1 Shaw joined the Fabian Society
2 His criticism was witty, biting, and often brilliant
3 He was strongly against the credo of “ art for art’s sake”
4 Shaw wrote more than 50 plays, touching up variety of subjects.
Widow’s House is a grotesquely realistic exposure of slum landlordism” Mrs Warren’s Professor is a play about the economic oppression of women.
5 Structurally and thematically, Shaw followed the great traditions of realism.
6 Most of his plays are concerned with political , economic, moral, or religious, problems, and, thus, can be termed as problem plays. And his plays have one passion, and only one, i.e. indignation..
George Bernard Shaw/乔治·萧伯纳作者简介