George Bernard Shaw

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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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Milestones

26 July 1856

GBS , Irish dramatist and critic, was born in Dublin.
Innes, Christopher, editor. The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw. Cambridge University Press.
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12 April 1914

GBS 's best-known play, Pygmalion, opened at His Majesty's Theatre , Haymarket, London, with Mrs Patrick Campbell as Eliza Doolittle (a part written for her) to Sir Herbert Tree 's Henry Higgins.
This theatre is just across the street from the Haymarket Theatre or Theatre Royal, Haymarket .
Hartnoll, Phyllis, editor. The Oxford Companion to the Theatre. Oxford University Press.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century.
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2 November 1950

GBS , Irish dramatist and critic, died at Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire, at the age of ninety-four.
Innes, Christopher, editor. The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw. Cambridge University Press.
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Biography

Birth in Ireland

26 July 1856

GBS , Irish dramatist and critic, was born in Dublin.
Innes, Christopher, editor. The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw. Cambridge University Press.
xxi