E. J. West
Shaw on Theatre
60 years of collected letters, speeches, and articles. Contains:Appendix to The Quintessence of Ibsenism, A Dramatic Realist to his Critics, Preface to The Theatrical « World » of 1894, How to Lecture on Ibsen, The Problem Play-A Symposium, The Censorship of the Stage in England, On Being a Lady in High Comedy, Why Cyril Maude Did Not Produce You Never Can Tell, How to Make Plays Readable, The Dying Tongue of Great Elizabeth, Letters to Louis Calvert on Playing Undershaft, What Is the Finest Dramatic Situation?, Mr. Trench’s Dramatic Values, On the Principles that Govern the Dramatist, To Audiences at Major Barbara, On Cutting Shakespear, Lord Grey, Shakespear, Mr Archer, and Others, I Am a Classic But Am I a Shakespear Thief?, Letter to J.T. Grein, Shakespear: A Standard Text, On Clive Bell’s Article, The Art of Rehearsal, Shakespear and the Stratford-upon-Avon Theatre: A Plea for Reconstruction, On Printed Plays, John Barrymore’s Hamlet, Theatres and Reviews Then and Now, The Colossus Speaks, Playhouses and Plays, Mr. Shaw on Mr. Shaw, Bernard Shaw Talks about Actors and Acting, Speech as Guest of Honor at London Critics Circle Annual Luncheon, On Gordon Craig’s Henry Irving, My First Talkie, Gordon Craig and the Shaw-Terr Letters, Arms and the Man on the Screen, Too True to be Good, An Aside, Dramatic Antiquities at Malvern, Playwrights and Amateurs, The Simple Truth of the Matter, This Year’s Program, Saint Joan Banned.