About George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright. Born in Dublin, he moved to London at the age of twenty and lived in England for the remainder of his life.
Although Shaw's first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, his talent was for drama, and during his career he authored more than sixty plays. Nearly all of his writings deal sternly with prevailing social problems, but are leavened by a vein of comedy to make their stark themes more palatable. Shaw examined education, marriage, religion, government, health care, and class privilege and found them all defective, but his ire was most aroused by the exploitation of the working class; his writings seldom fail to censure that abuse. An ardent socialist, Shaw wrote many brochures and speeches for the Fabian Society. He became an accomplished orator in the furtherance of its causes, which included gaining equal political rights for men and women, alleviating abuses of the working class, rescinding private ownership of productive land, and promoting healthful lifestyles.
Shaw married Charlotte Payne-Townshend, a fellow Fabian, whom he survived. They made their home in Ayot St. Lawrence in a house now called Shaw's Corner. Shaw died there, aged 94, from chronic problems exacerbated by injuries he incurred by falling.
Although Shaw's first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, his talent was for drama, and during his career he authored more than sixty plays. Nearly all of his writings deal sternly with prevailing social problems, but are leavened by a vein of comedy to make their stark themes more palatable. Shaw examined education, marriage, religion, government, health care, and class privilege and found them all defective, but his ire was most aroused by the exploitation of the working class; his writings seldom fail to censure that abuse. An ardent socialist, Shaw wrote many brochures and speeches for the Fabian Society. He became an accomplished orator in the furtherance of its causes, which included gaining equal political rights for men and women, alleviating abuses of the working class, rescinding private ownership of productive land, and promoting healthful lifestyles.
Shaw married Charlotte Payne-Townshend, a fellow Fabian, whom he survived. They made their home in Ayot St. Lawrence in a house now called Shaw's Corner. Shaw died there, aged 94, from chronic problems exacerbated by injuries he incurred by falling.
Collections
Plays Pleasant (1898)
Plays Unpleasant: Widowers' Houses / The Philanderer / Mrs Warren's Profession (1898)
Three Plays for Puritans: the Devil's Disciple, caesar And Cleopatra, captain Brassbound's Conversion (1901)
The Doctor's Dilemma, Getting Married, and the Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet (1928)
The Black Girl in Search of God (1946)
aka The Black Girl in Search of GodX
Four Plays: Candida, Caesar And Cleopatra, Pygmalion And Heartbreak House (1953)
Pygmalion and Three Other Plays (1960)
Pygmalion and My Fair Lady (1975)
Plays by George Bernard Shaw: Mrs Warren's Profession- Arms and the Man- Candida- Man and Superm (1979)
Plays of Shaw (1979)
Plays Extravagant: Too True to Be Good, Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles And the Millionairess (1981)
Bernard Shaw: Selected Plays (1981)
Three Plays: Major Barbara, Caesar and Cleopatra, the Doctor's Dilemma (1985)
Selected Short Plays (1988)
Heartbreak House and Misalliance (1995)
George Bernard Shaw: Selected Plays (1996)
Pygmalion: and Related Readings (1996)
Plays Political: apple Cart, on the Rocks, geneva (1999)
Mrs. Warren's Profession and Others (1999)
Man and Superman and Three Other Plays (2004)
Plays Unpleasant: Widowers' Houses / The Philanderer / Mrs Warren's Profession (1898)
Three Plays for Puritans: the Devil's Disciple, caesar And Cleopatra, captain Brassbound's Conversion (1901)
The Doctor's Dilemma, Getting Married, and the Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet (1928)
The Black Girl in Search of God (1946)
aka The Black Girl in Search of GodX
Four Plays: Candida, Caesar And Cleopatra, Pygmalion And Heartbreak House (1953)
Pygmalion and Three Other Plays (1960)
Pygmalion and My Fair Lady (1975)
Plays by George Bernard Shaw: Mrs Warren's Profession- Arms and the Man- Candida- Man and Superm (1979)
Plays of Shaw (1979)
Plays Extravagant: Too True to Be Good, Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles And the Millionairess (1981)
Bernard Shaw: Selected Plays (1981)
Three Plays: Major Barbara, Caesar and Cleopatra, the Doctor's Dilemma (1985)
Selected Short Plays (1988)
Heartbreak House and Misalliance (1995)
George Bernard Shaw: Selected Plays (1996)
Pygmalion: and Related Readings (1996)
Plays Political: apple Cart, on the Rocks, geneva (1999)
Mrs. Warren's Profession and Others (1999)
Man and Superman and Three Other Plays (2004)
Plays
Cashel Byron's Profession (1882)
An Unsocial Socialist (1883)
Arms and the Man (1894)
Candida (1897)
The Devil's Disciple (1897)
Man of Destiny (1897)
The Philanderer (1898)
You Never Can Tell (1899)
Captain Brassbound's Conversion (1900)
Caesar and Cleopatra (1901)
Mrs. Warren's Profession (1902)
John Bull's Other Island (1904)
Major Barbara (1905)
Man and Superman: A Comedy And a Philosophy (1905)
The Doctor's Dilemma (1906)
Getting Married (1908)
Misalliance (1910)
Androcles and the Lion: An Old Fable Renovated (1912)
Overruled (1912)
Pygmalion (1913)
Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner On English Themes (1920)
The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet (1920)
Back to Methuselah (1922)
Saint Joan (1923)
The Apple Cart (1929)
Nine Answers (1988)
Last Line of Defense (2000)
Annajanska: The Bolshevik Empress (2002)
An Unsocial Socialist (1883)
Arms and the Man (1894)
Candida (1897)
The Devil's Disciple (1897)
Man of Destiny (1897)
The Philanderer (1898)
You Never Can Tell (1899)
Captain Brassbound's Conversion (1900)
Caesar and Cleopatra (1901)
Mrs. Warren's Profession (1902)
John Bull's Other Island (1904)
Major Barbara (1905)
Man and Superman: A Comedy And a Philosophy (1905)
The Doctor's Dilemma (1906)
Getting Married (1908)
Misalliance (1910)
Androcles and the Lion: An Old Fable Renovated (1912)
Overruled (1912)
Pygmalion (1913)
Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner On English Themes (1920)
The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet (1920)
Back to Methuselah (1922)
Saint Joan (1923)
The Apple Cart (1929)
Nine Answers (1988)
Last Line of Defense (2000)
Annajanska: The Bolshevik Empress (2002)
Non fiction
The Quitessence Of Ibsenism and Related Writings (1891)
The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary On the Ring of the Niblungs (1898)
On Going to Church (1905)
Do We Agree?: A Debate Between G. K. Chesterton And Bernard Shaw, with Hilaire Belloc in the Chair (1928) (with Hilaire Belloc, G K Chesterton)
aka Do We Agree?: A Debate
The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism, Capitalism, Sovietism and Fascism (1928)
Major Critical Essays: The Quintessence of Ibsenism, the Perfect Wagnerite, the Sanity of Art (1932)
Music in London: Eighteen Ninety Through Eighteen Ninety-four (1932)
Prefaces by Bernard Shaw (1934)
Shaw on Shakespeare (1961)
On Language (1970)
Shaw and Ibsen: Bernard Shaw's the Quintessence of Ibsenism, And Related Writings (1980)
Shaw's Music: Complete Musical Criticism: 1876-90 (1981)
Bernard Shaw Collected Letters: 1874-1897 (1985)
Bernard Shaw Collected Letters: 1898-1910 (1985)
Bernard Shaw: Collected Letters (1985)
Dear Mr. Shaw: Correspondence of George Bernard Shaw (1987)
Collected Letters: 1926-50 (1988)
Selected Nondramatic Writings of Bernard Shaw (1990)
The Complete Prefaces: 1889-1913 v. 1 (1993)
The Sayings of George Bernard Shaw (1993)
Shaw on Music (1995)
Complete Prefaces: 1914-29 v. 2 (1995)
Not Bloody Likely: and Other Quotations from Bernard Shaw (1997)
Complete Prefaces: 1930-50 v. 3 (1997)
Shaw On Theatre: A Half Century of Advices (1998)
Shaw V. Chesterton (2000)
A Treatise on Parents and Children (2001)
Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell: Their Correspondence (2002)
Preface to Androcles and the Lion: On the Prospects of Christianity (2002)
The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary On the Ring of the Niblungs (1898)
On Going to Church (1905)
Do We Agree?: A Debate Between G. K. Chesterton And Bernard Shaw, with Hilaire Belloc in the Chair (1928) (with Hilaire Belloc, G K Chesterton)
aka Do We Agree?: A Debate
The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism, Capitalism, Sovietism and Fascism (1928)
Major Critical Essays: The Quintessence of Ibsenism, the Perfect Wagnerite, the Sanity of Art (1932)
Music in London: Eighteen Ninety Through Eighteen Ninety-four (1932)
Prefaces by Bernard Shaw (1934)
Shaw on Shakespeare (1961)
On Language (1970)
Shaw and Ibsen: Bernard Shaw's the Quintessence of Ibsenism, And Related Writings (1980)
Shaw's Music: Complete Musical Criticism: 1876-90 (1981)
Bernard Shaw Collected Letters: 1874-1897 (1985)
Bernard Shaw Collected Letters: 1898-1910 (1985)
Bernard Shaw: Collected Letters (1985)
Dear Mr. Shaw: Correspondence of George Bernard Shaw (1987)
Collected Letters: 1926-50 (1988)
Selected Nondramatic Writings of Bernard Shaw (1990)
The Complete Prefaces: 1889-1913 v. 1 (1993)
The Sayings of George Bernard Shaw (1993)
Shaw on Music (1995)
Complete Prefaces: 1914-29 v. 2 (1995)
Not Bloody Likely: and Other Quotations from Bernard Shaw (1997)
Complete Prefaces: 1930-50 v. 3 (1997)
Shaw On Theatre: A Half Century of Advices (1998)
Shaw V. Chesterton (2000)
A Treatise on Parents and Children (2001)
Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell: Their Correspondence (2002)
Preface to Androcles and the Lion: On the Prospects of Christianity (2002)
Anthologies containing stories by George Bernard Shaw
Short stories
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Awards
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Books about George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw (1909) by G K Chesterton
Bernard Shaw (1988) by Michael Holroyd
GBS Vs. GKC (2002) by Unknown
Bernard Shaw (1988) by Michael Holroyd
GBS Vs. GKC (2002) by Unknown
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