The Life and Career of George Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw was an iconoclastic writer and speaker who embraced many topics that his colleagues had not yet dared to embrace. He is considered the best and most significant playwright since William Shakespeare. His life and career focused primarily on social reform. Bernardo was born on July 26, 1856 in Dublin, Ireland. His parents were mother Lucinda Elizabeth Garly and father George Carr Shaw. His father and grandfather were both alcoholics. His mother was from Carlow. She was musically gifted and taught singing and music lessons (Kunitz 1268). Bernard was the third and youngest brother in his family. He had two older sisters (Weintraub 655). Bernard's father and grandfather's alcoholism caused Bernard to hate both alcohol and tobacco. His abstention from drugs also led him to be a vegetarian, an animal rights activist, and to be against the use of medical vaccinations (Kunitz 1268). During Bernard's adolescence, his uncle tutored him. He attended many different schools from time to time, but his true education is said to have come from his mother's love of music, art, and theater (Kunitz 1268). When he was still a teenager, Bernard's mother left his father. She moved to London to further pursue a music career, although all she did was teach music. She brought Bernard's sisters with her, and Bernard followed her a few years later (Kunitz 1268). In London, he, his mother, and his sisters were poverty-stricken for the next ten years, until he began earning money as a theater critic in a London newspaper (Kunitz 1268). At the age of fifteen, while still living in Ireland, Bernard began an apprenticeship with a real estate company (Kunitz 1268). It began... in the middle of the paper... 01, Caesar and Cleopatra- 1901, Captain Brassbound's Conversation- 1901, Man and Superman- 1903, John Bull's Other Island- 1907, Major Barbara- 1907 , The Doctor's Dilemma - 1911, The Revelation of Blanco Posnet - 1911, Getting Married - 1911, Misalliance - 1914, Fanny's First Comedy - 1914, Overruled - 1916, Androcles and the Lion - 1916, Pygmalion - 1916, Heartbreak House - 1919, Return to Methuselah- 1921, Saint Joan of Arc- 1924, The Apple Cart- 1930, Farfetched Fables- 1951, Shakes versus Shav- 1951, Why She Wouldn't- 1956Bibliography: Works Cited Batson, Eric J. "Bernard Shaw." Encyclopedia of world authors. 1958 ed. 964-968. Kunitz, Stanley J, and Howard Haycraft. "Shaw, George Bernard." Authors of the twentieth century. 6th ed. 1966. 1268-1270.Weintraub, Stanley. "Shaw, George Bernard." Encyclopedia Britannica. 1977 ed. vol. 16: 655-659.