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Password Please enter your Password. Forgot password? Don't have an account? Born in Dublin in to a middle-class Protestant family bearing pretensions to nobility Shaw's embarrassing alcoholic father claimed to be descended from Macduff, the slayer of Macbeth , George Bernard Shaw grew to become what some consider the second greatest English playwright, behind only Shakespeare.
Others most certainly disagree with such an assessment, but few question Shaw's immense talent or the play's that talent produced.
Shaw died at the age of 94, a hypochondriac, socialist, anti-vaccinationist, semi-feminist vegetarian who believed in the Life Force and only wore wool. He left behind him a truly massive corpus of work including about 60 plays, 5 novels, 3 volumes of music criticism, 4 volumes of dance and theatrical criticism, and heaps of social commentary, political theory, and voluminous correspondence.
And this list does not include the opinions that Shaw could always be counted on to hold about any topic, and which this flamboyant public figure was always most willing to share. Shaw's most lasting contribution is no doubt his plays, and it has been said that "a day never passes without a performance of some Shaw play being given somewhere in the world. In that way, he created the conditions for later playwrights to write seriously for the theater.
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