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George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin, Ireland, and left school at age fourteen. In 1876, he moved to London and remained an expatriate for the rest of his life. Shaw worked as a major critic of music, art, and drama. He was unsuccessful as a dramatist and did not produce his first play, Widowers' Houses, until 1892. Although it failed, Shaw later wrote many successful plays, including Mrs. Warren's Profession (1893), Arms and the Man (1894), The Devil's Disciple (1897), Caesar and Cleopatra (1899), Man and Superman (1905), Major Barbara (1905), Doctor's Dilemma (1906), Androcles and the Lion (1912), Heartbreak House (1913), Saint Joan (1923), and Buoyant Billions (1948). Shaw believed in language reform, especially spelling and punctuation, which accounts for some of the stylistic elements in his texts. He was a Fabian Socialist, a society which advocated women's rights, equality of income, distribution of property, and universal suffrage. Shaw was influenced by Henrik Ibsen, the production of whose plays he championed in England and the United States. In 1925, Shaw was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Author Links
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