Cambridge, was bored with his lot, or perhaps he wanted to wake us up. But there he was, hammering Shaw’s iconic reputation as we looked up in astonishment from our dutifully thumbed pages of Saint ...

On the crank medical theories of George Bernard Shaw. The first writer whose prose style I ever admired was Bernard Shaw. I was between eleven and twelve years old at the time, and did not arrive at ...

In his latest installment of The Literati, Edward Sorel illustrates the epic battle for control of the Fabian Society, an elite group of socialists, at the turn of the last century. By Edward Sorel ...

George Bernard Shaw lived to be 94, dying 70 years ago, in 1950, and was for several decades, along with H. G. Wells, the most influential writer in the world, winning the Nobel Prize for Literature ...

George Bernard Shaw is about to make a comeback in Canadian high schools. Roughly 800,000 students across Ontario will have access to a collection of resources on two plays by the Nobel Prize winner — ...

THE publishers of this book describe it as the “most Boswellian biography since Boswell’s Johnson.” That is an exaggeration; it contains only a few recorded conversations and its chief resemblance to ...

As Valentine’s Day 2026 rekindles conversations about romance, the love letters of George Bernard Shaw and Stella Campbell ...

Best known for “Pygmalion,” George Bernard Shaw understood the power of laughter. Of his 65 plays, guess how many were comedies? Five? Ten? Twenty? No, 65. Shaw used humor to comment on, among other ...

Tales of government corruption will take center stage in the Classical Theatre Company's 2017-18 season, announced Monday, featuring Henrik Ibsen's "An Enemy of the People" and Nikolai Gogol's "The ...

LONDON — Dame Wendy Hiller, one of Britain’s finest actresses and George Bernard Shaw’s chosen leading lady, has died. She was 90. Hiller, who had a 50-year career as a stage star and Oscar-winning ...