About the book: year / The largest English playwright of the late 19th - first half of the 20th centuries. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) in his works appears as a master of intellectual discussion drama, built on sharp dialogues, full of paradoxical situations, destroying all traditional ideas about theater. His plays castigate political reaction, normative morality, hypocrisy, and hypocrisy. In 1925, the writer was awarded the Nobel Prize.