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George Bernard Shaw

Also known as Bernard Shaw, G.B. Shaw, G. Bernard Shaw

Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856–1950)

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George Bernard Shaw was a writer whose work period began in 1880. He was born on 26 July 1856 and died on 2 November 1950. His notable works include *Tolstoy on Shakespeare*, *John Bull's Other Island*, *Major Barbara*, *Augustus Does His Bit*, and *Candida*. Shaw was recognized in the Nobel Literature collection and received the Nobel Prize once.

His writings are associated with the tags audio drama and librivox. Similar artists include Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Roy Dotrice, Nolan North, and Hal Smith. Shaw has been referenced by 3,865 other encyclopedia articles. He is also listed in the Commons category and gallery for George Bernard Shaw.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 26 July 1856
Died: 2 November 1950
Works: 3641

Top works

Tolstoy on Shakespeare
John bull's other island and major barbara
Major Barbara
Augustus Does His Bit
Candida

via Open Library + Wikidata

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 513
Total plays: 3,042

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

A short history ofSHELX
· 2007 · cited 79,955x
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· 2015 · cited 27,696x
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· 2016 · cited 23,645x

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Quotes

“Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it...”
“Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it...”
“No public man in these islands ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means; and I have no reason to hope that Mr Coote may be an exception to the rule.”
“My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.”
“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.”
“I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler. I don't like beer.”

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Literature1925
“for his work which is marked by both idealism and humanity, its stimulating satire often being infused with a singular poetic beauty”

NobelPrize.org →

Works in European collections

4 objects attributed to George Bernard Shaw, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Pygmalion

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Encyclopedic overview

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, Shaw moved to London in 1876; 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.

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