George Bernard Shaw at Whitehall Court. During the first decade of the twentieth century, Shaw secured a firm reputation as a playwright. In 1904 J. E. Vedrenne and Harley Granville-Barker established a company at the Royal Court Theatre in Sloane Square, Chelsea to present modern drama. Over the next five years they staged fourteen of Shaw's plays. The first, "John Bull's Other Island", a comedy about an Englishman in Ireland, attracted leading politicians and was seen by Edward VII, who laughed so much that he broke his chair. The play was withheld from Dublin's Abbey Theatre, for fear of the affront it might
Poems of Today Henry Treece - R. C. Trevelyan - W. J. Turner - John Waller - Rex Warner - Vernon Watkins - Dorothy Wellesley - Laurence Whistler - W. B. Yeats - Andrew Young Poems of Today Poems of Today was a series of anthologies of poetry, almost all Anglo-Irish, produced by the English Association. A. E. - Lascelles Abercrombie - H. C. Beeching - Hilaire Belloc - Laurence Binyon - W. S. Blunt - Robert Bridges - Rupert Brooke - William Canton - P. R. Chalmers - G. K. Chesterton - Mary E. Coleridge - Padraic Colum - Frances Cornford -