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SHAW, George Bernard

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From: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
Date: 19980101
Author:TOM McARTHUR

SHAW, George Bernard [1856–1950]. Irish dramatist and critic. Born in DUBLIN . Educated at Wesley Connexional School. He moved to London in 1876, where he wrote five novels that had little success, was a music, art, and drama critic, and an early member of the Fabian Society. He found the contemporary English theatre trivial and remote from serious issues, and admired the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen's treatment of social problems; his first play, Widowers' Houses (1893), was an indictment of the profits made by slum landlords. Shaw began a long career as a playwright, ...

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