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a Welsh
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an Irishman
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a Soctsman
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an Englishman
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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: -Biography. George Bernard Shaw was born on July 26 1856 in Dublin Ireland the son of a civil servant. Although he was best known for drama, he was also proficient in the areas of journalism, music and literary criticism. He began his literary career as a novelist.
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: -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.