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Having completed Captain Brassbound’s Conversion, the last of the Plays for Puritans, Shaw announced his (temporary) retirement from the theatre in a letter to Ellen Terry:
And now no more plays — at least no more practicable ones. None at all, indeed, for some time to come: it is time to do something more in Shaw-philosophy, in politics & sociology. Your author, dear Ellen, must be more than a common dramatist. (CL, ii, 96)
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Grene, N. (1984). Comedy and Dialectic. In: Bernard Shaw. Studies in Anglo-Irish Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17542-0_4
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