George Bernard Shaw

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Lastly, there is one general truth about Ireland which may very well have influenced Bernard Shaw from the first; and almost certainly influenced him for good. Ireland is a coun...

By the middle of the nineteenth century when Shaw was born this dim and barbaric element in Puritanism, being all that remained of it, had added another taboo to its philosophy...

But among these surprise attacks of G. B. S., these turnings of scepticism against the sceptics, there was one which has figured largely in his life; the most amusing and perhap...

I say it seems odd that such a writer should not be appreciated in a flash; but upon this point there is evidently a real difference of opinion, and it constitutes for me the st...

With the full Puritan combination of passion and precision he informed everybody that Ibsen was not artistic, but moral; that his dramas were didactic, that all great art was di...

A far more important play is _The Philanderer_, an ironic comedy which is full of fine strokes and real satire; it is more especially the vehicle of some of Shaw's best satire u...

The third play in order in the series called _Plays for Puritans_ is a very charming one; _Captain Brassbound's Conversion_. This also turns, as does so much of the Cæsar drama,...

I should suppose that _Cæsar and Cleopatra_ marks about the turning tide of Bernard Shaw's fortune and fame. Up to this time he had known glory, but never success. He had been w...

Now the reason why our fathers did not make marriage, in the middle-aged and static sense, the subject of their plays was a very simple one; it was that a play is a very bad pla...

It is characteristic of him to say that he rushed into print with a frank confession of the failure of his old theory. But it is also characteristic of him that he rushed into p...

But as I put these last papers together, having finished this rude study, I hear a piece of news. His latest play, _The Showing Up of Blanco Posnet_, has been forbidden by the C...

If that were all that I meant by Shaw making men more philosophic, I should put it not among his good influences but his bad. He did do that to some extent; and so far he is bad...