George Bernard Shaw demanded truth and despised convention. He punctured hollow pretensions and smug prudishness--coating his criticism with ingenious and irreverent wit. In <i>Mrs. Warren's Profession</i> <i> Arms and the Man</i> <i> Candida</i> and <i>Man and Superman</i> the great playwright satirizes society military heroism marriage and the pursuit of man by woman. From a social literary and theatrical standpoint these four plays are among the foremost dramas of the age--as intellectually stimulating as they are thoroughly enjoyable. <p/>My way of joking is to tell the truth: It is the funniest joke in the world.--G. B. Shaw <p/><b>With an Introduction by Eric Bentley<br>and an Afterword by Norman Lloyd</b>