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World Premieres at the Theatre Guild

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Bernard Shaw on the American Stage

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Abstract

When playwriting colleague (and future biographer) St John Ervine wrote in early 1919 to ask Shaw if he knew anything about an American theatre producer named Lawrence Langner, Shaw had to confess that “I don’t know who Langner is” (2 March 1919; HRC 36.3). He soon would.

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Abbreviations

CL :

Bernard Shaw, Collected Letters. Ed. Dan H. Laurence. 4 vols. New York: Viking Penguin, 1965–1988

CPP :

Bernard Shaw, Collected Plays with Their Prefaces. Dan H. Laurence, Editorial Supervisor. 7 volumes. London: Max Reinhardt, the Bodley Head, 1970–1974

HRC:

Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Bernard Shaw Collection

LSE:

London School of Economics, Bernard Shaw Business Papers

Yale:

Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Theatre Guild Archives)

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Conolly, L.W. (2022). World Premieres at the Theatre Guild. 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_9

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