ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Throughout Shaw’s professional Ufe as a critic, he devoted a great deal of his writings to analyze and decipher Ibsen’s plays for British audiences. Shaw wrote three sets of critical essays on Ibsen: The Quintessence oflbsenism, Our Theatres in the Nineties, and The Prefaces.

Detailed explanation-2: -George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond.

Detailed explanation-3: -“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” “Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.” “I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.”

Detailed explanation-4: -Shaw was an iconoclast who attacked the romantic notions of war and love. Toward the middle of the nineteenth century, there can be traced a significant development from romantic and historical themes to more realistic themes, and this movement toward realism received considerable impetus.