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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
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...
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...
The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet

The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet

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The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet: A Sermon in Crude Melodrama is a one-act play by George Bernard Shaw, first produced in in 1909. Shaw describes the play as a religious tract in dramatic form. In 1909 Shaw jousted with governmental censorship, as personified by The Examiner Of Plays, an agency acting under the auspices of the Lord Chamberlain. The outcome, unsatisfactory to Shaw, is reviewed...
Pygmalion

Pygmalion

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Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological character. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1913.  Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess at an ambassador's garden party by teaching her to assume a...
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...
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...
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...
You Never Can Tell

You Never Can Tell

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The play is set in a seaside town and tells the story of Mrs Clandon and her three children, Dolly, Phillip and Gloria, who have just returned to England after an eighteen-year stay in Madeira.  The children have no idea who their father is and, through a comedy of errors, end up inviting him to a family lunch. At the same time a dentist named Valentine has fallen in love with the...
The Doctor's Dilemma

The Doctor's Dilemma

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The eponymous dilemma of the play is that of the newly honoured doctor Sir Colenso Ridgeon, who has developed a revolutionary new cure for tuberculosis. However, his private medical practice, with limited staff and resources, can only treat ten patients at a time. From a selection of fifty patients he has selected ten he believes he can cure and who, he believes, are most worthy of being saved....
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...
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...
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:...
The Devil's Disciple

The Devil's Disciple

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The Devil's Disciple is an 1897 play written by Irish dramatist George Bernard Shaw. The play is Shaw's eighth, and after Richard Mansfield's original 1897 American production it was his first financial success, which helped to affirm his career as a playwright. It was published in Shaw's 1901 collection Three Plays for Puritans together with Captain Brassbound's...
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...
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...
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...
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....
The Man of Destiny

The Man of Destiny

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The Man of Destiny is an 1897 play by George Bernard Shaw, set in Italy during the early career of Napoleon. It was published as a part of Plays Pleasant, which also included Arms and the Man, Candida and You Never Can Tell. Shaw titled the volume Plays Pleasant in order to contrast it with his first book of plays, Plays...
The Irrational Knot

The Irrational Knot

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This novel was written in the year 1880, only a few years after I had exported myself from Dublin to London in a condition of extreme rawness and inexperience concerning the specifically English side of the life with which the book pretends to deal. Everybody wrote novels then. It was my second attempt; and it shared the fate of my first. That is to say, nobody would publish it, though I tried...
The Philanderer

The Philanderer

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The Philanderer is a play by George Bernard Shaw. It was written in 1893 but the strict British Censorship laws at the time meant that it was not produced on stage until 1902. It is one of the three plays Shaw published as Plays Unpleasant in 1898, alongside Widowers' Houses and Mrs Warren's Profession. The volume was written to raise awareness of social...

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