George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as ''Man and Superman'' (1902), ''Pygmalion'' (1913) and ''Saint Joan'' (1923). With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.Born in Dublin, in 1876 Shaw moved to London, where he struggled to establish himself as a writer and novelist, and embarked on a rigorous process of self-education. By the mid-1880s he had become a respected theatre and music critic. Following a political awakening, he joined the gradualist Fabian Society and became its most prominent pamphleteer. Shaw had been writing plays for years before his first public success, ''Arms and the Man'' in 1894. Influenced by Henrik Ibsen, he sought to introduce a new realism into English-language drama, using his plays as vehicles to disseminate his political, social and religious ideas. By the early twentieth century his reputation as a dramatist was secured with a series of critical and popular successes that included ''Major Barbara'', ''The Doctor's Dilemma'', and ''Caesar and Cleopatra''.
Shaw's expressed views were often contentious; he promoted eugenics and alphabet reform, and opposed vaccination and organised religion. He courted unpopularity by denouncing both sides in the First World War as equally culpable, and although not a republican, castigated British policy on Ireland in the postwar period. These stances had no lasting effect on his standing or productivity as a dramatist; the inter-war years saw a series of often ambitious plays, which achieved varying degrees of popular success. In 1938 he provided the screenplay for a filmed version of ''Pygmalion'' for which he received an Academy Award. His appetite for politics and controversy remained undiminished; by the late 1920s, he had largely renounced Fabian Society gradualism, and often wrote and spoke favourably of dictatorships of the right and left—he expressed admiration for both Mussolini and Stalin. In the final decade of his life, he made fewer public statements but continued to write prolifically until shortly before his death, aged ninety-four, having refused all state honours, including the Order of Merit in 1946.
Since Shaw's death scholarly and critical opinion about his works has varied, but he has regularly been rated among British dramatists as second only to Shakespeare; analysts recognise his extensive influence on generations of English-language playwrights. The word ''Shavian'' has entered the language as encapsulating Shaw's ideas and his means of expressing them. Provided by Wikipedia
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Diez y seis esbozos de mi mismo / by Shaw, Bernard
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Comedias escogidas / by Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950
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Three plays for puritans / by Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950
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Plays unpleasant / by Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950
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Three plays for puritans / by Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950
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Man and superman : a comedy and a philosophy / by Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950
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Plays unpleasant / by Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950
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Major Bárbara / by Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950
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César y Cleopatra : versión española / by Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950
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Pigmalion. Androcles y el León / by Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950
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Saint Joan / by Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950
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Santa Juana : crónica dramática en seis escenas y un epílogo / by Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950
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The doctor's dilemma : a tragedy / by Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950
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Androcles and the lion : a fable play, definitive text / by Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950
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Man and Superman : a comedy and a philosophy / by Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950
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La profesión de la señora Warren / by Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950
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Pygmalion / by Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950
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Pygmalion : a romance in five acts / by Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950
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