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    Annajanska: "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
    Annajanska: "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
    Annajanska: "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
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    Annajanska: "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."

    By George Bernard Shaw

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    George Bernard Shaw was born on July 26th, 1856 in Synge Street, Dublin. His career began modestly initially working for some years in an Estate office but a thirst for reading and knowledge moved his career to writing several novels, none of which were published for several years. He wrote as a critic for several years, mainly on the theatre where his campaigning helped moved Victorian theatre towards a more realistic form. Shaw also took up his fervent socialist views at this point, a cause he would be indelibly linked with throughout his long and productive life. An initial foray into writing a play in 1885 only came to fruition in 1892 and with it his path as one of the leading playwrights of the 20th century was set. Shaw was also a fervent Fabian and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Saint Joan in 1923 gained Shaw yet another international success. This led in 1925 to his being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his contributions to literature. The citation praised his work as "... marked by both idealism and humanity, its stimulating satire often being infused with a singular poetic beauty". In 1938 he added an Academy Award for his work on Pygmalion. Shaw remains the only person ever to win a Nobel Prize and an Oscar. He refused all other awards, even a knighthood. George Bernard Shaw died on November 2nd, 1950 at the age of 94, of renal failure precipitated by injuries incurred by a fall whilst pruning a tree.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCopyright Group
    Release dateAug 12, 2015
    ISBN9781785433061
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      Annajanska - George Bernard Shaw

      Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress by George Bernard Shaw

      George Bernard Shaw was born on July 26th, 1856 in Synge Street, Dublin.

      His career began modestly initially working for some years in an Estate office but a thirst for reading and knowledge moved his career to writing several novels, none of which were published for several years.

      He wrote as a critic for several years, mainly on the theatre where his campaigning helped moved Victorian theatre towards a more realistic form.

      Shaw also took up his fervent socialist views at this point, a cause he would be indelibly linked with throughout his long and productive life.

      An initial foray into writing a play in 1885 only came to fruition in 1892 and with it his path as one of the leading playwrights of the 20th century was set.

      Shaw was also a fervent Fabian and a co-founder of the London School of Economics.

      Saint Joan in 1923 gained Shaw yet another international success.  This led in 1925 to his being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his contributions to literature. The citation praised his work as ... marked by both idealism and humanity, its stimulating satire often being infused with a singular poetic beauty.

      In 1938 he added an Academy Award for his work on Pygmalion.  Shaw remains the only person ever to win a Nobel Prize and an Oscar.  He refused all other awards, even a knighthood.

      George Bernard Shaw died on November 2nd, 1950 at the age of 94, of renal failure precipitated by injuries incurred by a fall whilst pruning a tree.

      Index of Contents

      Introduction

      Annajanska, The Bolshevik Empress

      George Bernard Shaw – A Short Biography

      George Bernard Shaw – A Concise Bibliography

      INTRODUCTION

      Annajanska is frankly a bravura piece. The modern variety theatre demands for its turns little plays called sketches, to last twenty minutes or so, and to enable some favourite performer to make a brief but dazzling appearance on some barely passable dramatic pretext. Miss Lillah McCarthy and I, as author and actress, have helped to make one another famous on many serious occasions, from Man and Superman to Androcles; and Mr Charles Ricketts has not disdained to snatch moments from his painting and sculpture to design some wonderful dresses for us. We three unbent as Mrs Siddons, Sir Joshua Reynolds and Dr Johnson might have unbent, to devise a turn for the Coliseum variety theatre. Not that we would set down the art of the variety theatre as something to be condescended to, or our own art as elephantine. We should rather crave indulgence as three novices fresh from

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