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In this video, learn about the work of the Irish playwright, george Bernard Shaw.

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By the 1930’s George Bernard Shaw was revealed as an eldest statesman of literature and beloved by the British people. On his 88th birthday in 1936 an appreciative crowd enjoyed his antiques at the ceremony of tree planting. George Shaw: Ladies and gentlemen, before I plant the tree I think I shall talk on it. It’s very difficult for me to know exactly where are my audience is. Yes, now a gentleman. I don’t feel that I am to face this way because this gentleman who are operating. They of course go to their own side. They always do. Even in his 80s George had no signs of slowing down. In his memoirs, politician J. R. Clynes described him as a brilliant speaker and provocative writer. Shaw used both talents to put forward his revolutionary ideas for a sort of change. Noted Fabian Beatrice Webb called him brilliant talker and the delightful companion. While his drawing Irish with one or some people over in any of the writers it was said that when he campaigned for the labor party he would fill every hole and lose score adverse. George Shaw: I am in the second difficulty about it because it is pretty obvious to all of you that he is already traveling. Shaw face growing a criticism for his search and his beliefs but then he would come to class with Joy he considered his political aims so first when he died by her aim. He often and visit the chamber and returned a firm supporter of Stalin and is missing to him towards her family and exploitation. A prolific correspondent, Shaw wrote more than 250,000 ledgers during his lifetime with friends just like actress and Ellen Terry, boxer Gene Tunney and writer and fellow political adjudicator H.G. Wells. His country house and half of chair shown his corner provided the perfect retreat for writing. The villa was built in the distinctive ups and crafts style and was his home for more than 40 years. The garden was the joy of Shaw’s life and included in the area set aside for sure to chop wood. While he had no interest in the plants that grew there, Shaw loves to take his exercise around the rumbling ground. His goodness remembered scene showing his wife Charlotte walking around the garden and deep in conversation, putting down stones to mark when they’ve walk a mile. Charlotte’s summer house was converted in to a writing country shore that revolved to cast the sun. It was build with coasters that fitted on a circular track, the hard headed electricity and even telephone connection to the house. Shaw wrote many of his major works there including “Man and Superman” and “Pygmalion”. After Charlotte’s death in 1943, Shaw gave up the London flat and retreat to Shaw’s Corner apparently. He loved tending to the grounds and his death at the age of 94 was caused by a fall from a ladder while pruning a tree. Julian Dryden and Edith Nesbit some shore of dust. He is a clever writer and speaker He’s the grossest flatterer I've ever met. He’s horribly untrustworthy as he repeats everything he hears and does not stick to the truth and is very plain like a long corpse with a dead white face – sandy sleek hair and a loathsome small straggly beard and yet is one of the most fascinating men I’ve ever met.