Bernard F. Dukore is University Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Theatre Arts and Humanities at Virginia Tech, USA. He has written extensively on Bernard Shaw and other modern dramatists, including Shaw’s fellow-Nobel prizewinner, Harold Pinter. His most recent books on Shaw are Crimes and Punishments and Bernard Shaw (2017), Bernard Shaw and the Censors: Fights and Failures, Stage and Screen (2020), and Unions, Strikes, Shaw: “The Capitalism of the Proletariat” (2022).

Reviews of the original edition:“One comes away from Bernard Shaw, Playwright feeling that the Shavian canon coheres more than fifty-four disparate plays over more than sixty years lead the reader to expect, that there are neglected plays which should not be ignored, and that there are things in the familiar plays one hadn’t seen before. A most useful work, indeed.” – The Shaw Review“He establishes . . . the similarities which obtain among all of Shaw's plays and the outlines of a coherent universe for Shaw, along with shrewd judgments. . . . his book is otherwise distinguished by his depth of sensibility and by his command of the Shavian canon. . . . Dukore's book takes its place with the works of the critics whom he lists . . . as influencing him. . . . Dukore's book is, above all, interesting to read. He is so immersed in his subject that his feeling for it is infectious. . . . Dukore's book is worthy of its subject, in no way more so than in his tacit admission that he has not fully encompassed it.” – Frederick P. W. McDowell, Journal of Modern Literature, 4.1 (Sept, 1974), 145-154.

• Introduction. Part One: Shaw on Playwriting. Part Two: Shaw the Playwright. 1. Discussions in Plays and Discussion Plays 2. Foundations and Development 3. The Center and the Frame 4. Repairing and Refinishing 5. The Absurd and the Existential 6. The Socialist Goal and the Parable Form. Bibliography. Index.

Bernard F. Dukore is University Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Theatre Arts and Humanities at Virginia Tech, USA. He has written extensively on Bernard Shaw and other modern dramatists, including Shaw’s fellow-Nobel prizewinner, Harold Pinter. His most recent books on Shaw are Crimes and Punishments and Bernard Shaw (2017), Bernard Shaw and the Censors: Fights and Failures, Stage and Screen (2020), and Unions, Strikes, Shaw: “The Capitalism of the Proletariat” (2022).

Reviews of the original edition:“One comes away from Bernard Shaw, Playwright feeling that the Shavian canon coheres more than fifty-four disparate plays over more than sixty years lead the reader to expect, that there are neglected plays which should not be ignored, and that there are things in the familiar plays one hadn’t seen before. A most useful work, indeed.” – The Shaw Review“He establishes . . . the similarities which obtain among all of Shaw's plays and the outlines of a coherent universe for Shaw, along with shrewd judgments. . . . his book is otherwise distinguished by his depth of sensibility and by his command of the Shavian canon. . . . Dukore's book takes its place with the works of the critics whom he lists . . . as influencing him. . . . Dukore's book is, above all, interesting to read. He is so immersed in his subject that his feeling for it is infectious. . . . Dukore's book is worthy of its subject, in no way more so than in his tacit admission that he has not fully encompassed it.” – Frederick P. W. McDowell, Journal of Modern Literature, 4.1 (Sept, 1974), 145-154.

• Introduction. Part One: Shaw on Playwriting. Part Two: Shaw the Playwright. 1. Discussions in Plays and Discussion Plays 2. Foundations and Development 3. The Center and the Frame 4. Repairing and Refinishing 5. The Absurd and the Existential 6. The Socialist Goal and the Parable Form. Bibliography. Index.

Bernard F. Dukore is University Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Theatre Arts and Humanities at Virginia Tech, USA. He has written extensively on Bernard Shaw and other modern dramatists, including Shaw’s fellow-Nobel prizewinner, Harold Pinter. His most recent books on Shaw are Crimes and Punishments and Bernard Shaw (2017), Bernard Shaw and the Censors: Fights and Failures, Stage and Screen (2020), and Unions, Strikes, Shaw: “The Capitalism of the Proletariat” (2022).

Reviews of the original edition:“One comes away from Bernard Shaw, Playwright feeling that the Shavian canon coheres more than fifty-four disparate plays over more than sixty years lead the reader to expect, that there are neglected plays which should not be ignored, and that there are things in the familiar plays one hadn’t seen before. A most useful work, indeed.” – The Shaw Review“He establishes . . . the similarities which obtain among all of Shaw's plays and the outlines of a coherent universe for Shaw, along with shrewd judgments. . . . his book is otherwise distinguished by his depth of sensibility and by his command of the Shavian canon. . . . Dukore's book takes its place with the works of the critics whom he lists . . . as influencing him. . . . Dukore's book is, above all, interesting to read. He is so immersed in his subject that his feeling for it is infectious. . . . Dukore's book is worthy of its subject, in no way more so than in his tacit admission that he has not fully encompassed it.” – Frederick P. W. McDowell, Journal of Modern Literature, 4.1 (Sept, 1974), 145-154.

• Introduction. Part One: Shaw on Playwriting. Part Two: Shaw the Playwright. 1. Discussions in Plays and Discussion Plays 2. Foundations and Development 3. The Center and the Frame 4. Repairing and Refinishing 5. The Absurd and the Existential 6. The Socialist Goal and the Parable Form. Bibliography. Index.