George Bernard Shaw: A Playwright Crying for Social Reform

A concise introduction to the author's life, family, works, and controversies.
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 George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw, one of the most influential playwrights, critics, and intellectuals of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was born on July 26, 1856, in Dublin, Ireland. He was the youngest of three children in a Protestant Anglo-Irish...