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George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

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G. B. Shaw was born in Dublin, Ireland, in a poor middle-class family.

When he was twenty, Shaw came to London, a tall, thin young man with blue eyes and sandy hair. At that time his favorite author was Shelley, atheist and revolutionary. In London he became a journalist.

Between 1879 and 1883 he wrote five long novels—“heavy parcels which were always coming back to me from some publisher”. Shaw gave up writing novels.

He first became known for his articles on fine art exhibitions, theatrical performances, concerts, published in newspapers and magazines.

Shaw wanted to make his ideas clear to other people. So he began writing plays through which he could popularize his ideas best.

Shaw was a reformer of the theater and the road which led him to success was a difficult one. It was only in 1904 that one of Shaw’s plays was first performed in the London West End. In fact, he was famous abroad long before he was famous in England.

The first performance of his play “Widower’s Houses” (in 1892) was quite a sensation. He was attacked both by the public and the critics, who called him cynical. But in spite of this, Shaw attacked injustice and hypocrisy all his life with particular force. Shaw used the stage to criticize the vices of capitalism.

In 1898 Shaw published some of his plays under the title of “Unpleasant Plays”. It is quite clear for whom these plays were unpleasant.

Shaw’s plays are discussion plays. They are full of witty paradoxes and brilliant dialogues. Many of Shaw’s plays include long prefaces in which Shaw expresses his own point of view on this or that problem. So his prefaces are almost as important as the plays themselves.

Shaw was greatly interested in Russian culture. He highly appreciated and admired L. N. Tolstoy, with whom he corresponded, and also Chekhov and Gorky. But Shaw was interested not only in the literature of Russia. To the end of his days he remained a devoted friend of the Soviet people and took a lively interest in the life of the first Socialist state in the world.

Shaw went on working almost to the time of his death although he was 94 years old when he died. His mind remained clear and powerful to the end.

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