Shakes versus Shav
| Shakes versus Shav | |
|---|---|
| Lanchester's 1953 published version, depicting the Shakespeare and Shaw puppets | |
| Written by | George Bernard Shaw | 
| Characters | |
| Date premiered | August 9, 1949 | 
| Place premiered | Lyceum Hall, Malvern | 
| Subject | Shakespeare and Shaw bicker about who is the better writer | 
| Genre | Puppet | 
Shakes versus Shav (1949) is a puppet play written by George Bernard Shaw. It was Shaw's last completed dramatic work. The play runs for 10 minutes in performance and comprises a comic argument between Shaw and Shakespeare, with the two playwrights bickering about who is the better writer as a form of intellectual equivalent of Punch and Judy.