Harley Granville Barker as John Tanner and Lillah McCarthy as Anne Whitefield in first production, Royal Court Theatre, London, 1905
Written by
George Bernard Shaw
Date premiered
23 May 1905
Place premiered
Stage Society, Royal Court Theatre, London
Original language
English
Genre
Satirical comedy
Man and Superman is a four-act drama written by George Bernard Shaw in 1903, in response to a call for Shaw to write a play based on the Don Juan theme.[1]Man and Superman opened at the Royal Court Theatre in London on 21 May 1905 as a four-act play produced by the Stage Society, and then by John Eugene Vedrenne and Harley Granville-Barker on 23 May, without Act III ("Don Juan in Hell").[2] A part of the third act, Don Juan in Hell (Act 3, Scene 2), was performed when the drama was staged on 4 June 1907 at the Royal Court. The play was not performed in its entirety until 1915, when the Travelling Repertory Company played it at the Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh.
^In his introduction Shaw acknowledges the insistent prompting given by drama critic Arthur Bingham Walkley—Bertolini, John A. (1991). The playwrighting self of Bernard Shaw. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. pp. 29–31. ISBN 0809316501.
^Evans, T.F. (1999). Modern Dramatists: George Bernard Shaw (Critical Heritage). New York: Routledge. p. 98. ISBN 0-415-15953-9.
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