George Bernard Shaw Quick Facts

George Bernard Shaw was an Anglo-Irish playwright, literary critic, and novelist.

Profile

• Birth Name: George Bernard Shaw
• AKA: Bernard Shaw
• Date of Birth: July 26, 1856
• Place of Birth: Portobello, Dublin, Ireland
• Zodiac Sign: Leo
• Death: November 2, 1950
• Place of Death: Ayot St. Lawrence, United Kingdom
• Cause of Death: Kidney dysfunction after falling from a ladder
• Ethnicity: White
• Nationality: Irish & British
• Height: 6 ft 2 in
• Place of Burial: Cremated (ashes scattered in different places)
• Father: George Carr Shaw (1814–1885)
• Mother: Lucinda Elizabeth Shaw (1830–1913)
• Siblings:

1. Sister- Lucinda Butterfield (1853–1920)
2. Sister- Elinor Shaw (1855–1876)

• Sexual Orientation: Straight
• Spouse: Charlotte Payne-Townshend (m. 1898 –1943) (b. 1857– d.1943)
• Children: None
• Alma Mater: Wesley College
• George Bernard Shaw was Known for: incorporating comic and complex elements to unveil social evils, and exploring philosophical ideas
• George Bernard Shaw was criticized for: NA
• George Bernard Shaw was influenced by: Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 –1860), Richard Wagner (1813 –1883), Henry David Thoreau (1817 –1862), Karl Marx (1818 –1883), Henrik Ibsen (1828 –1906), William Morris (1834 –1896), W. S. Gilbert (1836 –1911), Henry George (1839 –1897), Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 –1900), Joseph Stalin (1878 –1953), and Agustus Montrose.
• Shaw’s works inspired: T. S. Eliot (1888–1965), Noël Coward (1899–1973), Peter Nichols (b. 1927), Henry Livings (1929–1998), Tom Stoppard (1937), and Alan Ayckbourn (b. 1939)

Notable Awards

• Nobel Prize in literature (1925) “for his work which is marked by both idealism and humanity, its stimulating satire often being infused with a singular poetic beauty"
• Academy Award (1938) for the film adaptation of Pygmalion.

Quotes

“You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

Did You Know?

• Bernard Shaw was the youngest child and the only son of George Carr Shaw and Lucinda Elizabeth Shaw.
• During his childhood Shaw went to numerous educational institutions, all of which he detested.
• Shaw wanted to refuse the Nobel Prize in literature, but ultimately accepted it since his wife insisted that it was a tribute to Ireland.
• Although Shaw accepted the 1925 Nobel Prize, he refused the prize money, arranging instead for the money to go toward funding the translation of Swedish literature into English.
• During lifetime, Shaw produced more than fifty plays and three volumes of music and drama criticism.
• Many critics consider Shaw as the greatest English dramatist since William Shakespeare.
• In 1893 Shaw Published his first play, Widowers' Houses, which he described as an "unpleasant" play.
• He used the pseudonyms "GBS" and "Corno di Bassetto" as a columnist.
• Shaw was a vegetarian, and kept himself aloof from alcohol or coffee.
• It is rumoured that he and his wife never consummated sexual relationship.
• During his lifetime Shaw maintained relationship with many women which he continued even after marriage.

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