The Doctor's Dilemma: Oranges or Apples? by Norman L Jones

“…George Bernard Shaw's famous play, Doctor's Dilemma (1), is one of the attractions at the Shaw Festival this year, and recently we went to see it on a beautiful Niagara summer day, followed by a picnic beside Ball's Falls. …”
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The Author Inside: Celebrity Photography 1840‒1902 by Audrey Doussot

“…Portraits of Charles Dickens or George Bernard Shaw, for instance, testify to the importance of staging and accessories when seeking to construct authors’ images and to depict their universe as a materialization of their character and psychological interiority.…”
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Fracture-Safe and Fatigue-Reliable Structures by M. N. James

“…Learning from history is, by popular account, something at which human beings are not particularly good; George Bernard Shaw having stated that “we learn from history that we learn nothing from history”, while the Spanish philosopher George Santayana apparently claimed that “those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it”.1 This is certainly true in the field of structural integrity where, some 150 years after the first full-scale structural fatigue tests were carried out, fracture-safe and fatigue-reliable design can be achieved to a statistical probability in complex and sophisticated structures, such as aircraft. …”
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Unpleasant Operas or French Music Drama as Heard by Corno Di Bassetto by Eduardo Valls Oyarzun

“…The status of George Bernard Shaw as an opera critic—a position he filled under the pen-name ‘Corno Di Bassetto’ in different periodicals such as The Star and The World—has been somewhat overlooked in the canon of late Victorian journalism. …”
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‘Wisdom is a gift given to the Wise’: Florence Farr (1860–1917): New Woman, Actress and Pagan Priestess by Muriel Pécastaing-Boissière

“…Nevertheless, Farr has long been studied almost exclusively as George Bernard Shaw’s or William Butler Yeats’s so-called ‘Muse’. …”
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