George Bernard Shaw
He was born in 1856 in Dublin, Ireland.
He died in 1950 in Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire, England.
His father name was George Carr Shaw.
His father was a civil servant.
His mother's name was Lucinda Elizabeth Shaw.
She was a talented signer. He was taught first at home by a governess and his uncle.
Then he was sent to the Dublin Wesleyan connexional school.
In 1869, he was transferred to the Central. Model Boys' school in Dublin.
He also joined Wesley College, Dublin
He was an Irish playwright, critic and political activist.
He was a famous dramatist and wrote more than 60 plays.
He was also novel writer and short story writer and an essayist.
He worked as an estate agent's office.
He began his literary career as a novelist.
He married Charlotte Payne-Townshend in 1898.
He has distinction of winning two great awards; Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925 and an Oscar Award in 1938.
He was an ardent advocate of the new theatre of Ibsen.
George Bernard Shaw Famous Works:
Novels
Immaturity
Cashel Byron's Profession
An Unsocial Socialist
The Irrational Knot
Love Among the Artists
The Black Girl in Search of God
The Miraculous Revenge
Plays:
Unpleasant (1898)
Widowers' Houses (1892)
The Philanderer (1898)
Mrs. Warren's Profession (1893),
Plays Pleasant (published 1898):
Arms and the Man (1894)
Candida (1894)
The Man of Destiny (1895)
You Never Can Tell (1897)
The Devil's Disciple (1897)
Caesar and Cleopatra (1898)
Captain Brassbound's Conversion (1899)
The Admirable Bashville (1901)
Three Plays for Puritans (1901)
Man and Superman (1902-03)
John Bull's Other Island (1904)
How He Lied to Her Husband (1904)
Major Barbara (1905)
The Doctor's Dilemma (1906)
Getting Married (1908)
The Glimpse of Reality (1909)
The Fascinating Foundling (1909)
Press Cuttings (1909)
Misalliance (1910)
Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress (1917)
The Dark Lady of the Sonnets (1910)
Fanny's First Play (1911)
Overruled (1912)
Androcles and the Lion (1912)
Pygmalion (1912-13)
The Great Catherine (1913)
The Inca of Perusalem (1915)
O'Flaherty VC (1915)
Augustus Does His Bit (1916)
Heartbreak House (1919)
Back to Methuselah (1921)
Saint Joan (1923)
The Apple Cart (1929)
Too True To Be Good (1931)
On the Rocks (1933)
The Six of Calais (1934)
The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles (1934)
The Shewing Up of Blanco Posnet (1909)
The Millionairess (1936)
Geneva (1938)
In Good King Charles's Golden Days (1939)
Buoyant Billions (1947)
Shakes versus Shav (1949)
Essays:
Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring (1898)
Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
Preface to Major Barbara (1905)
"On Going to Church" (1905)
How to Write a Popular Play (1909)
Treatise on Parents and Children (1910)
Common Sense about the War (1914)
The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism
(1928)
Major Critical Essays (1930). Quintessence of Ibsenism
(1891),
The Perfect Wagnerite (1898)
Essays in Fabian Socialism (1931).
Pen Portraits and Reviews (1931).
(1931).
Doctors' Delusions, Crude Criminology, Sham Education
Our Theatres in the Nineties (1932).
Dictators-
Short Stories, Scraps and Shavings (1932).
Let Us Have More of Them (1938)
Sixteen Self Sketches (1949)
Everybody's Political What's What? (1944)
The Selected Prose of Bernard Shaw (1952).
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