Editing Man and Superman (section)

{{Short description|1903 four-act drama by George Bernard Shaw}}
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{{Use British English|date=April 2025}}
{{Infobox play
| name       =Man and Superman
| image      =File:Man and Superman Royal Court Theatre 1906.jpg
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| caption    = [[Harley Granville Barker]] as John Tanner and [[Lillah McCarthy]] as Anne Whitefield in first production, Royal Court Theatre, London, 1905
| writer     = [[George Bernard Shaw]]
| genre      = Satirical comedy
| premiere   = 23 May 1905
| place      = [[Stage Society]], [[Royal Court Theatre]], London
| orig_lang  = English
}}
'''''Man and Superman''''' is a four-act [[drama]] written by [[George Bernard Shaw]] in 1903, in response to a call for Shaw to write a play based on the [[Don Juan]] theme.<ref>In his introduction Shaw acknowledges the insistent prompting given by drama critic [[Arthur Bingham Walkley]]—{{cite book|last1=Bertolini|first1=John A.|title=The playwrighting self of Bernard Shaw|date=1991|publisher=Southern Illinois University Press|location=Carbondale|isbn=0809316501|pages=[https://archive.org/details/playwrightingsel00bert/page/29 29–31]|url=https://archive.org/details/playwrightingsel00bert/page/29}}</ref> ''Man and Superman'' opened at the [[Royal Court Theatre]] in London on 21 May 1905 as a four-act play produced by the [[Stage Society]], and then by [[John Eugene Vedrenne]] and [[Harley Granville-Barker]] on 23 May, without Act III ("Don Juan in Hell").<ref name="theatre">{{cite book|last=Evans|first=T.F.|title=Modern Dramatists: George Bernard Shaw (Critical Heritage)|year=1999|publisher=Routledge|location=New York|isbn=0-415-15953-9|pages=98|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fCehXvIxHb8C&q=23+May+1905+%22man+and+superman%22&pg=PA98}}</ref> A part of the third act (Scene 2), was performed when the drama was staged on 4 June 1907 at the Royal Court. The play was not performed in its entirety until 1915, when the Travelling Repertory Company played it at the [[Royal Lyceum Theatre|Lyceum Theatre]], [[Edinburgh]].