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George Bernard Shaw was at the height of his creative powers as a dramatist and already a major figure in political debate and activism in London and....

Shaw received the Nobel Prize for Literature in after the success of his play Saint Joan, and the Academy Award for Best Screenplay for Pygmalion in

Dramabook edition of Chesterton's examination of Shaw as an Irishman, Puritan, progressive, critic, dramatist, and philosopher.

George Bernard Shaw was at the height of his creative powers as a dramatist and already a major figure in political debate and activism in London and.

Playwright, wit, socialist, polemicist, vegetarian, and irresistible charmer, Bernard Shaw was the most controversial literary figure of his age, the scourge of.

George Bernard Shaw was Ireland's second recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature which he received in He is perhaps best remembered.

George Bernard Shaw

Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (–)

"Bernard Shaw" redirects here. For other uses, see Bernard Shaw (disambiguation).

George Bernard Shaw
Shaw in
Born	()26 July Portobello, Dublin, Ireland
Died	2 November () (aged&#;94) Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire, England
Resting place	Shaw's Corner, Ayot St Lawrence
Pen name	Bernard Shaw
Occupation
Citizenship	United Kingdom (–) Ireland (dual citizenship, –)
Spouse

George Bernard Shaw (26 July – 2 November ), 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 s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (), Pygmalion () and Saint Joan ().

With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation,