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    George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political...
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    The following is a list of works by George Bernard Shaw. The first section shows works in chronological sequence as written, the second tabulates these...
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    George Bernard Shaw (P64) is a Samuel Beckett-class offshore patrol vessel (OPV) of the Irish Naval Service. It is the fourth ship in a series of vessels...
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    dedicated to the struggle for women's rights. She married the playwright George Bernard Shaw. Daughter of Horace Townshend, she grew up in a wealthy Irish family...
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    Doolittle in the original West End production of Pygmalion, which George Bernard Shaw had expressly written for her. Although forty-nine years old when...
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  • George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) was an Irish playwright. Bernard Shaw may also refer to: Bernard Shaw (footballer, born before 1900), English football...
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    and Superman is a four-act drama written by George Bernard Shaw in 1903, in response to a call for Shaw to write a play based on the Don Juan theme....
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  • George Bernard Shaw: His Plays (1905) is H. L. Mencken's interpretation of G. Bernard Shaw's plays, in which Mencken overwhelmingly embraced the man who...
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    1925 Nobel Prize in Literature (category George Bernard Shaw)
    1925 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) "for his work which is marked by both idealism and humanity...
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    Bardolatry (category George Bernard Shaw)
    of idols), was coined by George Bernard Shaw in the preface to his collection Three Plays for Puritans published in 1901. Shaw professed to dislike Shakespeare...
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    The Apple Cart (category Plays by George Bernard Shaw)
    The Apple Cart: A Political Extravaganza is a 1928 play by George Bernard Shaw. It is a satirical comedy about several political philosophies which are...
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  • George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), Irish playwright George C. Shaw (1866–1960), Philippine–American War Medal of Honor recipient George Ferdinand Shaw (1821–1899)...
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    first was bestowed on Benjamin Franklin in 1753. In 1935 playwright George Bernard Shaw declined nomination for a Harvard honorary degree, urging instead...
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    Mrs. Warren's Profession (category Plays by George Bernard Shaw)
    Profession is a play written by George Bernard Shaw in 1893, and first performed in London in 1902. It is one of the three plays Shaw published as Plays Unpleasant...
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    Arms and the Man (category Plays by George Bernard Shaw)
    Arms and the Man is a comedy by George Bernard Shaw, whose title comes from the opening words of Virgil's Aeneid, in Latin: Arma virumque cano ("Of arms...
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  • SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies is an academic journal devoted to the works and life of George Bernard Shaw. The journal is published annually...
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  • Theatre Award for her performance of Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw at the Abbey Theatre. She was nominated for Best Actress in a Play...
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    further three vessels were named James Joyce, William Butler Yeats and George Bernard Shaw, and delivered in 2015, 2016 and 2018 respectively. Vard Marine Inc...
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    published. He corresponded with many notable figures, including George Bernard Shaw, Edward Elgar, Winston Churchill, Robert Graves, Noël Coward, E....
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    figures of his time, including Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw and Joseph Conrad. Popular as his portrait work was, almost all of...
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    the Naval Service meant that two additional ships (James Joyce, George Bernard Shaw) were placed into reserve in August 2023. The Naval Service is headed...
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  • It was posthumously funded by and named after Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw. Shaw set three main criteria for the new alphabet. It should be: at...
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    Heartbreak House (category Plays by George Bernard Shaw)
    Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes is a play written by George Bernard Shaw, first published in 1919. The English language premiere was at the...
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    Shaw's Corner was the primary residence of the renowned Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw; it is now a National Trust property open to the public as...
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    herself, so bringing the play to a conclusion of reconciliations. In George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play Pygmalion, a modern variant of the myth, the underclass...
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    has influenced many other playwrights, including Eugene O'Neill, George Bernard Shaw, David Mamet, and Arthur Miller. The spelling of character names...
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    Payne-Townshend Shaw, wife of the playwright George Bernard Shaw. The library includes the Fabian Window, a stained-glass window designed by George Bernard Shaw. British...
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    stage directing, notably in The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, and George Bernard Shaw's Don Juan in Hell, in which he also starred. He directed one film...
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    Major Barbara (category Plays by George Bernard Shaw)
    Major Barbara is a three-act English play by George Bernard Shaw, written and premiered in 1905 and first published in 1907. The story concerns an idealistic...
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  • in North America. The Shaw Festival was founded in 1962. Originally, it only featured productions written by George Bernard Shaw, but changes were later...
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