Bernard Shaw (footballer)
George Bernard Shaw , known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic and polemicist whose influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman , Pygmalion and Saint Joan . With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Shaw was born atUpper Synge Street in Portobello, a lowermiddleclass part of Dublin. He was the youngest child and only son of George Carr Shaw and Lucinda Elizabeth Shaw his elder siblings were Lucinda Frances and Elinor Agnes . The Shaw family was of English descent and belonged to the dominant Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland George Carr Shaw, an ineffectual alcoholic, was among the familys less successful members. His relatives secured him a sinecure in the civil service, from which he was pensioned off in the early 1850s thereafter he worked irregularly as a corn merchant. In 1852 he married Bessie Gurly in the view of Shaws biographer Michael Holroyd she married to escape a tyrannical greataunt. If, as Holroyd and others surmise, Georges motives were mercenary, then he was disappointed, as Bessie brought him little of her familys money. She came to despise her ineffectual and often drunken husband, with whom she shared what their son later described as a life of shabbygen
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