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Bernard Shaw's Plays: Major Barbara, Heartbreak House, Saint Joan, Too True to Be Good;

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Presents the texts of four plays with contemporary and modern critical essays and notes on the playwright

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0393099423
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978-0393099423
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W W Norton & Co Inc
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January 1, 1970
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ W W Norton & Co Inc (January 1, 1970)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 494 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0393099423
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393099423
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.19 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 0.75 x 8.25 inches

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Where are the Prefaces?

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 28, 2015

The first sentence in editor Warren Sylvester Smith's preface to this 1970 Norton Critical Edition collecting four of George Bernard Shaw's plays is, "The choice of plays for this volume may not be quite the same as it would have been ten or fifteen years ago." The Norton Critical Edition of Shaw in print today, with Sandie Byrne as editor, was released in 2002, and as Smith might well have predicted, the selection of plays is quite different. "Major Barbara" is the only play to appear in both volumes; the 1970 edition also includes "Heartbreak House," "Saint Joan," and "Too True to Be Good," which are replaced in the current edition with "Mrs. Warren's Profession," "Man and Superman," and "Pygmalion." Both serious Shavians and NCE enthusiasts may well find Smith's volume worth tracking down simply for the chance to see three more plays than are currently in print getting the full Norton treatment, including Shaw's own personal favorite ("Heartbreak House") and one of his most celebrated masterpieces ("Saint Joan").

Unfortunately, I'm sorry to say that the "full Norton treatment" falls a bit short in this case. For reasons that Smith never even attempts to explain, the plays have all been reproduced here without the Prefaces that Shaw wrote to accompany them in print. Surely nothing Smith can offer up here in the way of "backgrounds and criticism" can compare with Shaw's analysis of his own work! Several of the Prefaces are repeatedly quoted and referred to in the critical essays, which makes their absence from the text itself all the more keenly felt: I expect better from Norton than this kind of secondhand insight. I also felt that Smith's editorial approach was somewhat more that of a fan than of a scholar. Obviously I expect the editors Norton chooses to be ones with a profound love for the text in hand, but Smith's personal enthusiasm for Shaw comes through more clearly in his selected content and editorial notes than does his scholarship. The closest thing we have to a negative or contrary view is a three-paragraph excerpt from a book by Shaw's personal friend, G.K. Chesterton, expressing a rather vague disappointment with "Major Barbara." An essay comparing and contrasting the responses of New York theatre critics to "Saint Joan" at its premiere and two subsequent revivals over the course of three decades mentions some negative reviews, even quotes a line or two, but the essay ends with the work universally acknowledged as a "world masterpiece" and we are never given the chance to read any of those negative reviews in their entirety. A couple of essays in the section on "Too True to Be Good" set out to counter the assertion of some critics that Shaw's later plays were disappointingly formless and weak, but we never get to hear any of those critics make their case in the first place. The best Norton Critical Editions I have read offer a lively interplay between widely contrasting perspectives, which I have found leads to a deeper appreciation of the work than this sort of one-sided fawning.

I don't know whether either of these deficiencies has been remedied in the 2002 edition, but I can say that in 1970, at least, Norton's treatment of Shaw, although certainly worth reading, left a lot to be desired.

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Having read the criticism by another online reviewer that "Saint Joan" is misleading, I wondered if we had read the same play. So I had a look at this book and the problem is obvious: no prefaces! Shaw's plays are meant to be read with his prefaces and they shouldn't be separated. Shaw himself intentionally wrote in that mode, noting at one point, "I would give six of the plays that Shakespeare did write for one of the prefaces he ought to have written." That's a little extreme, but the point is taken, and I believe that the general reasoning is valid. Shaw's complete plays with prefaces run to six volumes or so. Take that kind of route if you can; you'll be well rewarded with edification and entertainment.

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