Shaw

Shaw
   , SHAVIAN
   George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was born in Dublin, Ireland, attended school there, but left for England to earn a living. Intensely interested in socialism, Shaw was an early member of the Socialist Fabian society. He was appointed reviewer for the Pall Mall Gazette, which enabled him to see many plays. Shaw became disgusted with what he saw and decided to write plays of better quality. He wrote five unsuccessful novels before his first play, Widower's Houses, produced in 1892. Despite Shaw's inauspicious beginnings he rose to be the greatest literary figure of his time. He wrote Arms and the Man (1894), Man and Superman (1903), and Pygmalion (1912), for the actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell, on which the hit show My Fair Lady was based. Shaw was a legend in his day. His personality, his wit, his movements—everything he said or did—received international notice. Realizing that many adjectives would be used to describe him, Shaw decided to come up with one himself. Shawian didn't ring well, so he Latinized his name and came up with Shavian, which has been used to refer to his style of writing ever since.

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