George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

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George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright, novelist and literary critic, socialist propagandist and journalist, winner of the 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature.

George Bernard was born into a poor noble family and, growing up, suffered greatly from that poverty. After a decade of failure on the literary field, Bernard became an active member of the Fabian Society, a middle-class socialist group founded in 1884, which sought the gradual transformation of English society.

He began working as a journalist and writing plays, which soon enough became popular. In The Man and the Superman, Shaw laid out his philosophy that humanity is the last stage of a purposeful and eternal evolutionary movement of "life force" toward ever higher forms of life. By far his most popular play is Pygmalion, a humane comedy about love and the English class system. But George Bernard Shaw was not only the best comic playwright of his time. Some of his stage works - Caesar and Cleopatra, The Man and Superman, Major Barbara, House of Broken Hearts, and St. Joan - are highly serious and refined in their prose.

Shaw was also a bold pamphleteer, a popular and widely read music and theater critic of his generation, a lecturer and essayist on politics, economics and sociology. In the course of his long and prolific life Bernard Shaw shaped the political, economic and social worldviews of several generations.

Date and place of birt:26 july 1856, Dublin, Ireland
Date and place of death:2 november 1950, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Period of activity: XIX, XX century
Specialization:Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Writer
Art style:Socialist realism

Creators Socialist realism

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Yevsey Yevseyevich Moiseyenko (1916 - 1988)
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Evgeny Ivanovich Gudin (1921 - 1991)
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Fatmir Hajiu (1927 - 2001)
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Serafima Petrovna Bogdanova (1925 - 2010)
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Anatolii Aleksandrovich Kiselev (1929 - 2017)
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