Shaw was a very witty satirist who loved to present people with the absurdity of their conventional way of thinking. His satires range widely over such subjects as heroism in war, physicians and their power over life and death, religion, the battle of the sexes, education, and heaven and hell. The prefaces to many of his plays, besides being examples of a wonderful prose style, are often funnier than the plays themselves. Among the plays to be read in the course:
Arms and the Man, Major Barbara, The Doctor’s Dilemma, Androcles and the Lion, Saint Joan, and
Man and Superman.
He is the
only person to have been awarded both a
Nobel Prize in Literature (1925) and an
Oscar (1938), for his contributions to literature and for his work on the film
Pygmalion (adaptation of his play
of the same name), respectively.
Rabindranath came to London on 23rd Dec,1930 and met George Bernard Shaw on 8th January while he was staying at Hyde Park Hotel.He discussed a lot with George Bernard Shaw on many subjects , started for India on 15th jan 1931 and reached India on 31st Jan 1931. He was seventy years old.
