Abstract
‘Farrago’ was Walkley’s choice epithet, and the one in question was Shaw’s first play at the Court, John Bull’s Other Island, by which he hoped to bring London to its knees. He wrote John Bull in 1904, in a rush, against time, but a play on the perennial ‘Irish Question’, or as he put it, ‘on the contrast between Irish and English character’,1 had been in gestation since 1900 at least. It was at this time that he first sounded W. B. Yeats on the matter. Yeats seemed to like the idea, but nothing came of these early overtures. For one thing Shaw had yet to write his Irish play, for another Yeats had yet to establish his Irish Literary Theatre.
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