George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political...
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The following is a list of works by George Bernard Shaw. The first section shows works in chronological sequence as written, the second tabulates these...
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Doolittle in the original West End production of Pygmalion, which George Bernard Shaw had expressly written for her. Although forty-nine years old when...
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George Bernard Shaw: His Plays (1905) is H. L. Mencken's summary and interpretation of George Bernard Shaw's plays. Mencken had been introduced to the...
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LÉ George Bernard Shaw (P64) is a Samuel Beckett-class offshore patrol vessel (OPV) of the Irish Naval Service. It is the fourth ship in a series of vessels...
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George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) was an Irish playwright. Bernard Shaw may also refer to: Bernard Shaw (footballer, born before 1900), English football...
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Charlotte Payne-Townshend (redirect from Charlotte Frances Shaw)
dedicated to the struggle for women's rights. She married the playwright George Bernard Shaw. Daughter of Horace Townshend, she grew up in a wealthy Irish family...
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Stanford University. Born in Portland, Oregon, George Bernard Dantzig was named after George Bernard Shaw, the Irish writer. He was born to Jewish parents;...
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Man and Superman (redirect from John Tanner (Shaw))
and Superman is a four-act drama written by George Bernard Shaw in 1903, in response to a call for Shaw to write a play based on the Don Juan theme....
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SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies is an academic journal devoted to the works and life of George Bernard Shaw. The journal is published annually...
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Wilson. She adopted the surname Shaw, which was her grandmother's maiden name, also doing so in tribute to George Bernard Shaw. In 1983, she starred as Julia...
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Shavian alphabet (redirect from Shaw alphabet)
funded by and named after Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw and designed by Ronald Kingsley Read. Shaw set three main criteria for the new alphabet...
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T. E. Lawrence (redirect from 338171 A/C Shaw)
changed his name to T. E. Shaw (apparently as a consequence of his friendship with George Bernard Shaw and Charlotte Shaw) and joined the Royal Tank...
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Mrs. Warren's Profession (category Plays by George Bernard Shaw)
Profession is a play written by George Bernard Shaw in 1893, and first performed in London in 1902. It is one of the three plays Shaw published as Plays Unpleasant...
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Arms and the Man (category Plays by George Bernard Shaw)
Arms and the Man is a comedy by George Bernard Shaw, whose title comes from the opening words of Virgil's Aeneid, in Latin: Arma virumque cano ("Of arms...
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Pygmalion is a 1938 British film based on the 1913 George Bernard Shaw play of the same name, and adapted by him for the screen. It stars Leslie Howard...
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1925 Nobel Prize in Literature (category George Bernard Shaw)
1925 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) "for his work which is marked by both idealism and humanity...
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was a British publisher. He published Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, George Bernard Shaw and Graham Greene. Max Reinhardt was born on 30 November 1915 in...
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further three vessels were named James Joyce, William Butler Yeats and George Bernard Shaw, and delivered in 2015, 2016 and 2018 respectively. Vard Marine Inc...
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herself, so bringing the play to a conclusion of reconciliations. In George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play Pygmalion, a modern variant of the myth, the underclass...
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Bardolatry (category George Bernard Shaw)
of idols), was coined by George Bernard Shaw in the preface to his collection Three Plays for Puritans published in 1901. Shaw professed to dislike Shakespeare...
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stage directing, notably in The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, and George Bernard Shaw's Don Juan in Hell, in which he also starred. He directed one film...
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Theatre Award for her performance of Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw at the Abbey Theatre. She was nominated for Best Actress in a Play...
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Stratford Festival. The Shaw Festival was founded in 1962. Originally, it only featured productions written by George Bernard Shaw, but changes were later...
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Back to Methuselah (category Plays by George Bernard Shaw)
Back to Methuselah (A Metabiological Pentateuch) by George Bernard Shaw consists of a preface (The Infidel Half Century) and a series of five plays: In...
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Major Barbara (category Plays by George Bernard Shaw)
Major Barbara is a three-act English play by George Bernard Shaw, written and premiered in 1905 and first published in 1907. The story concerns an idealistic...
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H. G. Wells (redirect from Wells, Herbert George, B.Sc., Etc.)
cremated at Golders Green, with friends of the couple present including George Bernard Shaw.: 64 Wells had multiple love affairs. Dorothy Richardson was a friend...
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career, she played roles ranging from the heroines of Noël Coward and George Bernard Shaw comedies to classic Shakespearean characters such as Ophelia, Cleopatra...
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protagonist John Tanner in the five-hour Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw. Shaw wrote Take a Life, his first play, in 1961. He directed a production...
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George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), Irish playwright George C. Shaw (1866–1960), Philippine–American War Medal of Honor recipient George Ferdinand Shaw (1821–1899)...
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