Poetcrit

Current Volume: 37 (2024 )

ISSN: 0970-2830

Periodicity: Half-Yearly

Month(s) of Publication: January & July

Subject: Language & Literature

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/POET

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Social Issues Portrayed in the Plays of G. B. Shaw

By : Sushil Kumar Mishra

Page No: 59-63

Abstract
George Bernard Shaw is regarded as the greatest English dramatist of the modern age. His contribution to British theatre is considered second only to that of William Shakespeare. By rejecting outmoded theatrical conventions and championing realism and social commentary in his work. Shaw succeeded in revolutionizing British drama. He has been credited with creating “the theatre of ideas” in which his plays explore such issues as sexism, sexual equality, socioeconomic divisions, and the effects of poverty, philosophical and religious theories. He was awarded with Nobel Prize for literature in 1925 for writing his masterpiece Saint Joan. He continued to be a prolific playwright, an essayist, a social and political commentator and socialist activist. Shaw’s major dramatic works are infused with his social, economic and political concerns, particularly his criticism of the inequalities and injustices of late Victorian capitalism. He is also credited with creating the serious farce, a dramatic genre that inverts melodramatic conventions and utilizes comedy to promote serious views on public policy, social institutions and morality.

Author :
Sushil Kumar Mishra
(Writer of Thirteen books), Associate Professor and Head, Department of English, SRM University, Delhi-NCR, Sonepat, Haryana.
 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/POET.2019.33.01.8

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