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Works of G. B. Shaw: Introduction

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Shaw, George Bernard

Shaw, George Bernard
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Critic: Schwartz, Grace Horowitz
Affiliation: Department Of English, City University Of New York

Introduction

Shaw's Life:

George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin, Ireland, on July 26, 1856. He
lived for ninety-four years and wrote more than fifty plays. He is usually
considered to be the greatest writer of plays in the English language since
Shakespeare. He also wrote many volumes of literary criticism, art criticism,
and music criticism, as well as numerous essays on social and political
problems; an example of such an essay is the one called ...

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