George Bernard Shaw: Quick Facts

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Born	July 26, 1856 • Dublin • Ireland
Died	November 2, 1950 (aged 94) • Hertfordshire • England
Awards And Honors	Academy Award (1939) • Nobel Prize (1925)
Notable Works	“Androcles and the Lion” • “Arms and the Man” • “Back to Methuselah” • “Caesar and Cleopatra” • “Candida” • “Captain Brassbound’s Conversion” • “Heartbreak House” • “John Bull’s Other Island” • “Major Barbara” • “Man and Superman” • “Mrs. Warren’s Profession” • “Plays, Pleasant and Unpleasant” • “Pygmalion” • “Saint Joan” • “The Apple Cart” • “The Devil’s Disciple” • “The Doctor’s Dilemma” • “Three Plays for Puritans” • “Too True to Be Good” • “Widowers’ Houses”
Role In	Fabianism