"A family of pooh-bahs": Shaw's Irish origins
The family skeletons
Growing up in Dublin
The Townshend connections
Self-searching: London and the novels
A Fabian Don Juan
Rival attractions
"The coming man": Critic and "Platform spellbinder"
On stage
A taste of success
Wars of the theaters, mothers and bicycles
An Irish courtship
Marriage
New century, "new religion"
Eternal Irishman
Edwardian summers
Votes for women
Enter critics, stage right
A love affair, a death, and a triumph
Armageddon and the "ruthless light of laughter"
Sages, saints, and flappers
The road to Baveno: dangerous flirtations
World traveler and village squire
Last flourishes and the call of the silver screen
"A man all light": last years.