00:00The Nobel Prize
00:13Life isn't about finding yourself, life is about creating yourself.
00:20George Bernard Shaw
00:23The Nobel Prize in Literature 1925 was awarded to George Bernard Shaw for his work which is marked by both idealism and humanity, its stimulating satire often being infused with a singular poetic beauty.
00:41George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin on July 26, 1856.
00:47His father, George K. Shaw, was in the wholesale grain trading business and his mother, Lucinda Elizabeth Shaw, was the daughter of an impoverished landowner.
00:59A young George led a distressed childhood. His alcoholic father remained drunk most of the time. It was due to this that Shaw abstained from alcohol throughout his lifetime.
01:13During the course of schooling, Shaw attended Wesleyan Connectional School, Dublin's Central Model School and Dublin English Scientific and Commercial Day School, where he ended his education.
01:27He first began working as a junior clerk at the age of 15. In 1876 Shaw went to live with his mother and sister in London. He did not return to Ireland for almost 30 years.
01:42Shaw turned to literature and began his career by writing theatre, criticism, music and novels, one of which was the semi-autobiographical Immaturity.
01:54However, his early efforts gained neither recognition nor success. From 1885 to 1911 Shaw served on the executive committee of the Fabian Society, a middle-class socialist group.
02:091895 onwards Shaw's work began appearing in significant publications. He wrote drama criticism for the Saturday Review. These pieces were later compiled in the collection Our Theaters in the 90s, published in 1932.
02:27In addition to being a drama critic, George Bernard Shaw also wrote criticism on music, drama and art in various publications.
02:36His criticism on music has been compiled in a number of collections such as Shaw's Music, appearing in 1881, The Perfect Wagnerite, 1898 and Caesar and Cleopatra, published in 1901.
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02:53George Bernard Shaw married Charlotte Payne Townshend in 1898.
02:59Charlotte was a wealthy woman from an upper-class background. The couple settled in Hertfordshire village of Eyart St. Lawrence in 1906.
03:10Although Shaw was occasionally linked with other women, he remained with Charlotte until her death.
03:17One of Shaw's known linkage to other women include a series of passionate correspondences with the widowed actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell.
03:27Most of Shaw's early plays described the problems of capitalism and explored existing moral and social problems.
03:36One of these plays is The Widower's Houses, 1892. Unfortunately, these early efforts were not very well received.
03:46Some later following works such as Candida and John Bull's Other Island 1904 and Major Barbara proved to be in better interest of Shaw.
03:58His much famous work, Pygmalion, was originally written for Mrs. Patrick Campbell.
04:05Pygmalion was later adapted into two films and a musical.
04:10In 1914 Shaw's popularity declined significantly when he wrote the essay Common Sense About the War, which was considered unpatriotic.
04:21However, he was accepted once again with the publication of St. John in 1924.
04:28An author to more than 50 plays, George Pennard Shaw, died on November 2, 1950, in Eyart St. Lawrence, Hertfordshire.
04:40The End of the Summer
04:49The End of the Summer
04:50There are two films and a few films and a few films and a few films and a few films and a few films, but nothing's seen on the report of the cooking film.
04:55And the hope of the traditional films and a few films and a few films and the films are now, which is the only film of VivianPI.
05:00The End of the Summer
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