Abstract
Arms and the Man, Shaw’s fourth play and his first commercial success, had its world premiere at London’s Avenue Theatre on 21 April 1894, where it ran for a total of fifty performances.
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Abbreviations
- CL :
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Bernard Shaw, Collected Letters. Ed. Dan H. Laurence. 4 vols. New York: Viking Penguin, 1965–1988.
- CPP :
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Bernard Shaw, Collected Plays with Their Prefaces. Dan H. Laurence, Editorial Supervisor. 7 volumes. London: Max Reinhardt, the Bodley Head, 1970–1974.
- FLP:
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Free Library of Philadelphia, Special Collections.
- HRC:
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Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Bernard Shaw Collection.
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Conolly, L.W. (2022). First Steps: The Mansfield Years. In: Bernard Shaw on the American Stage. Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04241-6_2
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