Sunday 9 June 2019

TWELVE BEST POINTS ON THE WORKS OF GEORGE BERNARD SHAW



1.      George Bernard shaw was primarily a Dramatist. He wrote FIVE novels.

2.       His plays are known as PLAYS OF IDEAS.

3.       He was awarded Nobel prize for literature in 1925.

4.       IMMATURITY is the first novel written by Shaw.

5.       HOW HE LIED TO HER HUSBAND was the first play of shaw to be filmed.

6.       Shaw refinished CYMBELINE one of the plays of Shakespeare.

7.       LOVE OF MUSIC is the central theme of the play THE APPLE CART by shaw

8.       MY FAIR LADY is the film version of shaw’s PYGMALION.

9.       PHONETICS AND PRONUNCIATION is the basic theme of  shaw’s play PYGMALION

10.   AN UN SOCIAL SOCIALIST is the last novel written by G.B. Shaw.

11.   Shaw’s THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS is a one- act play.

12.   George Bernad Shaw opposed the theory of ART FOR ART’S SAKE – “”For art’s sake alone I would not face the toil of writing a single sentence.””

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