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George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

Born 26 July 1856

Dublin,Ireland

Died 2 November 1950 (aged 94)

Ayot St Lawrence,Hertfordshire,England

Occupation Playwright, critic, political activist

Nationality Irish

Notable

award(s)

Nobel Prize in Literature

1925

Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay

1938Pygmal ion

Notable

award(s)

Nobel Prize in Literature

1925

Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay

1938Pygmal ion

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Autobiography Of George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 2 November 1950) was anIrishplaywright and

a co-founder of theLondon School of Economics.Although his first profitable writing

wasmusic andliterary criticism,in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate

pieces ofjournalism,his main talent was fordrama,and he wrote more than 60 plays.

Nearly all his writings address prevailing social problems, but have a vein of comedywhich makes their stark themes more palatable. Shaw examined education, marriage,

religion, government, health care, and class privilege.

Early years and family

George Bernard Shaw was born in Synge Street, Dublin, on 26 July 1856 to

George Carr Shaw (181485), an unsuccessful grain merchant and sometime civil

servant, and Lucinda Elizabeth Shaw, ne Gurley (1830

1913), a professional

singer. He had two sisters, Lucinda Frances (18531920), a singer of musical

comedy and light opera, and Eli nor Agnes (185576).

Education

Shaw briefly attended theWesley College, Dublin,a grammar school operated by

theMethodist Church in Ireland,before moving to a private school

nearDalkey and then transferring to Dublin's Central Model School. He ended his

formal education at the Dublin English Scientific and Commercial Day School.

Contributions

Shaw's plays were first performed in the 1890s. By the end of the decade he

was an established playwright. He wrote sixty-three plays and his output as

novelist, critic, pamphleteer, essayist and private correspondent was

prodigious. He is known to have written more than 250,000 letters. Along

withFabian Society membersSidney andBeatrice Webb andGraham Wallis,

Shaw founded theLondon School of Economics and Political Science in

1895 with funding provided by private philanthropy, including a bequest of

20,000 from Henry Hunt Hutchinson to the Fabian Society. One of the

libraries at the LSE is named in Shaw's honor; it contains collections of his

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papers and photographs.[14]

Shaw helped to found the left-wing

magazineNew Statesman in 1913 with the Webs and other prominent

members of the Fabian Society.[1

Plays

The texts of plays by Shaw mentioned in this section, with the dates when

they were written and first performed can be found in Complete Plays and

Prefaces. Shaw began working on his first play destined for

production,Widowers' Houses,in 1885 in collaboration with criticWilliam

Archer,who supplied the structure. Archer decided that Shaw could not write

a play, so the project was abandoned. Years later, Shaw tried again and, in

1892, completed the play without collaboration. Widowers' Houses, a

scathing attack on slumlords, was first performed at London's Royalty

Theatre on 9 December 1892. Shaw would later call it one of his worst

works, but he had found his medium. His first significant financial success as

a playwright came fromRichard Mansfield's American production ofThe

Devil's Disciple(1897). He went on to write 63 plays, most of them full-

length.

DEATH

He Died On 2 November in 1950 (Aged 94).

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