ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -George Bernard Shaw, (born July 26, 1856, Dublin, Ireland-died November 2, 1950, Ayot St. Lawrence, Hertfordshire, England), Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, and socialist propagandist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925.

Detailed explanation-2: -T.S. Eliot was the main dramatist who gave importance to poetic plays and was the realistic prose drama of the modern drama. Stephen Phillips, John Drink Water, Yeats, etc were from those who wrote poetic plays.

Detailed explanation-3: -Summary. Depending on what standards are chosen, Shaw is either the quintessential modernist or a relic of Victorianism who outlived his time by more than half a century.

Detailed explanation-4: -G.B. Shaw as a Dramatist The ideas he used for writing his plays were genuine, important and ingenious. Shaw’s comedies present a fearless intellectual criticism of his age. But he made it as a sugar-coated pill by a pretended lightness of tone. Shaw’s primary aim in his dramas was bettering of the lot of humanity.

Detailed explanation-5: -His work introduced the theater of ideas to the English stage; where Ibsen turned melodrama into naturalism, Shaw parodied melodrama in order to develop an intellectual comedy of manners. Like Wilde, Shaw took hypocrisy as one of his major themes.