George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright, socialist, and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama. Over the course of his life he wrote more than 60 plays. Nearly all his plays address prevailing social problems, but each also includes a vein of comedy that makes their stark themes more palatable. In these works Shaw examined education, marriage, religion, government, health care, and class privilege. An ardent socialist, Shaw was angered by what he perceived to be the exploitation of the working class. He wrote many brochures and speeches for the Fabian Society. He became an accomplished orator in the furtherance of its causes, which included gaining equal rights for men and women, alleviating abuses of the working class, rescinding private ownership of productive land, and promoting healthy lifestyles. For a short time he was active in local politics, serving on the London County Council. In 1898, Shaw married Charlotte Payne-Townshend, a fellow Fabian, whom he survived. They settled in Ayot St. Lawrence in a house now called Shaw's Corner. He is the only person to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize for Literature (1925) and an Oscar (1938). The former for his contributions to literature and the latter for his work on the film "Pygmalion" (adaptation of his play of the same name). Shaw wanted to refuse his Nobel Prize outright, as he had no desire for public honours, but he accepted it at his wife's behest. She considered it a tribute to Ireland. He did reject the monetary award, requesting it be used to finance translation of Swedish books to English. Shaw died at Shaw's Corner, aged 94, from chronic health problems exacerbated by injuries incurred by falling.
Books
Two Plays for Puritans
1966
Candida
1934
The Doctor's Dilemma
1906
The Man of Destiny
1896
The Music Cure
1987
Major Critical Essays
1974
Village Wooing
1933
Plays By George Bernard Shaw
Mrs. Warren's Profession / Arms and the Man / Candida / Man and Superman
1960
Complete Plays with Prefaces
1934
Misalliance
1984
Arms and the Man
1898
Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw
A Correspondence
1931
Dear Liar
2012
Plays by George Bernard Shaw
1929
The Apple Cart
1929
Dört Oyun
Sezar ile Kleopatra - Pygmalion - Kırgınlar Evi - Jan Dark
2004
Major Barbara
1905
Press Cuttings
1976
Geneva
1945
Cashel Byron's Profession
1886
The Portable Bernard Shaw
1977
Bernard Shaw & Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Their Correspondence
1952
Saint Joan
1923
The Miraculous Revenge
1996
Dark Lady of the Sonnets
2001
The Irrational Knot
1880
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God
1932
The Revolutionist's Handbook And Pocket Companion
1903
Three Plays for Puritans
1901
In Good King Charles' Golden Days
1939
Overruled
1912
Captain Brassbound's Conversion
1900
Plays Political
1986
Pygmalion / My Fair Lady
1956
Heartbreak House
1919
An Unsocial Socialist
1887
Plays Unpleasant
1898
George Bernard Shaw's Plays
1970
Pygmalion and Three Other Plays
2004
Pygmalion and Other Plays
2010
Man and Superman and Three Other Plays
2003
Love Among The Artists
1900
The Devil's Disciple
1897
Pygmalion & Major Barbara
1916
Shaw's Music
1931
Fanny's First Play
1912
Widowers' Houses
1892
The Inca of Perusalem
2002
Selected One Act Plays
1965
Saint Joan/Major Barbara/Androcles and the Lion
1956
How He Lied To Her Husband
2004
Plays Extravagant
1981
Pygmalion and Candida
2004
المسيح ليس مسيحيا
1919
Augustus Does His Bit
1917
Fabian Essays in Socialism
2006
Plays Pleasant
1898
Pygmalion
1913
The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism, Capitalism, Sovietism and Fascism
1928
O'Flaherty V.C.
A Recruiting Pamphlet
1919
You Never Can Tell
1898
Don Juan in Hell
1903
The Quintessence of Ibsenism
1890
Four Plays by Bernard Shaw
Candida, Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, and Heartbreak House
1953
Man and Superman
1903
Millionairess
1936
Preface to Major Barbara
1906
On War
2008
Back to Methuselah
1921
Maxims for Revolutionists
1902
Works of George Bernard Shaw (30+ Works) Pygmalion, Major Barbara, Candida, The Irrational Knot, An Unsocial Socialist & more
2008
Seven Plays
1951
Mrs. Warren's Profession
1898
Androcles and the Lion
1912
Too True to be Good
A Political Extravaganza
1961
المتمردة - جورج برنارد شو
2016
Getting Married
1908
John Bull's Other Island
1904
Plays
1970
The Perfect Wagnerite
1931
Everybody's Political What's What
1944
Shaw on Shakespeare
1960
