BERNARD SHAW (1856-1950), the acclaimed dramatist, critic and social reformer, was born in Dublin where he grew up in an atmosphere of genteel poverty. He attended four schools and was tutored by a clerical uncle, but left his formal schooling behind him at the age of 15. He developed a wide knowledge of music, art and literature under the influence of his mother, a singer and vocal music teacher, and as a result of his visits to the National Gallery of Ireland. In 1876 he moved to London, where he spent his afternoons in the British Museum, and his evenings pursuing his informal education in the form of lectures and debates. Bernard Shaw declared himself a socialist in 1882 and joined the Fabian Society in 1884; soon he distinguished himself as a fluent and effective public speaker and an incisive and irreverent critic of music, art and drama.

Shaws first play, Widowers Houses, was produced privately in 1892 for the members of a progressive theatre club called the Independent Theatre Society. It was followed by The Philanderer and Mrs Warrens Profession. Published as Plays Unpleasant (1898), these Bernard Shaw plays reflect Shaws admiration for the new drama of Ibsen. More palatable, though still rich with challenges to conventional middle-class values, were his Plays Pleasant (1898) which included Arms and The Man, Candida, The Man of Destiny and You Never Can Tell. In 1897 Shaw attained his first commercial success with the American premiere of The Devils Disciple, which enabled him to quit his job as a drama critic and to make his living solely as a playwright. In 1898 he married Charlotte Payne-Townshend, an Irish heiress whom he had met through his Fabian friends Beatrice and Sidney Webb.

Bernard Shaws plays first attained popularity in London through a famous repertory experiment at the Royal Court Theatre from 1904 to 1907. Among his plays presented there were the premieres of John Bulls Other Island (1904), Man and Superman (1905), Major Barbara (1905) and The Doctors Dilemma (1906), the latter two of which were performed at The Shaw Festival in Niagara on the Lake in 2010. Pygmalion, by Bernard Shaw, by far his most popular work, was first performed in 1913. During World War I, Shaws anti-war pamphlets and speeches made him very unpopular as a public figure. In Heartbreak House (performed 1920) he exposed the spiritual bankruptcy of the generation responsible for the carnage. Next came Back to Methuselah (1922) and Saint Joan (1923), acclaim for which led to his receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature for 1925. Shaw continued to write plays and essays until his death in 1950 at the age of 94.

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Theatre Night (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode, 1989) (play - 1 episode, 1987) 1982 Guiding Light (TV Series) (certain characters created by - 1 episode) 1982/II Candida (TV Movie) (play) Estudio 1 (TV Series) (1 episode, 1982) (play - 6 episodes, 1970 - 1980) 1977 Galateya (TV Movie) (play "Pygmalion") 1972 Stage 2 (TV Series) (play - 1 episode) Teatterituokio (TV Series) (play "Village Wooing" - 3 episodes, 1966) (play "O'Flaherty VC" - 1 episode, 1967) (play "Man of Destiny" - 1 episode, 1963) 1966-1967 Conflict (TV Series) (written by - 3 episodes) ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) (1 episode, 1958) (writer - 3 episodes, 1957 - 1966) (original play - 2 episodes, 1958 - 1962) (play "Man and Superman" - 1 episode, 1962) (story - 1 episode, 1962) (play - 1 episode, 1956) 1966 Heiraten (TV Movie) (play "Getting Married") 1964 Festival (TV Series) (Play - 1 episode) 1964 Candida (TV Movie) (play - as Bernard Shaw) 1963 Festival (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) 1963 Platea (TV Series) (1 episode) 1960 Startime (TV Series) (play - 1 episode) 1957 Helden (TV Movie) (play "Arms and the Man") Matinee Theatre (TV Series) (novel - 1 episode, 1957) (play - 1 episode, 1956) Omnibus (TV Series) (play - 2 episodes, 1953 - 1955) (story - 1 episode, 1956) (play "Arms and the Man" - 1 episode, 1953) 1955 Folio (TV Series) (play - 1 episode) 1946 Saint Joan (TV Movie) (play - as G. Bernard Shaw) 1941 Major Barbara (original play) / (scenario and dialogue) / (screenplay) 1939 Geneva (TV Movie) (play - as Bernard Shaw) 1939 Candida (TV Movie) (play - as G. Bernard Shaw) 1938 Pygmalion (play - as Bernard Shaw) / (scenario and dialogue - as Bernard Shaw)

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G. Bernard Shaw (he hated the "George" and never used it, either personally or professionally) was born in 1856 in Dublin, in a lower-middle class family of Scottish-Protestant ancestry. His father was a failed corn-merchant, with a drinking problem and a squint (which Oscar Wilde's father, a leading Dublin surgeon, tried unsuccessfully to correct); his mother was a professional singer, the sole disciple of Vandeleur Lee, a voice teacher claiming to have a unique and original approach to singing.

When Shaw was just short of his sixteenth birthday, his mother left her husband and son and moved with Vandeleur Lee to London, where the two set up a household, along with Shaw's older sister Lucy (who later became a successful music hall singer). Shaw remained in Dublin with his father, completing his schooling (which he hated passionately), and working as a clerk for an estate office (which he hated just as much as school).

It may not be a accidental, then, that Shaw's plays, including Misalliance, are filled with problematic parent-child relationships: with children who are brought up in isolation from their parents; with foundlings, orphans, and adopted heirs; and with parents who wrongly presume that they are entitled to their children's obedience and affection.

In 1876, Shaw left Dublin and his father and moved to London, moving in with his mother's menage. There he lived off of his mother and sister while pursuing a career in journalism and writing. The first medium he tried as a creative writer was prose, completing five novels (the first one appropriately titled Immaturity) before any of them were published. He read voraciously, in public libraries and in the British Museum reading room. And he became involved in progressive politics. Standing on soapboxes, at Speaker's Corner in Hyde Park and at socialist rallies, he learned to overcome his stagefright and his stammer. And, to hold the attention of the crowd, he developed an energetic and aggressive speaking style that is evident in all of his writing.

With Beatrice and Sidney Webb, Shaw founded the Fabian Society, a socialist political organization dedicated to transforming Britain into a socialist state, not by revolution but by systematic progressive legislation, bolstered by persuasion and mass education. The Fabian society would later be instrumental in founding the London School of Economics and the Labour Party. Shaw lectured for the Fabian Society, and wrote pamphlets on the progressive arts, including The Perfect Wagnerite, an interpretation of Richard Wagner's Ring cycle, and The Quintessence of Ibsenism, based on a series of lectures about the progressive Norwegian playwright, Henrik Ibsen. Meanwhile, as a journalist, Shaw worked as an art critic, then as a music critic (writing under the pseudonym "Corno di Bassetto"), and finally, from 1895 to 1898, as Theatre Critic for the Saturday Review, where his reviews appeared over the infamous initials "GBS."

In 1891, at the invitation of J.T. Grein, a merchant, theatre critic, and director of a progressive private new-play society, The Independent Theatre, Shaw wrote his first play, Widower's Houses. For the next twelve years, he wrote close to a dozen plays, though he generally failed to persuade the managers of the London Theatres to produce them. A few were produced abroad; one (Arms and the Man) was produced under the auspices of an experimental management; one (Mrs Warren's Profession) was censored by the Lord Chamberlain's Examiner of Plays (the civil servant who, from 1737 until 1967, was empowered with the prior censorship of all spoken drama in England); and several were presented in single performances by private societies.

In 1898, after a serious illness, Shaw resigned as theatre critic, and moved out of his mother's house (where he was still living) to marry Charlotte Payne-Townsend, an Irish woman of independent means. Their marriage (quite possibly sexually unconsummated) lasted until Charlotte's death in 1943.

In 1904, Harley Granville Barker, an actor, director and playwright twenty years younger than Shaw who had appeared in a private theatre society's production of Shaw's Candida, took over the management of the Court Theatre on Sloane Square in Chelsea (outside of the "Theatreland" of the fashionable West End) and set up it up as an experimental theatre specializing in new and progressive drama. Over the next three seasons, Barker produced ten plays by Shaw (with Barker officially listed as director, and with Shaw actually directing his own plays), and Shaw began writing new plays with Barker's management specifically in mind. Over the next ten years, all but one of Shaw's plays (Pygmalion in 1914) was produced either by Barker or by Barker's friends and colleagues in the other experimental theater managements around England. With royalties from his plays, Shaw, who had become financially independent on marrying, now became quite wealthy. Throughout the decade, he remained active in the Fabian Society, in city government (he served as vestryman for the London borough of St. Pancras), and on committees dedicated to ending dramatic censorship, and to establishing a subsidized National Theatre.

The outbreak of war in 1914 changed Shaw's life. For Shaw, the war represented the bankruptcy of the capitalist system, the last desperate gasps of the nineteenth-century empires, and a tragic waste of young lives, all under the guise of patriotism. He expressed his opinions in a series of newspaper articles under the title Common Sense About the War. These articles proved to be a disaster for Shaw's public stature: he was treated as an outcast in his adopted country, and there was even talk of his being tried for treason. His dramatic output ground to a halt, and he succeeded in writing only one major play during the war years, Heartbreak House, into which he projected his bitterness and despair about British politics and society.

After the war, Shaw found his dramatic voice again and rebuilt his reputation, first with a series of five plays about "creative evolution," Back to Methuselah, and then, in 1923, with Saint Joan. In 1925 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. (Not needing the money, he donated the cash award towards an English edition of the Swedish playwright August Strindberg, who had never been recognized with a Nobel prize by the Swedish Academy). Shaw's plays were regularly produced and revived in London. Several theatre companies in the United States began producing his plays, old and new, on a regular basis (most notably the Theatre Guild in New York, and the Hedgerow Theatre, in Rose Valley, PA, which became internationally known for its advocacy of the plays of Shaw and the Irish playwright Sean O'Casey). In the late 1920s, a Shaw festival was established in England (in a town, coincidentally, named Malvern).

Shaw lived the rest of his life as an international celebrity, travelling the world, continually involved in local and international politics. (He visited the Soviet Union at the invitation of Stalin; and he came briefly to the United States at the invitation of William Randolph Hearst, stepping on shore only twice, for a lecture at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, and for lunch at Hearst's castle in San Simeon in California). And he continued to write thousands of letters and over a dozen more plays.

In 1950, Shaw fell off a ladder while trimming a tree on his property at Ayot St. Lawrence in Hertfordshire, outside of London, and died a few days later of complications from the injury, at age 94. He had been at work on yet another play (Why She Would Not). In his will, he left a large part of his estate to a project to revamp the English alphabet. (Only one volume was published with the new "Shaw Alphabet": a parallel text edition of Shaw's Androcles and the Lion). After that project failed, the estate was divided among the other beneficiaries in his will: the National Gallery of Ireland, the British Museum, and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Royalties from Shaw's plays (and from the musical My Fair Lady, based on Shaw's Pygmalion) have helped to balance the budgets of these institutions ever since.

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George Bernard Shaw (Dubln, 26 de julio de 1856 Ayot St. Lawrence, Hertfordshire, 2 de noviembre de 1950) fue un escritor irlands, ganador del Premio Nobel de literatura en 1925 y del scar en 1938.

Shaw naci en Dubln el 26 de julio de 1856, en una familia pobre y protestante. Se educ en el Wesley College en Dubln y emigr a Londres en 1870, para comenzar su carrera literaria. All, escribi cinco novelas que fueron rechazadas por los editores. Comenz a escribir una columna de crtica musical en el peridico Star. Mientras tanto, comenz a involucrarse en la poltica y sirvi como concejal en el distrito de St. Pancras a partir de 1897. Fue un socialista notable, destacado miembro de la Sociedad Fabiana, que buscaba la transformacin de la sociedad a travs de mtodos no revolucionarios.

El trabajo periodstico ejercido durante sus primeros aos comprenda desde la crtica literaria y artstica hasta colaboraciones sobre temas musicales que firm, entre 1888 y 1890, con el seudnimo de Corno di Bassetto.

Shaw se volvi vegetariano[1] cuando tena veinticinco aos, despus de una lectura de H. F. Lester.[2] En 1901, rememorando la experiencia, dijo: Fui canbal durante veinticinco aos. Por el resto de tiempo, he sido vegetariano.[3] Como convencido vegetariano, fue un firme anti-viviseccionista y antagonista de deportes crueles por el resto de su vida. La inmoralidad de comer animales fue una de las causas ms cercanas a su corazn y es un tpico frecuente en sus obras y prefacios. Su posicin, mantenida sucintamente, fue: Un hombre de mi intensidad espiritual no come cadveres.[4]

En 1895, Shaw se convirti en el crtico teatral del peridico Saturday Review, lo cual fue el primer paso hacia la carrera de dramaturgo. En 1898, Shaw se cas con Charlotte Payne-Townshend. Candida, su primera obra exitosa, se estren ese mismo ao. La siguieron The Devil's Disciple (1897), Arms and the Man (1898), Mrs. Warren's Profession (1898), Captain Brassbound's Conversion (1900), Man and Superman (1903), Caesar and Cleopatra (1901), Major Barbara (1905), Androcles and the Lion (1912) y Pigmalin (1913), por la que en 1938 obtuvo el scar al mejor guion adaptado.

Despus de la Primera Guerra Mundial produjo varias obras, incluyendo Heartbreak House (1919) y Saint Joan (1923). Una de las caractersticas de las obras de teatro de Shaw es la larga introduccin que las acompaa. En estos ensayos introductorios, Shaw daba su opinin normalmente controvertida sobre los temas que eran tratados en la obra. Algunos de estos ensayos son inclusive ms extensos que la obra misma.

La turbulencia poltica en Irlanda no le fue indiferente. Acerca del levantamiento de Pascua, Shaw abog en contra de la ejecucin de los lderes rebeldes, argumentando que todos los hogares que se destruyeron podan ser siempre reconstruidos. Shaw fue amigo personal del lder Michael Collins, a quien invit a cenar a su casa cuando Collins negociaba el tratado anglo-irlands con David Lloyd George en Londres.

Shaw se preocup por las incoherencias en la escritura de la lengua inglesa, a tal grado de que en su testamento destin una parte de sus bienes a la creacin de un nuevo alfabeto fontico para el ingls. Tal proyecto nunca pudo comenzar, pues los bienes monetarios que Shaw dej no eran suficientes. Sin embargo, las regalas obtenidas por los derechos de Pigmalin y My Fair Lady (obra musical basada en la obra de Shaw) fueron significativas. Los herederos desarrollaron entonces el denominado alfabeto Shaviano.

Shaw tuvo una larga amistad con el escritor britnico Gilbert Keith Chesterton y con el compositor Sir Edward Elgar. Shaw se convirti en la primera persona en haber ganado durante su vida un Nobel (literatura) y un Oscar (en la categora de mejor guion, por Pigmalin), en 1938.

Desde 1906 hasta su muerte en 1950, Shaw vivi en Shaw's Corner, en el poblado de Ayot St. Lawrence, Hertfordshire. La casa se encuentra abierta al pblico visitante. El Teatro Shaw en Londres se abri nuevamente en 1971, en su honor.

A raz del estreno de la obra "Comandant Barbara", una vitrilica stira al Ejrcito de Salvacin Ingls, las relaciones entre Shaw y Churchill no eran precisamente buenas. El dramaturgo escribi al poltico a propsito del estreno de la obra. "Venga usted con un amigo, si es que lo tiene", a lo que Churchill contest "Me es imposible asistir, acudir a la segunda presentacin, si es que la hay". Esta ancdota ha sido repetida hasta la saciedad y muestra el ingenio de dos personajes de la historia.

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George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was born in Dublin, the son of a civil servant. His education was irregular, due to his dislike of any organized training. After working in an estate agent's office for a while he moved to London as a young man (1876), where he established himself as a leading music and theatre critic in the eighties and nineties and became a prominent member of the Fabian Society, for which he composed many pamphlets. He began his literary career as a novelist; as a fervent advocate of the new theatre of Ibsen (The Quintessence of Ibsenism, 1891) he decided to write plays in order to illustrate his criticism of the English stage. His earliest dramas were called appropriately Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant (1898). Among these, Widower's Houses and Mrs. Warren's Profession savagely attack social hypocrisy, while in plays such as Arms and the Man and The Man of Destiny the criticism is less fierce. Shaw's radical rationalism, his utter disregard of conventions, his keen dialectic interest and verbal wit often turn the stage into a forum of ideas, and nowhere more openly than in the famous discourses on the Life Force, Don Juan in Hell, the third act of the dramatization of woman's love chase of man, Man and Superman (1903).

In the plays of his later period discussion sometimes drowns the drama, in Back to Methuselah (1921), although in the same period he worked on his masterpiece Saint Joan (1923), in which he rewrites the well-known story of the French maiden and extends it from the Middle Ages to the present.

Other important plays by Shaw are Caesar and Cleopatra (1901), a historical play filled with allusions to modern times, and Androcles and the Lion (1912), in which he exercised a kind of retrospective history and from modern movements drew deductions for the Christian era. In Major Barbara (1905), one of Shaw's most successful discussion plays, the audience's attention is held by the power of the witty argumentation that man can achieve aesthetic salvation only through political activity, not as an individual. The Doctor's Dilemma (1906), facetiously classified as a tragedy by Shaw, is really a comedy the humour of which is directed at the medical profession. Candida (1898), with social attitudes toward sex relations as objects of his satire, and Pygmalion (1912), a witty study of phonetics as well as a clever treatment of middle-class morality and class distinction, proved some of Shaw's greatest successes on the stage. It is a combination of the dramatic, the comic, and the social corrective that gives Shaw's comedies their special flavour.

Shaw's complete works appeared in thirty-six volumes between 1930 and 1950, the year of his death.

From Nobel Lectures, Literature 1901-1967, Editor Horst Frenz, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1969

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Read books online at our other site: The Literature Page - Read the works of George Bernard Shaw online at The Literature Page A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether he be painter or ploughman. George Bernard Shaw A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic. George Bernard Shaw A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. George Bernard Shaw A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. George Bernard Shaw A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth. George Bernard Shaw Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them. George Bernard Shaw An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country. George Bernard Shaw Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men. George Bernard Shaw Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. George Bernard Shaw England and America are two countries separated by a common language. George Bernard Shaw Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough. George Bernard Shaw Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. George Bernard Shaw Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich--something for nothing. George Bernard Shaw Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. George Bernard Shaw Hell is full of musical amateurs. George Bernard Shaw I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize. George Bernard Shaw I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. George Bernard Shaw If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. George Bernard Shaw If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. George Bernard Shaw If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved. George Bernard Shaw

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George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright, socialist, and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama. Over the course of his life he wrote more than 60 plays. Nearly all his plays address prevailing social problems, but each also includes a vein of comedy that makes their stark themes more palatable. In these works Shaw examined education, marriage, religion, government, health care, and class privilege.

An ardent socialist, Shaw was angered by what he perceived to be the exploitation of the working class. He wrote many brochures and speeches for the Fabian Societ

An ardent socialist, Shaw was angered by what he perceived to be the exploitation of the working class. He wrote many brochures and speeches for the Fabian Society. He became an accomplished orator in the furtherance of its causes, which included gaining equal rights for men and women, alleviating abuses of the working class, rescinding private ownership of productive land, and promoting healthy lifestyles. For a short time he was active in local politics, serving on the London County Council.

In 1898, Shaw married Charlotte Payne-Townshend, a fellow Fabian, whom he survived. They settled in Ayot St. Lawrence in a house now called Shaw's Corner.

He is the only person to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize for Literature (1925) and an Oscar (1938). The former for his contributions to literature and the latter for his work on the film "Pygmalion" (adaptation of his play of the same name). Shaw wanted to refuse his Nobel Prize outright, as he had no desire for public honours, but he accepted it at his wife's behest. She considered it a tribute to Ireland. He did reject the monetary award, requesting it be used to finance translation of Swedish books to English.

Shaw died at Shaw's Corner, aged 94, from chronic health problems exacerbated by injuries incurred by falling.

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As far as pubs go in Dublin, this is hands down my favourite. Far from the typical Irish pub experience, this place is truly one of a kind. It feels like the type of place that in any other city in the world would be overrun and packed to the brim with hipsters who'd have appropriated the place as their own. At the Bernard Shaw however, it manages to capture the exact vibe - a funky interior decor, eclectic & artsy and yet somehow not being pretentious at the same time.

The place is always busy regardless of when you go here, but somehow never too busy and you always get served pretty fast. Their selection of beers is solid and there are cocktails on offer as well and there is often a 2-4-1 deal going on with 2 cocktails for 10 Euro - bargain!

The magic of this place though happens as soon as you step out the back. It is the one place in Dublin where no matter the season, out the back in the yard is where you need to be. The communal seating out the back is great, it's always heated and despite the smokers if you're a non-smoker like me you don't feel the smoke at all and can still relax. With the same street art type layout as you get indoors, this is the type of place you could really just sit and chill with your friends for hours on end, play some pool or just chat with some randoms in your surrounds.

Now if you're hungry, then comes the icing on the cake: order your pizza off the counter on the big blue bus. Yes, you read that right. The big blue bus, a double decker turned hang out spot where you order and have your pizza prepared (and with pizzas starting from 7 Euro, the prices are a real win too), and you can head upstairs, sit on the bus, drink your pint and eat your pizza in relative cosy isolation as you look out at the buzz in the courtyard below. The bus too is decorated in a sort of vintage style with dimmed lamps, cushions and the likes, it's a great spot to eat, drink and chat with mates.

Off the main tourist trail and yet still close to the centre of town this place is always a favourite. Great for an afternoon chillout or an evening out with friends alike. And with brunches in the morning and of late Saturday afternoon yoga sessions out the back you can't really go wrong here. That's why I keep coming back!

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