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Definition of George Bernard Shaw
1. Noun. British playwright (born in Ireland); founder of the Fabian Society (1856-1950).
Generic synonyms: Dramatist, Playwright, Author, Writer
Derivative terms: Shavian
Lexicographical Neighbors of George Bernard Shaw
Literary usage of George Bernard Shaw
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Writing of Today: Models of Journalistic Prose by John William Cunliffe, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1915)
"Such VII useful, and certainly less hackneyed, than a schedule will at any rate
be found more George Bernard Shaw 25 one who has been more often ..."
2. A Short History of the English Drama by Benjamin Griffith Brawley (1921)
"George Bernard Shaw.—Quite as representative as Pinero and Jones of the age in which
... Any attempt at the interpretation of George Bernard Shaw, however, ..."
3. Authors and I by Charles Lewis Hind (1921)
"George Bernard Shaw TO me a new volume of "Plays with Prefaces," by George ...
It was "Man and Superman," by George Bernard Shaw. The house was packed, ..."
4. The Contemporary Drama of England by Thomas Herbert Dickinson (1917)
"CHAPTER X George Bernard Shaw No man in the modern English theatre has been
subjected to so much confused thinking as George Bernard Shaw. ..."
5. Essays on Modern Dramatists by William Lyon Phelps (1921)
"George Bernard Shaw Although Ireland has never contributed to English Literature
a poet of the first rank, to English prose in general and to the drama in ..."
6. European Theories of the Drama: An Anthology of Dramatic Theory and by Barrett Harper Clark (1918)
"On Shaw and his works: Archibald Henderson, George Bernard Shaw, Hit Life and
Work» (Cincinnati, 1911). GK Chesterton, George Bernard Shaw (New York, 1909). ..."
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