Shaw Portrait 1914 New York Times
-Born: July 26th 1856 – Died: November 2nd 1950.
-Born into a poor family in the city of Dublin, Ireland.
-Shaw was a dedicated Socialist: a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the m
eans of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole. (Dictionary.com).
-First worked as a Journalist and Music Critic and eventually a Drama Critic.
-He married Charlotte Payne-Townshend in 1898.-In 1913 Shaw wrote Pygmalion, which satirizes the English class system through the story of a cockney girl's transformation into a lady at the hands of a speech professor. The latter has proved to be Shaw's most successful work—as a play, as a motion picture,
and as the basis for the musical and film My Fair Lady (1956; 1964) (Encyclopedia.com).
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