George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1912) and Saint Joan(1923). With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1890s
Full-length plays
- Widowers' Houses
- The Philanderer
- Mrs Warren's Profession
- Arms and the Man
- Candida
- You Never Can Tell
- The Devil's Disciple
- Caesar and Cleopatra
- Captain Brassbound's Conversion
1900–1909
Full-length plays
- Man and Superman
- John Bull's Other Island
- Major Barbara
- The Doctor's Dilemma
- Getting Married
- Misalliance
Short plays
- The Admirable Bashville
- How He Lied to Her Husband
- Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction
- The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet
- Press Cuttings
- The Fascinating Foundling
- The Glimpse of Reality
1910–1919
Full–length plays
- Fanny's First Play
- Androcles and the Lion
- Pygmalion
- Heartbreak House
Short plays
- The Dark Lady of the Sonnets
- Overruled
- The Music Cure
- Great Catherine
- The Inca of Perusalem
- O'Flaherty V.C.
- Augustus Does His Bit
- Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress
1920–1950
Full length plays
- Back to Methuselah
- Saint Joan
- The Apple Cart
- Too True to Be Good
- On the Rocks
- The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles
- The Millionairess
- Geneva
- In Good King Charles's Golden Days
- Buoyant Billions
Short plays
- A Village Wooing
- The Six of Calais
- Cymbeline Refinished
- Farfetched Fables
- Shakes versus Shav
- Why She Would Not
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