George Bernard Shaw
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 George Bernard Shaw facts

• He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1912), 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, 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