Author won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925
BERNARD SHAW was born in Dublin in 1856. After his arrival in
London in 1876 he became an active Socialist and a brilliant
platform speaker. He wrote on many social aspects of the day- on
Common Sense about the War (1914), How to Settle the Irish Question
(1917) and The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and
Capitalism (1928). He undertook his own education at the British
Museum and consequently became keenly interested in cultural
subjects. Thus his prolific output included music, art and theatre
reviews, which were collected into several volumes such as Music in
London 1890-1894 (3 vols, 1931); Pen Portraits and Reviews (1931);
and Our Theatres in the Nineties (3 vols, 1931). He also wrote five
novels and some shorter fiction, including The Black Girl in Search
of God and Some Lesser Tales and Cashel Byron's Profession, both
published in Penguin's Bernard Shaw Library.
He conducted a strong attack on the London theatre and was closely
associated with the intellectual revival of British theatre. His
plays fall into several categories- 'Plays Pleasant'; 'Plays
Unpleasant'; comedies; chronicle-plays; 'metabiological Pentateuch'
(Back to Methuselah, a series of plays); and 'political
extravaganzas'. Bernard Shaw died in 1950.
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