diminishingtheir successas entertainments.Such works,including Caesar and Cleopatra(1898),Man and Superman(1903),Major Barbara(1905)and The Doctor's Dilemma(1906),display Shaws matured views,for he was approaching 50 when he wrote them 5 From 1904 to 1907,several ofhis plays had their London premieres in notable productions at the Court Theatre,managed by Harley Granville-Barker andJ.E.Vedrenne.The first ofhis new playsto be performed at the Court Theatre,John Bull's Other Island(1904), while not especially populartoday,made his reputaioninLondon when King Edward VII laughed so hard duringa command performance that he broke his chair. By the 1910s,Shawwas a well-established playwright.New works 5 such as Fanny's First Play(1911)and Pygmalion(1912),had long runs in front oflarge London audiences.Shawhad permitted a musical adaptation of Arms and the Man(1894)called The Chocolate Soldier(1908),but he had a low opinion ofGerman operetta.He insisted that none ofhis dialogue be used,and thatall the character names be changed,although the operettaactually follows Shaw's plot quite closely,in particular preserving its anti-war message.The work proved very popular and would have made Shaw 5 rich had he not waived his royalties,but he detested it and for the rest diminishing their success as entertainments. Such works, including Caesar and Cleopatra (1898), Man and Superman (1903), Major Barbara (1905) and The Doctor's Dilemma (1906), display Shaw's matured views, for he was approaching 50 when he wrote them. From 1904 to 1907, several of his plays had their London premieres in notable productions at the Court Theatre, managed by Harley Granville-Barker and J. E. Vedrenne. The first of his new plays to be performed at the Court Theatre, John Bull's Other Island (1904), while not especially popular today, made his reputation in London when King Edward VIIlaughed so hard during a command performance that he broke his chair. By the 1910s, Shaw was a well-established playwright. New works such as Fanny's First Play (1911) and Pygmalion (1912), had long runs in front of large London audiences. Shaw had permitted a musical adaptation of Arms and the Man (1894) called The Chocolate Soldier (1908), but he had a low opinion of German operetta. He insisted that none of his dialogue be used, and that all the character names be changed, although the operetta actually follows Shaw's plot quite closely, in particular preserving its anti-war message. The work proved very popular and would have made Shaw rich had he not waived his royalties, but he detested it and for the rest 5’ 5’ 5’