George Bernard Shaw, George Bernard Shaw (1856- 1950)

Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright. He was born in Dublin, Ireland. His father was a court official, but later he failed in business and was addicted to wine making, so his mother left home to teach music in London. Influenced by his mother, Bernard Shaw likes music and painting since childhood. After graduating from the American-Israeli-American Missionary Middle School in Dublin, he was unable to pursue further studies due to financial constraints. 15 years old, working as a copywriter and later as an accountant. From 65438 to 0876, he lived in his mother's office in London, writing music reviews for Star, drama reviews for Saturday Review and journalism.

Bernard Shaw's world view is very complicated. He accepted the philosophical thoughts of Bergson, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche and studied Marx's Das Kapital. /kloc-joined Fabian Society in 0/884, advocating gradual improvement to change the capitalist system and opposing violent revolution. In art, influenced by Ibsen, he advocated writing about social issues and opposed the idea of "art for art's sake".

Bernard Shaw's literature began with novel creation, but his outstanding achievement is drama. "His plays make him the most fascinating writer of our time" (award speech). In the nearly 64 years from 1885 to 1949, he completed 5 1 scripts. In the early stage, it was mainly unpleasant dramas, including Widower's House (1892), Dangzi (1893) and Mrs. Warren's Occupation (1894). Happy drama series consists of weapons and people (1894), condida (1894), man of the hour (1895) and unpredictable (1896). The third drama collection is called Drama for the Puritans, including The Devil's Disciples (1897), Caesar and Cleopatra (1898) and The Transformation of Captain Brasband (1897).

After entering the 20th century, Bernard Shaw's creation reached its peak, and successively published Man and Superman (1903), Major Barbara (1905), A Sad Home (19 13) and Joan of Arc. Among them, Joan of Arc has achieved unprecedented success and is recognized as his best historical play, which is the "highest peak of poet's creation" (acceptance speech).

Bernard Shaw's outstanding drama creation activities not only won him the title of "Moliere of the 20th century", but also won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925. "Because his works are idealistic and humanitarian, their inspiring and ironic often contain unique poetic beauty."