1920 |
1919
|
1917 |
Doctors’ Delusions; Crude Criminology; Sham Education (compilation) |
|
1931
|
1917 |
Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress (play) |
1918 |
1919
|
1917 |
How To Settle The Irish Question (political commentary) |
|
1917
|
1917 |
What I Really Wrote about The War (political commentary) |
|
1931
|
1918–20 |
Back to Methuselah (play) |
1922 |
1921; rev. 1930, 1945
|
1919 |
Peace Conference Hints (political commentary) |
|
1919
|
1919 |
Ruskin's Politics (lecture of 21 November 1919) |
|
1921
|
1920–21 |
Jitta's Atonement (play, adapted from the German) |
1923 |
1926
|
1923 |
Saint Joan (play) |
1923 |
1924
|
1925 |
Imprisonment (social commentary) |
|
1925; rev. 1946 as The Crime of Imprisonment
|
1928 |
The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism |
|
1928; rev. 1937
|
1928 |
The Apple Cart (play) |
1929 |
1930
|
1929 |
The League of Nations (political commentary) |
|
1929
|
1930 |
Socialism: Principles and Outlook, and Fabianism (Fabian tract 233) |
|
1929
|
1931 |
Pen Portraits and Reviews (criticism) |
|
1931
|
1931–34 |
The Millionairess (play) |
1936 |
1936
|
1932 |
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God (story) |
|
1932
|
1932 |
Essays in Fabian Socialism (reprinted tracts with 2 new essays) |
|
1932
|
1932 |
The Rationalization of Russia (political commentary) |
|
1964[7]
|
1933 |
The Future of Political Science in America (political commentary) |
|
1933
|
1933 |
Village Wooing (play) |
1934 |
1934
|
1933 |
On The Rocks (play) |
1933 |
1934
|
1934 |
The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles (play) |
1935 |
1936
|
1934 |
The Six of Calais (play) |
1934 |
1936
|
1934 |
Short Stories, Scraps, and Shavings (stories & playlets) |
1934 |
1934
|
1936 |
Arthur and the Acetone (playlet) |
1936 |
1936
|
1936 |
Cymbeline Refinished (play) |
1937 |
1938
|
1936 |
Geneva (play) |
1938 |
1939; rev. 1939, 1940, 1946, 1947
|
1936–47 |
Buoyant Billions (play) |
1948 |
1949
|
1937–38 |
Pygmalion (film screenplay, with co-writers) |
1938 |
1941[10]
|
1938–39 |
In Good King Charles's Golden Days (play) |
1939 |
1939; rev. 1947
|
1939 |
Shaw Gives Himself Away: An Autobiographical Miscellany |
|
1939
|
1944 |
Everybody’s Political What's What (political commentary) |
|
1944
|
1948 |
Farfetched Fables (play) |
1950 |
1951
|
1948 |
The RADA Graduates' Keeepsake and Counsellor (RADA handbook) |
|
1948[11]
|
1949 |
Sixteen Self Sketches (revision of Shaw Gives Himself Away) |
|
1949
|
1949 |
Shakes versus Shav (puppet play) |
1949 |
1950
|
1950 |
Why She Would Not (play) |
1957 |
1960
|
1950 |
Rhyming Picture Guide to Ayot Saint Lawrence |
|
1950
|