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George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was an Irish writer. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925.
His best known works are his plays, some of which were made into movies. He wrote many plays about political problems, and those polemic plays sometimes gave him enemies. For example, he wrote a play about prostitution, and another about women's rights.
His play Saint Joan was made into a movie in 1957.
His play Pygmalion was made into a movie twice. The first Pygmalion movie won him an Academy Award for the best adapted screenplay, 1938. Later, the play was also made into a musical play called My Fair Lady. The movie based on that musical won 8 Academy Awards in 1964.
Shaw was the first person to win both a Nobel Prize and an Academy Award.[1]
Shaw also wrote musical criticism using the pseudonym (made-up name) Corno di Bassetto (which means: Basset horn).
In 1962, his play Androcles and the Lion was printed in a two-language version. On one side of the book, the text is written using regular English. On th
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Five things to know about George Bernard Shaw
3. Shaw credited the National Gallery of Ireland with giving him "much of the only real education I ever got as a boy in Eire."
Shaw had an irregular and inconsistent education, and moved schools frequently. Between 1865 and 1871, he attended three different schools. He spent many hours as a child and a young man wandering around the rooms of the National Gallery of Ireland exploring the collection. As a way of thanking the Gallery for being what he referred to as "the cherished asylum of my boyhood", Shaw bequeathed one third of his posthumous royalties to the Gallery, an incredibly generous gesture which has made a huge difference to the Gallery over the past 70 years.
The education in artistic style and art history that he received through these visits helped Shaw in his later work as an art critic, and the influence of this interest in art can also be seen in his plays. As Fintan O’Toole points out in his 2017 book Judging Shaw: “His first ambition was to be another Michelang
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George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856–1950)
"Bernard Shaw" redirects here. For other uses, see Bernard Shaw (disambiguation).
George Bernard Shaw | |
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Shaw in 1911 | |
| Born | (1856-07-26)26 July 1856 Portobello, Dublin, Ireland |
| Died | 2 November 1950(1950-11-02) (aged 94) Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire, England |
| Resting place | Shaw's Corner, Ayot St Lawrence |
| Pen name | Bernard Shaw |
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| Citizenship | United Kingdom (1856–1950) Ireland (dual citizenship, 1934–1950) |
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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
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