Misalliance, The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, and Fanny's First Play. With a Treatise on Parents and Children - Shaw, Bernard
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This collection of plays includes three of Bernard Shaw's most celebrated works: Misalliance, The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, and Fanny's First Play. Each play is a masterpiece of wit and social commentary, examining the relationships between men and women, class and society, and the nature of art and creativity. Shaw's plays are timeless classics that continue to resonate with audiences today. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America,…mehr

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This collection of plays includes three of Bernard Shaw's most celebrated works: Misalliance, The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, and Fanny's First Play. Each play is a masterpiece of wit and social commentary, examining the relationships between men and women, class and society, and the nature of art and creativity. Shaw's plays are timeless classics that continue to resonate with audiences today. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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George Bernard Shaw was an Irish literary genius, he earned his name as prestigious dramatist, literary critic, socialist and political spokesman. He was born on 26 July 1856 Dublin, Ireland, youngest child of a middle class family. His father George Carr Shaw was a civil servant and a failed business man and his mother Lucinda Elizabeth Gurley Shaw was a singer. Due to his father's alcoholism family suffered a lot, his mother left the home with his sister and went London. Shaw studied at Wesleyan Connextional School, Dublin's Central Model School and Dublin English Scientific and Commercial Day School. Due to poverty he first worked as a junior clerk, at the 15 years of age. In 1876, he visited London and lived with his mother and sister. He chose journalism and writing as his career. Through his comical and humorous plays, he mostly wrote on existing social issues and exploitation of the working middle class that he faced himself. He wrote 60 plays based on social themes. In 1925, for his work Pygmalion he got Nobel Prize for literature later for it's film adaptation he received Oscar Award. His notable world-class Pygmalion, Man and Superman, Major Barbara, Candida, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra etc. At the age of 94, on 2 November 1950, George Bernard Shaw died.