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It was a mark of Shaw’s burgeoning reputation in the United States—and the possibility of making good money from his plays—that four of the country’s leading theatre impresarios—namely, Charles Frohman, Lee Shubert, Marc Klaw, and George Tyler—jostled and manoeuvred so assiduously to gain his favour when a new play came along. Especially one so promising as Pygmalion. And one starring the illustrious Mrs Patrick Campbell, to boot.
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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.
- HRC:
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Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Bernard Shaw Collection.
- LSE:
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London School of Economics, Bernard Shaw Business Papers.
- Yale:
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Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Theatre Guild Archives).
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Conolly, L.W. (2022). Eliza Comes to Broadway. 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_6
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