George Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House" - A Fantasia In The Russian Manner On English Themes

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of British socialism. His work with and for
the Fabian Society continued until the end of his life, during which period
he wrote a number of important socialist articles, such as the anti-war
pamphlet �Common sense about the war' in 1914 and the �Woman's guide to
Socialism and Capitalism' in 1928.
Between 1885 and 1898 he wrote many critical reviews on literature,
art and music for a number of important magazines. During this period he
started writing his first play, �Widowers' Houses', inspired by the plays
of the Norwegian playwright Hendrik Ibsen, whose social awareness and
nonconformism appealed more to Shaw than the fashionable hypocritical drama
of those days. In 1893 followed �The Philanderer', Mrs. Warren's
Profession (1893), and �Candida' (1895), all published together in a
collection of plays called �Plays Pleasant' and �Plays Unpleasant' in 1898,
the year Shaw married Charlotte Payne-Townshend.
Shaw's second period started in 1898 and lasted until 1939. ...

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