SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD. Typescript of "Prologue to Fanny's First Play (To be substituted for the Induction when the Play alone is performed)." London [1916]. 3 1/2 pages, purple ribbon on rectos of pale blue sheets, with some punctuation corrections, four directions to the printer (13 words), a few minor revisions, and a 15-word revision of two lines, all by Shaw in black ink, a long horizontal tear toward bottom of each sheet repaired with scotch tape (now stained -- the tape over most of the words of Shaw's two-line revision), inscribed by Shaw in red ink at upper left corner of first page: "Proof to G. Bernard Shaw, 10 Adelphi Terrace, London W.C." Laurence AA4: "In 1916 Shaw composed a rhyming alternate prologue to Fanny's First Play [first printed as a rehearsal copy in 1911], to replace the Induction and the Epilogue, allowing for two abridged performances a night during wartime...The text was not published in any edition of Fanny's First Play during Shaw's lifetime." A proof of this typescript was printed in September 1916; it was first published in F.E. Loewenstein, The Rehearsal Copies of Bernard Shaw's Plays, London and New York, 1950; it was first collected in Complete Plays with Their Prefaces, London, 1970-74, vol. 4.

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SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD. Typescript of "Prologue to Fanny's First Play (To be substituted for the Induction when the Play alone is performed)." London [1916]. 3 1/2 pages, purple ribbon on rectos of pale blue sheets, with some punctuation corrections, four directions to the printer (13 words), a few minor revisions, and a 15-word revision of two lines, all by Shaw in black ink, a long horizontal tear toward bottom of each sheet repaired with scotch tape (now stained -- the tape over most of the words of Shaw's two-line revision), inscribed by Shaw in red ink at upper left corner of first page: "Proof to G. Bernard Shaw, 10 Adelphi Terrace, London W.C." Laurence AA4: "In 1916 Shaw composed a rhyming alternate prologue to Fanny's First Play [first printed as a rehearsal copy in 1911], to replace the Induction and the Epilogue, allowing for two abridged performances a night during wartime...The text was not published in any edition of Fanny's First Play during Shaw's lifetime." A proof of this typescript was printed in September 1916; it was first published in F.E. Loewenstein, The Rehearsal Copies of Bernard Shaw's Plays, London and New York, 1950; it was first collected in Complete Plays with Their Prefaces, London, 1970-74, vol. 4.