George Bernard Shaw
- B. shaw was born in Dublin of Irish parents but spent most of his life in London and the village of Ayot St. Lawrence, Hertfordshire, where he movedwith his wealthy Irish wife Charlotte soon after their marriage in 1898. He lived there till his death.
Shaw is often considered a dramatist second only to William Shakespeare and the most trenchant pamphleteer since Swift. He criticises the false morals of the society. But he also was a brilliant music, art and drama critic and his essays on politics, economics and sociology together with his anti-war speeches during World War I, made him well-known. As a socialist, he became in 1884 a founder member of the Fabian Society – a left wing group that aimed at the transformation of English intellectual and political life. He also wanted to transform English spelling by devising a new English alphabet on phoetic principles. In 1925 G. B. Shaw won the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died in 1950.
His well-known Pygmalionwas adapted as a musical My Fair Lady and then it became a famous film. His other plays are: Widower´s Houses, Arms and the Man, Caesar and Cleopatra, Man and Superman, Getting Married, Heartbrake House, On The Rocks or Why She Would Not.