# List of works by George Bernard Shaw

The following is a list of works by George Bernard Shaw. The first section shows works in chronological sequence as written, the second tabulates these works by genre. In addition to the works listed here, Shaw produced a large quantity of journalism and criticism, particularly in his role as a music and theatre critic. These items are not included in the lists, except for the collections which Shaw himself supervised and which were published during his lifetime; these appear in the brief third section. Other collections of Shaw's journalism and correspondence, and editions of his plays, have been published since his death but again are not listed here.
The main source is the chronology provided by the International Shaw Society. Items not covered by the chronology are separately cited. Items marked ‡ are works published anonymously by or for the Fabian Society, where Shaw's authorship was later confirmed by the Society. Except where indicated, the publication year is that of first publication.

## Chronological list

| Date written | Title | Year first performed (plays) | Year of publication |
| 1878 | The Legg Papers (abandoned draft of novel) | | unpublished |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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |

## Works listed by genre
### Dramatic works

| Date written | Title | Year first performed | Year of publication |
| 1878 | Passion Play: A Dramatic Fragment | unperformed | |
| 1884 | Un Petit Drame | unperformed | |
| 1884–92 | Widowers' Houses | 1893 | 1893; rev. 1898 |
| 1893 | The Philanderer | 1905 | 1898 |
| 1893 | Mrs. Warren's Profession | 1902 | 1898, rev. 1930 |
| 1893–94 | Arms and the Man | 1894 | 1898, rev. 1930 |
| 1894 | Candida | 1897 | 1898, rev. 1930 |
| 1895 | The Man of Destiny | 1897 | 1898, rev. 1930 |
| 1895–96 | You Never Can Tell | 1899 | 1898, rev. 1930 |
| 1896 | The Devil's Disciple | 1897 | 1901, rev. 1904 |
| 1898 | Caesar and Cleopatra | 1901 | 1901, rev. 1930 |
| 1899 | Captain Brassbound's Conversion | 1900 | 1901 |
| 1901 | The Admirable Bashville | 1902 | 1901 |
| 1901–02 | Man and Superman incorporating Don Juan in Hell | 1905 | 1930 |
| 1904 | John Bull's Other Island | 1904 | 1907; rev. 1930 |
| 1904 | How He Lied to Her Husband | 1904 | 1907 |
| 1905 | Major Barbara (play) | 1905 | 1907; rev. 1930, 1945 |
| 1905 | Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction | 1905 | 1905 |
| 1906 | The Doctor's Dilemma | 1906 | 1911 |
| 1907 | The Interlude at the Playhouse (playlet) | 1907 | 1927 |
| 1907–08 | Getting Married | 1908 | 1911 |
| 1909 | The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet | 1909 | 1911; rev. 1930 |
| 1909 | Press Cuttings | 1909 | 1909 |
| 1909 | The Glimpse of Reality | 1927 | 1926 |
| 1909 | The Fascinating Foundling | 1928 | 1926 |
| 1909 | Misalliance | 1910 | 1914; rev. 1930 |
| 1910 | The Dark Lady of the Sonnets | 1910 | 1914 |
| 1910–11 | Fanny's First Play | 1911 | 1914; |
| 1912 | Androcles and the Lion | 1913 | 1916 |
| 1912 | Overruled | 1912 | 1916 |
| 1912 | Pygmalion | 1913 | 1916; rev. 1941 |
| 1913 | Beauty's Duty (playlet) | unperformed | 1932 |
| 1913 | Great Catherine: Whom Glory Still Adores | 1913 | 1919 |
| 1913–14 | The Music-Cure | 1914 | 1926 |
| 1915 | The Inca of Perusalem | 1916 | 1919 |
| 1915 | O'Flaherty V.C. | 1917 | 1919 |
| 1916 | Augustus Does His Bit | 1917 | 1919 |
| 1916–17 | Heartbreak House | 1920 | 1919 |
| 1917 | Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress | 1918 | 1919 |
| 1918–20 | Back to Methuselah | 1922 | 1921; rev. 1930, 1945 |
| 1920–21 | Jitta's Atonement (adapted from the German) | 1923 | 1926 |
| 1923 | Saint Joan | 1923 | 1924 |
| 1928 | The Apple Cart | 1929 | 1930 |
| 1931–34 | The Millionairess | 1936 | 1936 |
| 1933 | Village Wooing | 1934 | 1934 |
| 1933 | On The Rocks | 1933 | 1934 |
| 1934 | The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles | 1935 | 1936 |
| 1934 | The Six of Calais | 1934 | 1936 |
| 1936 | Arthur and the Acetone (playlet) | 1936 | 1936 |
| 1936 | Cymbeline Refinished | 1937 | 1938 |
| 1936 | Geneva | 1938 | 1939; rev. 1939, 1940, 1946, 1947 |
| 1936–47 | Buoyant Billions | 1948 | 1949 |
| 1937–38 | Pygmalion (film screenplay, with co-writers) | 1938 | 1941 |
| 1938–39 | In Good King Charles's Golden Days | 1939 | 1939; rev. 1947 |
| 1948 | Farfetched Fables | 1950 | 1951 |
| 1949 | Shakes versus Shav (puppet play) | 1949 | 1950 |
| 1950 | Why She Would Not | 1957 | 1960 |

### Political writings

| Date written | Title | Year of publication |
| 1884 | "A Manifesto" (Fabian tract 2)‡ | 1884 |
| 1885 | To provident landlords and capitalists (Fabian tract 3)‡ | 1885 |
| 1887 | The true radical programme (Fabian tract 6: Shaw a contributor)‡ | 1887 |
| 1889 | Fabian Essays in Socialism (ed. Shaw with 2 Shaw essays) | 1889; rev. 1908, 1931, 1948 |
| 1890 | What socialism is (Fabian tract 13)‡ | 1890 |
| 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 |
| 1894 | A Plan of Campaign for Labor (incorporating "To Your Tents, O Israel") (Fabian tract 49)‡ | 1894 |
| 1896 | Fabian report and resolutions to the IS and TU Congress (Fabian tract 70)‡ | 1896 |
| 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 |
| 1904 | Fabianism and the fiscal question (Fabian tract 116)‡ | Fabian Tracts 1902–18 |
| 1904 | The Common Sense of Municipal Trading (social commentary) | 1908 |
| 1910 | Socialism and superior brains: a reply to Mr. Mallock (Fabian tract 146) | 1926 |
| 1914 | Common Sense about The War (political commentary) | 1914 |
| 1914 | The Case for Belgium (pamphlet) | 1914 |
| 1915 | More Common Sense about The War (political commentary) | unpublished |
| 1917 | How To Settle The Irish Question (political commentary) | 1917 |
| 1917 | What I Really Wrote about The War (political commentary) | 1931 |
| 1919 | Peace Conference Hints (political commentary) | 1919 |
| 1919 | Ruskin's Politics (lecture of 21 November 1919) | 1921 |
| 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 |
| 1929 | The League of Nations (political commentary) | 1929 |
| 1930 | Socialism: Principles and Outlook, and Fabianism (Fabian tract 233) | 1929 |
| 1932 | Essays in Fabian Socialism (reprinted tracts with 2 new essays) | 1932 |
| 1932 | The Rationalization of Russia (political commentary) | 1964 |
| 1933 | The Future of Political Science in America (political commentary) | 1933 |
| 1933 | The Political Madhouse in America and Nearer Home (lecture) | 1933 |
| 1944 | Everybody’s Political What's What (political commentary) | 1944 |

### Fiction

| Date written | Title | Year of publication |
| 1878 | The Legg Papers (abandoned draft of novel) | unpublished |
| 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 |
| 1885 | "The Miraculous Revenge" (short story) | 1906 |
| 1887–88 | An Unfinished Novel (novel fragment) | 1958 |
| 1932 | The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God (story) | 1932 |
| 1934 | Short Stories, Scraps, and Shavings (stories & playlets) | 1934 |

### Criticism

| Date written | Title | Year of publication |
| 1895 | The Sanity of Art (art criticism) | 1895, rev. 1908 |
| 1898 | The Perfect Wagnerite (analysis, Wagner's Ring cycle) | 1898, rev. 1907 |
| 1890 | "Ibsen" (Lecture before the Fabian Society) | 1970 |
| 1891 | The Quintessence of Ibsenism (criticism) | 1891; rev. 1913 |
| 1907–08 | Brieux: A Preface (criticism) | 1910 |
| 1931 | Pen Portraits and Reviews (criticism) | 1931 |

### Miscellaneous writings

| Date written | Title | Year of publication |
| 1878 | "My Dear Dorothea..." | 1906 |
| 1939 | Shaw Gives Himself Away: An Autobiographical Miscellany | 1939 |
| 1948 | The RADA Graduates' Keeepsake and Counsellor (RADA handbook) | 1948 |
| 1949 | Sixteen Self Sketches (revision of Shaw Gives Himself Away) | 1949 |
| 1950 | Rhyming Picture Guide to Ayot Saint Lawrence | 1950 |

## Collections published in Shaw's lifetime

| Title | Year of publication |
| Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant: (Unpleasant: Widowers' Houses, The Philanderer and Mrs. Warren's Profession. Pleasant: Arms and the Man, Candida, The Man of Destiny, You Never Can Tell.) | 1898 |
| Three Plays for Puritans ( The Devil's Disciple, Caesar and Cleopatra, Captain Brassbound's Conversion) | 1901 |
| Dramatic Opinions and Essays: (theatre criticism, Saturday Review 1895-98) | 1906 |
| Translations and Tomfooleries: (collection of short plays, including Jitta's Atonement; The Admirable Bashville; Press Cuttings; The Glimpse of Reality; Passion, Poison, and Petrification; The Fascinating Foundling; The Music-Cure) | 1926 |
| Our Theatres in the Nineties: (theatre criticism, Saturday Review 1895-98) | 1932 |
| Music In London: (music criticism, Star 1888–89; World 1890-94) | 1937 |