LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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Arms and the man
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The doctor’s dilemma
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Man of destiny
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Philanderer
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Detailed explanation-1: -Shaw’s most financially successful work, Pygmalion, was adapted into the popular Broadway musical My Fair Lady. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925.
Detailed explanation-2: -With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Detailed explanation-3: -Shaw is one of only two people to have won both an Academy Award and a Nobel Prize for Literature. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1925; the committee said that his work was “marked by both idealism and humanity, its stimulating satire often being infused with a singular poetic beauty”.
Detailed explanation-4: -George Bernard Shaw therefore received his Nobel Prize for 1925 one year later, in 1926.
Detailed explanation-5: -Arms and the Man is a comedy by George Bernard Shaw, whose title comes from the opening words of Virgil’s Aeneid, in Latin: Arma virumque cano ("Of arms and the man I sing").