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George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw.
George Bernard Shaw.

Activity (s) writer, playwright, music critic
Birth 26 July 1856
Deaths 2 November 1950 (94 years)
Honors Nobel Prize for Literature (1925)
Major works

George Bernard Shaw ( 26 July 1856 in Dublin - 2 November 1950 at Ayot St. Lawrence) is a music critic and playwright Irish , essayist, screenwriter, and author of famous plays. Irish acerbic and provocative, pacifist and nonconformist, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925.

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Born in Dublin in a small noble family Protestant on 26 July 1856 , George Bernard Shaw takes on a literary and musical scope. At the age of twenty, he moved to London, his mother separated from her father an alcoholic , and is interested in the political economy and socialism. Reading Karl Marx is a revelation for him. Besides his activity as a political activist, he became art critic and music and drama critic and wrote many essays.

After trying in vain to publish five novels, George Bernard Shaw looks from 1892 at the theater for which he wrote more than fifty pieces. He developed a style where his humorous wit, better development, made him an undisputed master of the English theater. In his early plays, very committed but rarely played, George Bernard Shaw addresses the social abuses. The play Hero and Soldier, produced in 1894 to U.S. marks the beginning of his international fame.

George Bernard Shaw attended the Fabian Society , where he met Charlotte Payne Townshend whom he married in 1898. Suffering from disease and overwork, he reduced his political activity. His success and his marriage, the same year put an end to his bohemian lifestyle. Without ever ceasing to be interested in politics and social issues, he devoted himself entirely to his works now, parts of ideas, where he ridicules social conformity. His talent and fame are rewarded by the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925. In 1939 he won an Oscar for the screenplay adapted from his play Pygmalion to the cinema, but it never felt this great honor: it is said that with him, he used the statue to block the doors Notes on his work and ideas

The comedy of its parts is consistent with the logical rigor of the ideas he develops. His prefaces are sometimes large real test when he develops his favorite themes (art, pacifism , political ideas, philosophical and religious) and proposes solutions to remedy the evils he denounced in his plays. His work is a revolutionary and a reformer to destroy capitalism in order to replace a socialist enlightened and higher. Pygmalion (1913) and Saint Joan (1923), his mature works are often regarded as its leaders -d work. Having traveled to the Soviet Union , he denies the through and is an ardent proponent of Stalinism. In the early 1930s , historian Gaetano Salvemini , a refugee in England, led a harsh polemic against him because of his positions philofascistes.

Provocative and unconventional, George Bernard Shaw denounced the Puritanism narrow religious hierarchy and hypocrisy of the conventions of religion (Devil's Disciple, 1896 and The True Blanco Posnet, 1909). In Androcles and the Lion (1912), he studied the religious and spiritual rights. Inspired by the teachings of Charles Darwin , he bases his philosophy on evolution, yet mysterious force, which he calls "life force" imperfect power that seeks to achieve perfection (preface Going back to Methuselah, 1920 ). He vigorously opposed the personification of all divinity.

His letters inspired a play that was named Dear Liar (Dear Liar)

Bibliography

  • Money has no smell (1892)
  • Mrs. Warren's Profession (1893)
  • The man loved by women (1893)
  • The Hero and the Soldier (1894)
  • Candida (1894)
  • The Man of Destiny (1896)
  • Devil's Disciple (1896)
  • Caesar and Cleopatra (1898)
  • Man and Superman (1903)
  • The Commander Barbara (1905)
  • The Real Blanco Posnet (1909)
  • Androcles and the Lion (1912)
  • Pygmalion (1912)
  • Heartbreak House (1919)
  • Going back to Methuselah (1920)
  • Saint Joan (1924, 1939)
  • Guide to the intelligent woman in the presence of socialism and capitalism (1928)
  • The Adventures of a young black woman in search of God (1932)
  • The Apple Cart (1929)
  • Too true to be good (1931)
  • Truth is good to say (1932)
  • The Idiot unforeseen Islands (1934)
  • The Billionaire (1934)
  • The Genuine Islam (1936)
  • Writings on music , Paris, Robert Laffont, 1994, coll. Mouthpieces, ( ISBN 2-221-06799-1 )

Filmography

as screenwriter

as an actor

as director

See also

References

  1. IMDB.com, Section "stories" page on George Bernard Shaw

See also


Preceded by
Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
Nobel Prize in literature
1925
Followed by:
Grazia Deledda



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