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 For Everything You Could Possibly Want to Know About GBS .  GBS 1856 to 1950 In his own words, Shaw said he was a writing machine. He wrote 65 plays & was an avid pamphleteer writing on such subjects as Drama, Women & Feminism, Stimulants, Vivisection, Natural Selection, Music, Marriage, Capital Punishment, The Soviet Union. The list is almost endless. We have chosen 15 of these Subjects for you to collect, on Info Subject page. Shaw took an active role in the productions of his plays & made sure that not a single word was added or taken out. He was adamant about each vowel being pronounced correctly & not forced. Apart from writing, Shaw loved to speak on the radio. The musical Irish tones perfectly exubing his daring wit. What the audience perceived as a joke, Shaw actually meant. He used comedy as a way of translating what he seriously thought about society & it worked. People of all social classes stood up & took note, many of them taking an active role to improve the social structure. Bernard Shaw was a sensative man who looked upon poverty & social injustice in disbelief. To Shaw, all living things, human or animal were equals & should be treated with equal respect. In his world all humans (men & women), (rich & poor), were equals & have the right to bring out the best in themselves, no matter what class you were born into. Even so long after his death in 1950 at the age of 94,Shaw's influnce is still with us & his contribution making it's way in our society. Patrons: Dame Diana Rigg Brian Cox Richard E Grant Jerry Hall Diane Uttley, President/Founder of the Information Web Site, is a Shaw Expert/Scholar/ Writer, was the Custodian of and lived at Shaw's home "Shaw's Corner" from 1989 to 1997. Diane Uttley, (GBS puppet by Waldo Lanchester)
 WILL THE REAL BERNARD SHAW STAND UP Those who new Bernard Shaw loved him for the honesty, goodness
& laughter he brought into their lives. He never failed to
capture the attentions of the heart. Shaw's aim is make people sit up &
think about the world they live in. To do this he found that by
making an audience laugh, he could get them to listen to him
intensely. The more he accentuated his features people would want
to know more about him. Hence "GBS", all white hair, fluffy beard
& long legs. "The Joker". But deep down he was not. In private
Shaw thought GBS was a monstrosity & hated the continual need to
play the fool. The highly intelligent writer felt he was
misunderstood because the real Shaw was kind, considerate, and counted all
living things as equals. He craved to be taken seriously and always lived in hope that one
day "GBS" would quietly disappear. This never happened. Towards the
end of his life the 94 year old genius begged to be left alone. He
was desperate to be plain Bernard Shaw. Against his wishes, we now study the work he left behind &
we slowly see the real man behind the image. The world would be a better place be it be that it gave us more
Bernard Shaw's. Diane Uttley |
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