Born in Dublin in 1856, George Bernard Shaw has the distinction of being the only person to have won both a Nobel Prize (for Literature in 1925) and an Academy Award (for his screenplay adaptation of 1938's 'Pygmalion'). His plays are the most widely produced in English language theatre after Shakespeare. A politically active socialist, dedicated vegetarian and a scathing wit he wrote five unpublished novels and worked as a drama critic before finding his true vocation as a playwright, alongside contemporaries such as Oscar Wilde, G.K. Chesterton and H.G. Wells.
"If you have an apple and I have an apple, and we exchange apples, we both still only have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea, and we exchange ideas, we each now have two ideas." - George Bernard Shaw
First produced for the stage in 1894, 'Arms and the Man' established Shaw's reputation as one of London's great wits. Helena Bonham Carter is Raina,... Read more
This collection of BBC adaptations brings to life the memorable characterizations, brilliant command of language, and dazzling wit of Bernard Shaw's c... Read more
Bernard Shaw sits among the great playwrights of the English language; this collection brings together five of his classic plays as adapted by the BBC... Read more
George Bernard Shaw's exuberantly witty play about Rome's titanic leader and Egypt's young queen was transferred to the big screen with stars Vivien L... Read more
Shaw's passionate response to World War I was this rollicking romp through the minefields of romantic entanglement. Captain Shotover (John Gielgud) i... Read more
Written in 1893, though not performed until 1902 due to government censorship 'Mrs Warren's Profession' scandalized Victorian England. This BBC produ... Read more
Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's musical variation of Shaw's 'Pygmalion' is an intellectual comedy of manners from expert director George Cukor.... Read more
George Bernard Shaw wrote the Academy Award-winning screenplay for this adaptation of his comedy which later became 'My Fair Lady'. Leslie Howard is P... Read more
Perhaps Shaw's most well-known play, 'Pygmalion' stars Lynn Redgrave in the Eliza Doolittle role being taught her Ps & Qs by professor Henry Higgins.... Read more
Patrick Stewart and Ian Richardson star in this George Bernard Shaw adaptation from the BBC. Set in New Hampshire in 1777, Dick Dudgeon's father has... Read more