The British playwright, critic, and pamphleteer George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) produced more than 60 plays and playlets, three volumes of music and drama criticism, and one major volume of socialist commentary.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925.

George Bernard Shaw's theater extended to his personal life. He considered himself a cultural miracle, and a partisan conflict among his readers and playgoers provoked a massive body of literature for and against him and his work. Much recent criticism concludes that he ranks as the greatest English dramatist since William Shakespeare.

Shaw was born in Dublin, Ireland, on July 16, 1856. At an early age, he was tutored in classics by an uncle, and when he was 10 years old, he entered the Wesleyan Connexional School in Dublin. There his academic performance was largely a failure. Shaw later described his own education: "I cannot learn anything that does not interest me. My memory is not indiscriminate, it rejects and selects, and its selections are not academic." Part of his nonacademic training was handled by his mother, a music teacher, and a mezzo-soprano; Shaw studied music and art at the same time. He became a Dublin office boy in 1871 at a monthly salary equivalent to $4.50. Success in business threatened him: "I made good," he wrote, "in spite of myself and found, to my dismay, that Business, instead of expelling me like the worthless imposter I was, was fastened upon me with no intention of letting me go….In March 1876, I broke loose." Resigning a cashier's position, Shaw joined his mother and two sisters in London, where they conducted a music school. Shaw had started writing, at the age of 16, criticism and reviews for Irish newspapers and magazines; in 4 years only one piece was accepted. Shaw lived in London for 9 years after 1876 supported by his parents and continued to write criticism. He also entertained in London society as a singer.

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