A Bernard Shaw Chronology

The chronology of Irish playwright and novelist George Bernard Shaw’s life is provided in this detailed account of events and correspondence. Shaw scholar A.M. Gibbs has gathered the major and the minutiae into a single comprehensive record of the author’s life. The chronology is not a biography (Gibbs has one forthcoming as a complement to the chronology) and does not attempt to narrate a story. Rather, the chronology provides factual data in their historical context, aiming to lay out the “chronological facts” of Shaw’s life “at a glance”. As such, A Bernard Shaw Chronology is a helpful reference tool to...