title: Plays: Man and Superman; Candida; Arms and the Man; Mrs Warren's Profession (Signet Classics)
author:  George Bernard Shaw 
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  # Man and Superman
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### George Bernard Shaw
  
  
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  EPISTLE DEDICATORY TO ARTHUR BINGHAM WALKLEY
  
  
  ACT I
  
  
  ACT II
  
  
  ACT III
  
  
  ACT IV
  
  
  
  
  
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  MAN AND SUPERMAN
  
  
  A COMEDY AND A PHILOSOPHY
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  EPISTLE DEDICATORY TO ARTHUR BINGHAM WALKLEY
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  My dear Walkley:
  
  
    
  You once asked me why I did not write a Don Juan play. The levity
  
  
  with which you assumed this frightful responsibility has probably by
  
  
  this time enabled you to forget it; but the day of reckoning has
  
  
  arrived: here is your play! I say your play, because qui facit per
  
  
  alium facit per se. Its profits, like its labor, belong to me: its
  
  
  morals, its manners, its philosophy, its influence on the young, are
  
  
  for you to justify. You were of mature age when you made the
  
  
  suggestion; and you knew your man. It is hardly fifteen years since,
  
  
  as twin pioneers of the Ne