George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright/dramatist, socialist and literary critic. He was known as propagandist, monologist, satirist, vegetarian, teetotaller and critic of formal education, as he was known as an advocate for socialism and women's rights. He was born in Dublin on 26 July, 1856 and died on 2 November, 1950.
George Bernard Shaw was born in a lower middle class family, to a civil servant and a corn miller/grain merchant. His father was George Carr Show (1814-1885) and his mother was Lucinda Elizabeth Shaw (1830-1913) who had been a professional singer.
Shaw attended the Wesleyan Connexion School, a private school near Dalkey, Dublin's Central Model School and Dublin English Scientific and Commercial Day School. He was bitterly opposed to those schools and teachers.
His plays first performed in the 1890s. He wrote more than sixty plays; among them was the classical myth, Pygmalion as focused on the complex of the human relations in the business world.
George Bernard Shaw hated to be called George and never used that name. He was awarded Noble Prize in literature in 1925 and an Oscar in 1938 for Pygmalion. My Fair Lady, a musical adapted from Pygmalion by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe became a hit in music.
From George Bernard Shaw's works:
Arms and the Man 1894
The Man of Destiny 1895
You Never Can Tell 1897
Caesar and Cleopatra 1898
Man and Superman 1902
