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(1856-1950)
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Irish Author
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A leading figure of the XXth century theater
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This son of a wholesale grain trader, born in Dublin, was
not only a playwright, essayist, pamphleteer, critic and
journalist: he was a freethinker socialist too.
He had supported equality of women's rights, abolition of
private property, equality of income and radical change in
the voting system.
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Shaw wrote over 40 plays, and was still writing in his
nineties.
He had begun as a playwright in
1885.
Among his early successes were Arms
and the Man (1894), Candida (1897), and The Devil's Disciple
(1897). There followed Man and Superman (1905), Major
Barbara (1905), The Doctor's Dilemma
(1906).
Later plays published were
Androcles and the Lion (1912), and his famous "realistic"
Pygmalion (1913), to become the musical play My Fair Lady,
in 1956 (filmed in 1964). After World War 1 came Heartbreak
House (1919), Back to Methuselah (1921), and Saint Joan
(1923).
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In 1935 Shaw was awarded the Nobel Prize of Literature
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He accepted the honour but refused the money...
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Contemporaries:
Shaw campaigned for
the spelling reform of the English alphabet.
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