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George Bernard Shaw (26/07/1856 – 02/11/1950) sinh ra ở Dublin, Ireland, sau di cư sang London, Anh, là "cha đẻ" của kịch ý niệm hiện đại, "một trong những nhà viết kịch xuất sắc nhất trong thời đại". Ông còn là một nhà hoạt động chính trị thành công, người đấu tranh cho bình đẳng nam nữ và công bằng xã hội. Cho đến nay, ông là người duy nhất trên thế giới được nhận hai giải thưởng cao quý: giải Nobel Văn học (năm 1925) và giải Oscar (năm 1938).

Năm 1923, vở Saint Joan (Nữ thánh Joan) ra đời và được đánh giá là đỉnh cao trong sự nghiệp sáng tác của Shaw. Shaw dùng tiền thưởng của giải thành lập Quỹ Văn học dành cho các tác giả viết kịch. Ông mất năm 1950 tại nhà riêng ở Hertfrordshire, Anh.

Tác phẩm tiêu biểu:

  • Immaturity (Non nớt, 1879), tiểu thuyết
  • The Irrational Knot (Cuộc hôn nhân không hợp lí, 1880), tiểu thuyết
  • Love Among the Artists (Tình nghệ sĩ, 1881), tiểu thuyết
  • Cashel Byron's Profession (Nghề của Cashel Byron, 1882), tiểu thuyết
  • An Unsocial Socialist (Một người xã hội chủ nghĩa phi xã hội, 1884), tiểu thuyết
  • The Man of Destiny (Con người của số phận, 1885), kịch
  • You Never Can Tell (Bạn chẳng bao giờ nói được, 1886), kịch
  • The quintessense of Ibsenism (Tinh túy của chủ nghĩa Ibsen, 1891), khảo cứu
  • Widowers' Houses (Những ngôi nhà của những người góa vợ, 1892), kịch
  • The Philanderer (Anh chàng hào hoa, 1893), kịch
  • Arms and the Man (Vũ khí và con người, 1894), kịch
  • The Devil's Disciple (Đồ đệ của quỷ, 1896-1897), kịch
  • Caesar and Cleopatra (Caesar và Cleopatra, 1901), kịch
  • Mrs. Warren's Profession (Nghề nghiệp của bà Warren, 1902), kịch
  • Man and Superman (Con người và siêu nhân, 1903), kịch
  • John Bull's Other Island (Hòn đảo khác của John Bull, 1904), kịch
  • Major Barbara (Thiếu tá Barbara, 1905), kịch
  • The Doctor's Dilemma (Tình trạng tiến thoái lưỡng nan của người bác sĩ, 1906), kịch
  • Fanny's Frist Play (Vở kịch đầu tay của Fanny, 1909), kịch
  • The Shewing Up of Blanco Posnet (Vạch trần Blanco Posnet, 1909), kịch
  • Misalliance (1910), kịch
  • Pygmalion (1912), kịch
  • Androcles and the Lion (Androcles và sư tử, 1913), kịch
  • Common Sense about the War (Suy nghĩ lành mạnh về chiến tranh, 1914), tiểu luận
  • Augustus does his bit (Augustus thực hiện nghĩa vụ của mình, 1917), kịch
  • Heartbreak House (Ngôi nhà trái tim tan vỡ, 1919), kịch
  • Back to Methuselah (Trở lại Methuselah, 1921), kịch
  • Saint Joan (Nữ thánh Joan, 1923), kịch
  • The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism (Cẩm nang về chủ nghĩa xã hội và chủ nghĩa tư bản dành cho phụ nữ, 1928), tiểu thuyết tường thuật
  • The Apple Cart (Xe chở táo, 1929), kịch
  • Too True To Be Good (Xấu nhưng là sự thật, 1931), kịch
  • On the Rocks (Mắc cạn, 1933), kịch
  • Millionainess (Nữ triệu phú, 1936), hài kịch
  • Buoyant Billions (Bạc tỉ của Buoyant, 1946-1948), kịch
  • Shakes versus Shaw (Shakes chống lại Shaw, 1949), kịch
  • Farfetched fables (Những truyện ngụ ngôn khó tin, 1950), kịch
An Unsocial Socialist

An Unsocial Socialist

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Unsocial Socialist was published in 1887, having been written in 1883. The tale begins with a humorous description of student antics at a girl's school then changes focus to a seemingly uncouth laborer who, it soon develops, is really a wealthy gentleman in hiding from his overly affectionate wife. He needs the freedom gained by matrimonial truancy to promote the socialistic cause, to which...
Androcles and the Lion

Androcles and the Lion

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Androcles and the Lion is a 1912 play written by George Bernard Shaw. The play is Shaw's retelling of the tale of Androcles, a slave who is saved by the requited mercy of a lion. In the play, Shaw portrays Androcles to be one of the many Christians being led to the Colosseum for torture. Characters in the play exemplify several themes and takes on both modern...
Arms and the Man

Arms and the Man

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Arms and the Man is a comedy by George Bernard Shaw, whose title comes from the opening words of Virgil's Aeneid in Latin:Arma virumque cano ("Arms and the man I sing"). The play was first produced on April 21, 1894 at the Avenue Theatre, and published in 1898 as part of Shaw's Plays Pleasantvolume, which also included Candida, You...
Augustus Does His Bit: A True-to-Life Farce

Augustus Does His Bit: A True-to-Life Farce

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Augustus Does His Bit, A True to Life Farce (1916) is a comic one-act play by George Bernard Shaw about a dim-witted aristocrat who is outwitted by a female spy during World War I.  In the small town of Little Pifflington, Lord Augustus Highcastle tells his secretary Horatio Beamish that the war is a very serious matter, especially as he has three German brothers-in-law....
Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch

Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch

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Back to Methuselah (A Metabiological Pentateuch) by George Bernard Shaw consists of a preface (An Infidel Half Century) and a series of five plays: In the Beginning: B.C. 4004 (In the Garden of Eden), The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas: Present Day, The Thing Happens: A.D. 2170, Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman: A.D. 3000, and As Far as Thought Can Reach:...
Caesar and Cleopatra

Caesar and Cleopatra

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The play has a prologue and an "Alternative to the Prologue". The prologue consists of the Egyptian god Ra addressing the audience directly, as if he could see them in the theater (i.e., breaking the fourth wall). He says that Pompey represents the old Rome and Caesar represents the new Rome. The gods favored Caesar, according to Ra, because he "lived the life they had...
Candida

Candida

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Candida, a comedy by playwright George Bernard Shaw, was written in 1894 and first published in 1898, as part of his Plays Pleasant. The central characters are clergyman James Morell, his wife Candida and a youthful poet, Eugene Marchbanks, who tries to win Candida's affections. The play questions Victorian notions of love and marriage, asking what a woman really...
Captain Brassbound's Conversion

Captain Brassbound's Conversion

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Captain Brassbound's Conversion (1900) is a play by G. Bernard Shaw. It was published in Shaw's 1901 collection Three Plays for Puritans (together with Caesar and Cleopatra and The Devil's Disciple). The first American production of the play starred Ellen Terry in 1907. The play explores the relationship between the law, justice, revenge and...
Cashel Byron's Profession

Cashel Byron's Profession

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Cashel Byron's Profession is George Bernard Shaw's fourth novel. The novel was written in 1882 and after rejection by several publishers it was published in serialized form in a socialist magazine. The novel was later published as a book in England and the United States. Shaw wrote five novels early in his career and then abandoned them to pursue politics, drama criticism...
Fanny's First Play

Fanny's First Play

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Fanny's First Play is a 1911 play by George Bernard Shaw. It was first performed as an anonymous piece, the authorship of which was to be kept secret. However, critics soon recognised it as the work of Shaw. It opened at the Adelphi Theatre at Westminster in London on 19 April 1911 and ran for 622 performances. The mystery over the authorship helped to publicise it....
Getting Married

Getting Married

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Getting Married is a play by George Bernard Shaw. First performed in 1908, it features a cast of family members who gather together for a marriage. The play analyses and satirises the status of marriage in Shaw's day, with a particular focus on the necessity of liberalising divorce laws.  1908: Edith, youngest daughter of Bishop Bridgenorth, is about to be married. Her...
Great Catherine (Whom Glory Still Adores)

Great Catherine (Whom Glory Still Adores)

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Great Catherine: Whom Glory Still Adores is a 1913 one-act play by Irish dramatist George Bernard Shaw. It was written between two of his other 1913 plays, Pygmalion and The Music Cure. It tells the story of a prim British visitor to the court of the sexually uninhibited Catherine the Great of Russia. The plot focuses on Captain Charles Edstaston, a...
Heartbreak House

Heartbreak House

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Ellie Dunn, her father, and her fiancé are invited to one of Hesione Hushabye’s infamous dinner parties, to be held at the house of her father, the eccentric Captain Shotover, an inventor in his late 80s who is trying to create a "psychic ray" that will destroy dynamite. The house is built in the shape of the stern of a ship. Lady Utterword, Shotover's other daughter, arrives from...
How He Lied to Her Husband

How He Lied to Her Husband

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How He Lied to Her Husband is a one-act comedy play by George Bernard Shaw, who wrote it, at the request of actor Arnold Daly, over a period of four days while he was vacationing in Scotland in 1904. In its preface he described it as "a sample of what can be done with even the most hackneyed stage framework by filling it in with an observed touch of...
John Bull's Other Island

John Bull's Other Island

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John Bull's Other Island is a comedy about Ireland, written by George Bernard Shaw in 1904. Shaw himself was born in Dublin, yet this is one of only two plays of his where he thematically returned to his homeland, the other being O'Flaherty V.C.. The play was highly successful in its day, but is rarely revived, probably because of so much of the dialogue is...
Major Barbara

Major Barbara

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Major Barbara is a three act play by George Bernard Shaw, written and premiered in 1905 and first published in1907. The story involves an idealistic young woman, Barbara Undershaft, who is engaged in helping the poor as an official (a Major) in the Salvation Army in London. For many years Barbara and her siblings have been estranged from their father, Andrew Undershaft, who...
Man and Superman

Man and Superman

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Man and Superman is a four-act drama written by George Bernard Shaw in 1903. The series was written in response to calls for Shaw to write a play based on the Don Juantheme. Man and Superman opened at The Royal Court Theatre in London on 23 May 1905, but omitted the 3rd Act. A part of the act, Don Juan in Hell (Act 3, Scene 2), was performed when the drama was staged on 4 June 1907 at the Royal...
Maxims for Revolutionists

Maxims for Revolutionists

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Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good. Do not love your neighbor as yourself. If you are on good terms with yourself it is an impertinence: if on bad, an injury. The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
Misalliance

Misalliance

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Misalliance is a play written in 1909–1910 by George Bernard Shaw. The play takes place entirely on a single Saturday afternoon in the conservatory of a large country house in Hindhead, Surrey in Edwardian era England.  It is a continuation of some of the ideas on marriage that he expressed in 1908 in his play, Getting Married. It was...
Mrs. Warren's Profession

Mrs. Warren's Profession

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Mrs. Warren's Profession is a play written by George Bernard Shaw in 1893, and first performed in London in 1902. The title refers to prostitution. The story centres on the relationship between Mrs Kitty Warren and her daughter, Vivie. Mrs. Warren, a former prostitute and current brothel owner, is described as "on the whole, a genial and fairly presentable old blackguard of a woman." Vivie, an...

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