George Bernard Shaw Summary

Everything you need to understand or teach George Bernard Shaw.

  • 5 Biographies
  • 3 Student Essays
  • 7 Literature Criticisms
  • ...and more

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Biographies (5)

10,800 words, approx. 37 pages
Biography EssayA long life made Shaw's multifaceted activities possible, for he was handicapped by a decadelong false start in fiction, and even more by the circumstances of his upbringing. Born Georg... Read more
1,282 words, approx. 5 pages
The British playwright, critic, and pamphleteer George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) produced more than 52 plays and playlets, three volumes of music and drama criticism, and one major volume of socialist ... Read more
8,489 words, approx. 29 pages
A long life made Shaw's multifaceted activities possible, for he was handicapped by a decade-long false start in fiction, and even more by the circumstances of his upbringing. Born George Bernard Shaw... Read more
4,131 words, approx. 14 pages
Had Shaw died in the same year that Queen Victoria did (1901), he would not be known as one of the greatest playwrights in English since Shakespeare, but he would still be recognized as one of the maj... Read more
7,204 words, approx. 25 pages
Bernard Shaw was one of the most important, and certainly the most prolific, reform writers of the twentieth century. In provocative, trenchant, and humorous style he tried to formulate a constructive... Read more