Warren’s Profession deals with prostitution. Many of these plays dealt with social issues. You will find listed below some of this most significant plays So let us have a look at some of the plays of Shaw. It is primarily as a dramatist that we are concerned with Shaw, in this particular blog-post. It is interesting to note that Shaw’s first play to bring financial success was Arms and the Man. It was not successful but it gave Shaw the inspiration for another play, The Widowers’ House. It was after writing this that William Archer offered to collaborate with him in writing yet another play. His initial works were universally repelled by English publishers.Īfter several failed tries at writing fiction, he finally turned to drama and wrote his first play or playlet in French, Un Petit Drame. Shaw later joined them and began working on novels. Conditions did not improve when his mother left his father and moved away from home, taking her two daughters with her. But their poverty was a kind of a ‘genteel poverty’ which means though the young boy received a certain kind of attention, he was fated to be poor throughout his childhood. Though Shaw had been born into the gentry, who were typically landed Irish aristocrats who were very well off, his family was very poor. Considering most of his plays are on social structures and their criticism, this is very interesting. He was the youngest child and indeed, only son of his parents, having two elder sisters for his siblings. It might be surprising to learn that Shaw initially started off as a novelist before working his way into the English Theatre. But for learning’s sake, let us launch into a brief introduction of the one of the greatest English Playwrights of all time. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) needs no introduction to English Majors.
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