Christopher Wixson is Professor of English and Theatre Arts at Eastern Illinois University, USA. He teaches advanced courses in early modern drama and modernism, script analysis and dramaturgy, and general education courses in writing and literature. He has published widely on twentieth-century British and American drama and is General Editor of SHAW: The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies.

• 1. Introduction: “Press as Corrected, G.B.S.”.- 2. Prescription and Petrifaction: Proprietary Medicine, Health Marketing, and Misalliance.- 3. “The Shadow of Disrepute”: G.B.S. and Testimonial Marketing.- 4. “The Biggest Scoop in Advertising History”: Personality Marketing, G.B.S., and the Near-Testimonial.- 5. “Those Magic Initials, GBS”: Copywriting for the Irish Clipper.

Christopher Wixson is Professor of English and Theatre Arts at Eastern Illinois University, USA. He teaches advanced courses in early modern drama and modernism, script analysis and dramaturgy, and general education courses in writing and literature. He has published widely on twentieth-century British and American drama and is General Editor of SHAW: The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies.

• 1. Introduction: “Press as Corrected, G.B.S.”.- 2. Prescription and Petrifaction: Proprietary Medicine, Health Marketing, and Misalliance.- 3. “The Shadow of Disrepute”: G.B.S. and Testimonial Marketing.- 4. “The Biggest Scoop in Advertising History”: Personality Marketing, G.B.S., and the Near-Testimonial.- 5. “Those Magic Initials, GBS”: Copywriting for the Irish Clipper.

Christopher Wixson is Professor of English and Theatre Arts at Eastern Illinois University, USA. He teaches advanced courses in early modern drama and modernism, script analysis and dramaturgy, and general education courses in writing and literature. He has published widely on twentieth-century British and American drama and is General Editor of SHAW: The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies.

• 1. Introduction: “Press as Corrected, G.B.S.”.- 2. Prescription and Petrifaction: Proprietary Medicine, Health Marketing, and Misalliance.- 3. “The Shadow of Disrepute”: G.B.S. and Testimonial Marketing.- 4. “The Biggest Scoop in Advertising History”: Personality Marketing, G.B.S., and the Near-Testimonial.- 5. “Those Magic Initials, GBS”: Copywriting for the Irish Clipper.