Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
George Bernard Shaw
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Standard Name: Shaw, George Bernard
Used Form: G. B. Shaw
GBS
was a drama critic who called for reform of theatrical practice, and a dramatist who attached to his plays on publication, lengthy prefaces expounding the social and dramatic issues opened by the play itself. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography calls him a polemicist, and says that much of the drama of his time and after was indirectly in his debt for his creation of a drama of moral passion and of intellectual conflict and debate.
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Reception | Ethel Lilian Voynich | The novel has been adapted in the form of five separate films (one scored by Dmitri Shostakovich
), five theatrical productions (one by George Bernard Shaw
written specifically to secure theatrical copyright for ELV
... |
Publishing | Elizabeth von Arnim | |
Leisure and Society | Katharine Tynan | This same year KT
attended a meeting of the Browning Society
(founded in the summer of 1881) at which she met George Bernard Shaw
. Tynan, Katharine. Twenty-Five Years: Reminiscences. Smith, Elder. 357 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Robert Browning (1812-1889) |
Family and Intimate relationships | Iris Tree | Writer, critic, and caricaturist Sir Max Beerbohm
was IT
's half-uncle, the youngest son from Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's father's second marriage. Best remembered for his drawings and caricatures of the famous, Beerbohm also wrote... |
Education | Viola Tree | In 1911 Bernard Shaw
, who was an opera critic as well as a playwright, and a Tree family friend (his donations were crucial to the success of Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
), wrote... |
Friends, Associates | Flora Thompson | Grayshott offered more extensive opportunities. As well as offering the usual library and penny readings, it was a centre for literary celebrities. During her work in the post-office FT
observed and caught snatches of the... |
Literary responses | Josephine Tey | The play garnered high praise from contemporary theatre critics, and was immensely popular with audiences, some of whom reputedly went to see it thirty or forty times. Gielgud, Sir John. Early Stages. Falcon. 178 |
Textual Production | Marie Stopes | Other later poems include Wartime Harvest, 1944 (which brought together a preface by Lord Alfred Douglas
and a letter from George Bernard Shaw
), and Instead of Tears: In Memoriam for Officers and Men... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | G. B. Stern | Her early novels combine a strain of intellectualism (characters discuss Shaw
and Nietzsche
) with a self-conscious modernity (attention to issues and to sophistication of tone). She was held to belong to the stream of... |
Textual Production | Freya Stark | In Such Good Friends and Friends of a Lifetime, Sir Sydney Cockerell
published a selection of letters from his (mostly famous) associates; according to critics, among the best were those written by G. B. Shaw |
Literary responses | Christopher St John | St John said that after she published her novels George Bernard Shaw
(a great friend and supporter of her, Craig, and Tony Atwood
) suggested that she should write a history of her own unconventional... |
Textual Production | Christopher St John | After Terry's death in 1928, St John engaged in literary as well as theatrical memorial work of various kinds. She edited Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw
: a Correspondence, 1931, edited and provided an... |
Literary responses | Edith Somerville | He
, however, comprehensively condemned it. Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber. 208 Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber. 255-6 |
Friends, Associates | Edith Somerville | ES
first heard of George Bernard Shaw
not as a writer but when he married one of her cousins. Her first reaction was one of prejudice: against his lower-middle-class background, his socialism, and his revulsive... |
Textual Production | Edith Somerville | As civil war loomed in Ireland and need for money pressed, ES
made two efforts to convert the R. M. stories into a play. She first asked for help from Maurice Hastings
, a friend... |
Timeline
1914: Actress Sybil Thorndike joined London's Old...
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1914
February 1916: Painter C. R. W. Nevinson scored a great...
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February 1916
Painter C. R. W. Nevinson
scored a great success with his first one-man show, at the Leicester Galleries in London, of paintings expressive of the dehumanised violence of modern warfare.
3 August 1916: In the aftermath of the Easter Rising, Irish...
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3 August 1916
In the aftermath of the Easter Rising, Irish nationalist Roger Casement
, formerly Sir Roger, was executed for treason at Pentonville Prison
in London for attempting to smuggle a shipment of German arms to Ireland.
11 November 1920: Two years after the end of the Great War,...
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11 November 1920
Two years after the end of the Great War, Britain commemorated with the unveiling of the Cenotaph in Whitehall and the state funeral of an unidentified soldier in Westminster Abbey.
January 1921: The Englishwoman, a monthly forum for serious...
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January 1921
The Englishwoman, a monthly forum for serious feminist discussion, ceased publication in London.
June 1925: The Independent Labour Party founded an Arts...
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June 1925
The Independent Labour Party
founded an Arts Guild
to promote socialist drama and performance.
22 June 1925: The Film Society was incorporated in London,...
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22 June 1925
The Film Society
was incorporated in London, where it operated until 1939.
By October 1926: The BBC named Hilda Matheson as its first...
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By October 1926
The BBC
named Hilda Matheson
as its first Director of Talks, one of the most highly paid jobs for a woman in any organisation at that time, as her biographer puts it.
Carney, Michael. Stoker. Published by the author.
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1937: The two-year-old Penguin Books launched its...
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1937
The two-year-old Penguin Books
launched its Pelican imprint: a non-fiction series (mostly history, sociology, economics, or politics) which, unlike Penguin fiction, were new works not reprints.
1938: Anthony Asquith directed the film Pygmalion...
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1938
Anthony Asquith
directed the film Pygmalion (from George Bernard Shaw
's original play), which is remembered as his most successful film. Pygmalion went on to win two Oscars, including Shaw's for best screenplay.
1944: The Old Vic Company began its season at New...
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1944
The Old Vic Company
began its season at New Theatre
in London with Laurence Olivier
and Ralph Richardson
in Ibsen
's Peer Gynt, Shaw
's Arms and the Man, and Shakespeare
's Richard III.
10 May 1951: Actress Vivien Leigh and actor Laurence Olivier...
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10 May 1951
Actress Vivien Leigh
and actor Laurence Olivier
began the season at St James's Theatre
, London, alternately playing Shaw
's Caesar and Cleopatra and Shakespeare
's Antony and Cleopatra.
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