Pygmalion

AUTHOR

Son on a Protestant family, Bernard Shaw had an irregular education, receiving private lessons from his uncle.
When he was 16 years old, his parents divorced and his mother and his sister went to live in London. He stayed with his father in Dublin and went to work in an office. With the desire to become a writer, also moved to London in 1876.
Bernard Shaw wrote five novels (the first on titled “Immaturity”), without publishing them. Became involved with politics, and in doing rallies, developed an energetic speech, perceived in their texts.
With Beatrice and Sidney Webb founded the Fabian Society, an organization dedicated to transforming Britain into a socialist state through progressive legislation, based on the education of the masses.
Shaw lectured and wrote pamphlets. Alongside Shaw worked as an art critic and music critic and later as a theater critic for the “Saturday Review”.
In 1897, he wrote his first play, “The Widower’s Houses”. Over the years, he produced more than a dozen pieces, though few London theaters wanted to produce them. At this time, “Arms and The Man” and “Mrs. Warren´s Profession”.
In 1898, after an illness, Shaw retired as theater critic and married Charlotte Payne-Townsend, an Irish possession. The marriage lasted until Charlotte’s death in 1943.
In 1912, he wrote “Pygmalion”, which would become the musical “My Fair Lady”.
The writer remained active in the Fabian Society, the city government and on committees to eliminate the severity of censorship in playwriting and found a subsidized national theater.
The beginning of the war in 1914, accounted for Shaw, the fall of the capitalist system and a tragic waste of young lives. The writer went on to express their opinions in a newspaper column entitled “Consensus about the War”. These articles turned into a disaster for the image of Shaw, now being treated as a stateless and even a traitor.
Shaw wrote only a single large piece during times of war. “Heartbreak House” in