Dramatist Bernard Shaw

Dramatist Bernard Shaw

Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin in 26 July 1856. His father’s family had been a small landowner in Ireland since the last seventeenth century. Shaw’s education was ordinary enough but as a boy he loved frequent visit to Irish National Gallery to study the pictures there and by the time, he was fifteen. He had a sound knowledge of some of the great composers too. Then his mother having gone to London, he was left with his father and worked as a clerk in a Dublin Estate Agent Office. Determining to be a writer he resigned himself for the post. At the age of 20 he joined his mother in London. At the age of 26 he completed writing four novels. By 1890,

his knowledge of contemporary economic matter was considerable. He chose the drama as the means where by to criticise and educated society the next year. He published the first collection of plays entitled Pleasant and Unpleasant in 1898.With the publication of ‘Man and Superman’ he attained his full status as a dramatist at the age of 47.He died at the age of 94,of renal failure precipitated by injuries incurred by falling while pruning atree.