November
2, 1950
George Bernard Shaw dies at
94
George Bernard Shaw (26 July
1856 – 2 November 1950) was a Nobel-Prize-winning British playwright, critic
and passionate socialist whose influence on Western theatre, culture and
politics stretched from the 1880s to his death in 1950.
He wrote more than 60 plays,
among them Man and Superman, Mrs. Warren's Profession, Major Barbara, Saint
Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, and Pygmalion. With his range from biting
contemporary satire to historical allegory, Shaw became the leading comedy
dramatist of his generation and one of the most important playwrights in the
English language since the 17th century.
He is the only person to
have been awarded both a Nobel Prize (Literature, 1925) and an Academy Award
(Best Adapted Screenplay, 1938), the first for his contributions to literature
and the second for his film adaptation of his most popular play, Pygmalion. The
story of a pedantic British linguist who turns a Cockney flower girl into a
lady was immortalised after his death in the 1953 Broadway musical, My Fair
Lady.
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