George Bernard Shaw完整版.ppt

Contents Life Characteristics His works His main works Comments Life He was born in Dublin, Ireland. At 14 he graduating from school. At 20 he went to London where he remained jobless for 9 years, to self-education . His education was irregular, due to his dislike of any organized training. In 1925 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. In 1938,Academy Award for Best Writing. In 1931,he visited China and was warmly received by the Chinese people, represented by Lu Xun and others. In 1950 he died.(94years old) Characteristics Structurally and thematically ,Shaw followed the great traditions of realism. As a realistic dramatist, he took the modern social issues as his subjects with termed as social problem plays. One feature of Shaw characterization is that he makes the trick of showing one character vividly at the expense of another. Usually he would take an unconventional character , a person with the gift of insight and freedom Another feature is that Shaw’s characters are the representatives of ideas ,points of view, that shift and alter during the play ,for Mr. Shaw is primarily interested in doctrines. Shaw’s plays have plots ,but they do not work by plots. The plot is usually the disregarded backbone to one long, unbroken conversation .It is the vitality of the talk that takes primacy over mere story. His works Shaw wrote five novels in all the best of which is Cashel Byron’s Profession （1886），which is about a world-famous prize fighter marrying a priggishly refined lady of property. His criticism is entitled Our Theaters in the Nineties （1931） In his long dramatic career， Shaw wrote more than 50 plays of a variety of subjects. Widowers Houses (1892) 《鳏夫的房产》 Mrs. Warren’s Profession 《华伦夫人的职业》 Caesar and Cleopatra (1898)《凯萨与克丽奥佩拉》 Man and Superman (1903) 《人与超人》 Major Barbara (1905) 《巴巴拉少校》 Pygmalion (1912) 《卖花女》 Heartbreak House (1917) 《伤心之家》 Saint Joan (1923) 《圣女贞德》 The Apple Cart (1929) 《苹果车》 Comment Shaw is a c