last scene". Shaw was given to disparaging those he imitated, such as Scribe and Gilbert, and wrote, "Who was Scribe that he should dictate to me or anyone else how a play should be written?" Shaw was particularly dismissive of Sardou, for his concentration on plot rather than character or ideas – "Sardoodledom", as Shaw called it – but he nonetheless used the established techniques to convey his own didactic ideas, as he admitted in his preface to Three Plays for Puritans (1900), almost 40 years after Scribe's death. In a study for the Modern Language Association, Milton Crane includes Pygmalion, Man and Superman, and The Doctor's Dilemma among those of Shaw's plays in the "well-made" category. Notes References Footnotes Sources External links Dramatic Technique by George Pierce Baker 19th-century theatre Drama Theatrical genres