Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

Tryon Edwards, 1809 – 1894
George Bernard Shaw biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of George Bernard Shaw

Author Name:

George Bernard Shaw

Born As:

George Bernard Shaw

Other Names:

George Bernard Shaw

Born:

28 Jul 1856

Died:

2 Nov 1950




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Playwright                          
Selected Works:

Essays:

Quintessence of Ibsenism - 1891
The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring - 1898
Maxims for Revolutionists - 1903
Preface to Major Barbara - 1905
How to Write a Popular Play - 1909
Treatise on Parents and Children - 1910
Common Sense about the War - 1914
The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism - 1928

Drama:

Plays Unpleasant - published 1898

Widowers' Houses - 1892
The Philanderer - 1898
Mrs Warren's Profession - 1893

Plays Pleasant - published 1898:

Arms and the Man - 1894
Candida - 1894
The Man of Destiny - 1895
You Never Can Tell - 1897

Three Plays for Puritans - published 1901:

The Devil's Disciple - 1897
Caesar and Cleopatra - 1898
Captain Brassbound's Conversion - 1899

The Admirable Bashville - 1901
Man and Superman - 1902-03
John Bull's Other Island - 1904
How He Lied to Her Husband - 1904
Major Barbara - 1905
The Doctor's Dilemma - 1906
Getting Married - 1908
The Glimpse of Reality - 1909
The Fascinating Foundling - 1909
Press Cuttings - 1909
Misalliance - 1910
Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress - 1917

Dark Lady of the Sonnets - 1910
Alternate source for "Dark Lady" - 1910
Fanny's First Play - 1911

Overruled - 1912
Androcles and the Lion - 1912
Pygmalion - 1912-13
The Great Catherine - 1913
The Inca of Perusalem - 1915
O'Flaherty VC - 1915
Augustus Does His Bit - 1916
Heartbreak House - 1919

Back to Methuselah - 1921
In the Beginning
The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas
The Thing Happens
Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman
As Far as Thought Can Reach

Saint Joan - 1923
The Apple Cart - 1929
Too True To Be Good - 1931
On the Rocks - 1933
The Six of Calais - 1934
The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles - 1934
The Shewing Up of Blanco Posnet - 1909
The Millionairess - 1936
Geneva - 1938
In Good King Charles' Golden Days - 1939
Buoyant Billions - 1947
Shakes versus Shav - 1949.                                              
Mother Lucinda Elizabeth Gurly
Father George Carr Shaw, three children, Lucinda Frances, George Bernard and Elinor Agnes .                                              
Nobel Prize in Literature - 1925
Academy Award Pygmalion - i1938