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On 3 February 1915, Mrs Patrick Campbell, on tour in Pygmalion, wrote to Shaw from Chicago to tell him that he was “very much loved here” (Dent 194). Twelve days later, however, Harley Granville Barker, in New York with his production of Androcles and the Lion, wrote to him with a different message: “You are not so loved here as you were” (Salmon, Correspondents 137). The problem, Barker explained, was Common Sense About the War. Shaw’s polemic against the war that had begun in August 1914 received a vitriolic response in England when it was published in the New Statesman on 14 November 1914. Its almost immediate appearance in the New York Times (in serial form in the issues of 15, 22, and 29 November 1914), as well as reprints in several American and Canadian newspapers, also attracted widespread and heated comment.
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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, Shaw Business Papers.
- UNC:
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University of North Carolina, Bernard Shaw Papers, 1878–1964.
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Conolly, L.W. (2022). A Good War in America. 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_7
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