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George Bernard Shaw – Playwright
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The people who get on in this
world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and,
if they can't find them, make them. - George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950)
was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics.
Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in
which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main
talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60 plays. He was also an essayist,
novelist and short story writer. Nearly all his writings address prevailing
social problems with a vein of comedy which makes their stark themes more
palatable. Issues which engaged Shaw's attention included education, marriage,
religion, government, health care, and class privilege.- Wikipedia.
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