The main source is the chronology provided by the International Shaw Society. Items not covered by the chronology are separately cited. Items marked ‡ are works published anonymously by or for the Fabian Society, where Shaw's authorship was later confirmed by the Society. Except where indicated, the publication year is that of first publication.
| Date written | Title | Year first performed (plays) | Year of publication |
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| 1878 | The Legg Papers (abandoned draft of novel) | | | unpublished |
| 1878 | "My Dear Dorothea..." | | | 1906 |
| 1878 | Passion Play (fragment) | | 1971 |
| 1879 | Immaturity (novel) | | 1930 |
| 1880 | The Irrational Knot (novel) | | serial 1885–7; book 1905 |
| 1881 | Love Among the Artists (novel) | | serial 1887–8; book 1900 |
| 1882 | Cashel Byron's Profession (novel) | | | serial 1885–6; book 1886; rev 1889, 1901 |
| 1883 | An Unsocial Socialist (novel) | | serial 1884; book 1887 |
| 1884 | "A Manifesto" (Fabian tract 2)‡ | | 1884 |
| 1884 | Un Petit Drame (playlet) | | 1959 |
| 1884–92 | Widowers' Houses (play) | 1893 | 1893; rev. 1898 |
| 1885 | "The Miraculous Revenge" (short story) | | 1906 |
| 1885 | To provident landlords and capitalists (Fabian tract 3)‡ | | 1885 |
| 1887 | The true radical programme (Fabian tract 6: Shaw a contributor)‡ | | 1887 |
| 1887–88 | An Unfinished Novel (novel fragment) | | 1958 |
| 1889 | Fabian Essays in Socialism (ed. Shaw with 2 Shaw essays) | | 1889; rev. 1908, 1931, 1948 |
| 1890 | What socialism is (Fabian tract 13)‡ | | 1890 |
| 1890 | "Ibsen" (Lecture before the Fabian Society | | 1970 |
| 1891 | The Quintessence of Ibsenism (criticism) | | 1891; rev. 1913 |
| 1892 | Fabian election manifesto (Fabian tract 40)‡ | | 1892 |
| 1892 | The Fabian Society: what it has done, and how it has done it (Fabian tract 42)‡ | | 1892 rev. 1899 |
| 1892 | "Vote! Vote | Vote | !" (Fabian Tract 43)‡ | | 1892 |
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| 1893 | The Impossibilities of Anarchism (Fabian tract 45)‡ | | 1892 |
| 1893 | The Philanderer (play) | 1905 | 1898 |
| 1893 | Mrs. Warren's Profession (play) | 1902 | 1898, rev. 1930 |
| 1893–94 | Arms and the Man (play) | 1894 | 1898, rev. 1930 |
| 1894 | A Plan of Campaign for Labor (incorporating "To Your Tents, O Israel") (Fabian tract 49)‡ | | 1894 |
| 1894 | Candida (play) | 1897 | 1898, rev. 1930 |
| 1895 | The Man of Destiny (play) | 1897 | 1898, rev. 1930 |
| 1895 | The Sanity of Art (art criticism) | | 1895, rev. 1908 |
| 1895–96 | You Never Can Tell (play) | 1899 | 1898, rev. 1930 |
| 1896 | Fabian report and resolutions to the IS and TU Congress (Fabian tract 70)‡ | | 1896 |
| 1896 | The Devil's Disciple (play) | 1897 | 1901, rev. 1904 |
| 1898 | The Perfect Wagnerite (music criticism) | | 1898, rev. 1907 |
| 1898 | Caesar and Cleopatra (play) | 1901 | 1901, rev. 1930 |
| 1899 | Captain Brassbound's Conversion (play) | 1900 | 1901 |
| 1900 | Fabianism and The Empire: A Manifesto (ed. Shaw) | | 1900 |
| 1900 | Women as councillors (Fabian tract 93)‡ | | 1900 |
| 1901 | Socialism for millionaires (Fabian tract 107)‡) | | 1901 |
| 1901 | The Admirable Bashville (play) | 1902 | 1901 |
| 1901–02 | Man and Superman incorporating Don Juan in Hell (play) | 1905 | 1903; rev. 1930 |
| 1904 | Fabianism and the fiscal question (Fabian tract 116)‡ | | 1904 |
| 1904 | John Bull's Other Island (play) | 1904 | 1907; rev. 1930 |
| 1904 | How He Lied to Her Husband (play) | 1904 | 1907 |
| 1904 | The Common Sense of Municipal Trading (social commentary) | | 1908 |
| 1905 | Major Barbara (play) | 1905 | 1907; rev. 1930, 1945 |
| 1905 | Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction (play) | 1905 | 1905 |
| 1906 | The Doctor's Dilemma (play) | 1906 | 1911 |
| 1907 | The Interlude at the Playhouse (playlet) | 1907 | 1927 |
| 1907–08 | Getting Married (play) | 1908 | 1911 |
| 1907–08 | Brieux: A Preface (criticism) | | 1910 |
| 1909 | The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet (play) | 1909 | 1911; rev. 1930 |
| 1909 | Press Cuttings (play) | 1909 | 1909 |
| 1909 | The Glimpse of Reality (play) | 1927 | 1926 |
| 1909 | The Fascinating Foundling (play) | 1928 | 1926 |
| 1909 | Misalliance (play) | 1910 | 1914; rev. 1930 |
| 1910 | Socialism and superior brains: a reply to Mr. Mallock (Fabian tract 146) | | 1926 |
| 1910 | The Dark Lady of the Sonnets (play) | 1910 | 1914 |
| 1910–11 | Fanny's First Play (play) | 1911 | 1914; |
| 1912 | Androcles and the Lion (play) | 1913 | 1916 |
| 1912 | Overruled (play) | 1912 | 1916 |
| 1912 | Pygmalion | 1913 | 1916; rev. 1941 |
| 1913 | Beauty's Duty (playlet) | | 1932 |
| 1913 | (play) | 1913 | 1919 |
| 1913–14 | The Music-Cure (play) | 1914 | 1926 |
| 1914 | Common Sense about The War (political commentary) | | 1914 |
| 1914 | The Case for Belgium (pamphlet) | | 1914 |
| 1915 | The Inca of Perusalem (play) | 1916 | 1919 |
| 1915 | O'Flaherty V.C. (play) | 1917 | 1919 |
| 1915 | More Common Sense about The War (political commentary) | | unpublished |
| 1916 | Augustus Does His Bit (play) | 1917 | 1919 |
| 1916–17 | Heartbreak House (play) | 1920 | 1919 |
| 1917 | Doctors’ Delusions; Crude Criminology; Sham Education (compilation) | | 1931 |
| 1917 | Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress (play) | 1918 | 1919 |
| 1917 | How To Settle The Irish Question (political commentary) | | 1917 |
| 1917 | What I Really Wrote about The War (political commentary) | | 1931 |
| 1918–20 | Back to Methuselah (play) | 1922 | 1921; rev. 1930, 1945 |
| 1919 | Peace Conference Hints (political commentary) | | 1919 |
| 1919 | Ruskin's Politics (lecture of 21 November 1919) | | 1921 |
| 1920–21 | Jitta's Atonement (play, adapted from the German) | 1923 | 1926 |
| 1923 | Saint Joan (play) | 1923 | 1924 |
| 1925 | Imprisonment (social commentary) | | 1925; rev. 1946 as The Crime of Imprisonment |
| 1928 | The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism | | 1928; rev. 1937 |
| 1928 | The Apple Cart (play) | 1929 | 1930 |
| 1929 | The League of Nations (political commentary) | | 1929 |
| 1930 | Socialism: Principles and Outlook, and Fabianism (Fabian tract 233) | | 1929 |
| 1931 | Pen Portraits and Reviews (criticism) | | 1931 |
| 1931–34 | The Millionairess (play) | 1936 | 1936 |
| 1932 | The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God (story) | | 1932 |
| 1932 | Essays in Fabian Socialism (reprinted tracts with 2 new essays) | | 1932 |
| 1932 | The Rationalization of Russia (political commentary) | | 1964[1] |
| 1933 | The Future of Political Science in America (political commentary) | | 1933 |
| 1933 | Village Wooing (play) | 1934 | 1934 |
| 1933 | On The Rocks (play) | 1933 | 1934 |
| 1934 | The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles (play) | 1935 | 1936 |
| 1934 | The Six of Calais (play) | 1934 | 1936 |
| 1934 | Short Stories, Scraps, and Shavings (stories & playlets) | 1934 | 1934 |
| 1936 | Arthur and the Acetone (playlet) | 1936 | 1936 |
| 1936 | Cymbeline Refinished (play) | 1937 | 1938 |
| 1936 | Geneva (play) | 1938 | 1939; rev. 1939, 1940, 1946, 1947 |
| 1936–47 | Buoyant Billions (play) | 1948 | 1949 |
| 1937–38 | Pygmalion (film screenplay, with co-writers) | 1938 | 1941[2] |
| 1938–39 | In Good King Charles's Golden Days (play) | 1939 | 1939; rev. 1947 |
| 1939 | Shaw Gives Himself Away: An Autobiographical Miscellany | | 1939 |
| 1944 | Everybody’s Political What's What (political commentary) | | 1944 |
| 1948 | Farfetched Fables (play) | 1950 | 1951 |
| 1948 | The RADA Graduates' Keeepsake and Counsellor (RADA handbook) | | 1948[3] |
| 1949 | Sixteen Self Sketches (revision of Shaw Gives Himself Away) | | 1949 |
| 1949 | Shakes versus Shav (puppet play) | 1949 | 1950 |
| 1950 | Why She Would Not (play) | 1957 | 1960 |
| 1950 | Rhyming Picture Guide to Ayot Saint Lawrence | | 1950 | |
| Date written | Title | Year of publication |
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| 1884 | "A Manifesto" (Fabian tract 2)‡ | 1884 |
| 1885 | To provident landlords and capitalists (Fabian tract 3)‡ | 1885 |
| 1887 | The true radical programme (Fabian tract 6: Shaw a contributor)‡ | 1887 |
| 1889 | Fabian Essays in Socialism (ed. Shaw with 2 Shaw essays) | 1889; rev. 1908, 1931, 1948 |
| 1890 | What socialism is (Fabian tract 13)‡ | 1890 |
| 1892 | Fabian election manifesto (Fabian tract 40)‡ | 1892 |
| 1892 | The Fabian Society: what it has done, and how it has done it (Fabian tract 42)‡ | 1892 rev. 1899 |
| 1892 | "Vote! Vote | Vote | !" (Fabian Tract 43)‡ | 1892 |
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| 1893 | The Impossibilities of Anarchism (Fabian tract 45)‡ | 1892 |
| 1894 | A Plan of Campaign for Labor (incorporating "To Your Tents, O Israel") (Fabian tract 49)‡ | 1894 |
| 1896 | Fabian report and resolutions to the IS and TU Congress (Fabian tract 70)‡ | 1896 |
| 1900 | Fabianism and The Empire: A Manifesto (ed. Shaw) | 1900 |
| 1900 | Women as councillors (Fabian tract 93)‡ | 1900 |
| 1901 | Socialism for millionaires (Fabian tract 107)‡) | 1901 |
| 1904 | Fabianism and the fiscal question (Fabian tract 116)‡ | 1904Fiction
| Date written | Title | Year of publication |
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| 1878 | The Legg Papers (abandoned draft of novel) | | unpublished | | 1879 | Immaturity (novel) | 1930 | | 1880 | The Irrational Knot (novel) | serial 1885–7; book 1905 | | 1881 | Love Among the Artists (novel) | serial 1887–8; book 1900 | | 1882 | Cashel Byron's Profession (novel) | | serial 1885–6; book 1886; rev 1889, 1901 | | 1883 | An Unsocial Socialist (novel) | serial 1884; book 1887 | | 1885 | "The Miraculous Revenge" (short story) | 1906 | | 1887–88 | An Unfinished Novel (novel fragment) | 1958 | | 1932 | The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God (story) | 1932 | | 1934 | Short Stories, Scraps, and Shavings (stories & playlets) | 1934 | |
Criticism
| Date written | Title | Year of publication |
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| 1895 | The Sanity of Art (art criticism) | 1895, rev. 1908 | | 1898 | The Perfect Wagnerite (analysis, Wagner's Ring cycle) | 1898, rev. 1907 | | 1890 | "Ibsen" (Lecture before the Fabian Society | 1970 | | 1891 | The Quintessence of Ibsenism (criticism) | 1891; rev. 1913 | | 1907–08 | Brieux: A Preface (criticism) | 1910 | | 1931 | Pen Portraits and Reviews (criticism) | 1931 | |
Miscellaneous writings
| Date written | Title | Year of publication |
|---|
| 1878 | "My Dear Dorothea..." | | 1906 | | 1939 | Shaw Gives Himself Away: An Autobiographical Miscellany | 1939 | | 1948 | The RADA Graduates' Keeepsake and Counsellor (RADA handbook) | 1948 | | 1949 | Sixteen Self Sketches (revision of Shaw Gives Himself Away) | 1949 | | 1950 | Rhyming Picture Guide to Ayot Saint Lawrence | 1950 | |
Collections published in Shaw's lifetime
| Title | Year of publication |
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| Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant: (Unpleasant: Widowers' Houses, The Philanderer and Mrs. Warren's Profession. Pleasant: Arms and the Man, Candida, The Man of Destiny, You Never Can Tell.) | 1898 | | Three Plays for Puritans (The Devil's Disciple, Caesar and Cleopatra, Captain Brassbound's Conversion) | 1901 | | Dramatic Opinions and Essays: (theatre criticism, Saturday Review 1895-98) | 1906 | | Translations and Tomfooleries: (collection of short plays, including Jitta's Atonement; The Admirable Bashville; Press Cuttings; The Glimpse of Reality; Passion, Poison, and Petrification; The Fascinating Foundling; The Music-Cure) | 1926[4] | | Our Theatres in the Nineties: (theatre criticism, Saturday Review 1895-98) | 1932 | | Music In London: (music criticism, Star 1888–89; World 1890-94) | 1937 | |
Notes and references
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