Short Biography of G B Shaw

" George Bernard Shaw", he was born on July 1856 and he died on 2nd of November 1950 at 94, he was known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond.He had British nationality and Irish too.He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1912) and Saint Joan (1923). With a wide range,  incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born in Dublin, he moved to London in 1876, where he struggled to establish himself as a writer and novelist, and embarked on a rigorous process of self-education. By the mid of1880s,he had become a respected theatre and music critic in London. He  was following a political awakening there, he joined the gradualist Fabian Society and became its most prominent pamphleteer. Shaw had been writing plays for years before his first success play, Arms and the Man in 1894. He influenced deeply by Henrik Ibsen, he sought to introduce a new realism into English-language plays, using his plays as vehicles to disseminate his political, social and religious ideas and thoughts. By the early twentieth century,  his reputation as a dramatist was secured with a series of critical and popular succeeded plays as Major Barbara, The Doctor's Dilemma and Caesar and Cleopatra.

               His expressed views were often contentious; he promoted eugenics and alphabet reform, and opposed vaccination and organised religion that was the burning issues. He stated unpopularity by denouncing both sides in the First World War as equally culpable, although not a republican, castigated British policy on Ireland in the postwar period. He wanted to spread among them with the power of pen and also wanted to prove that the power of pen mightier than sword. These circumstances had no lasting effect on his standing or productivity as a dramatist; the inter-war years saw a series of ambitious plays, which achieved varying degrees of popular success in his own history. In 1938,he had provided the screenplay for a filmed version of Pygmalion for which he had received an Academy Award for his highest honors. His appetite for politics and controversy remained undiminished,in the late 1920s,  he had largely renounced Fabian Society gradualism and often wrote and spoke favourably of dictatorships of the right and left and he expressed admiration for both Mussolini and Stalin. In the last decade of his life,  he made fewer public statements but continued to write prolifically until his death, aged ninety-four, having refused all state honours, including the Order of Merit in 1946.

                                              Since his death scholarly and radiant opinion about his works had varied but he had regularly been rated among British dramatists as second after William Shakespeare, analysts recognise his extensive influence on generations after generations of English-language dramatists. His words for expressing his feelings were really brilliant and unusual because he had lanced the both societies very closely. His plays were the mirror of the  British and the Irish societies. Shaw took a large space in the Literature after Shakespeare.