George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist, critic and Fabian Size:XL: 120 x 80cm Oh Cruel Barbarian

Oh Cruel Barbarian

9th February 1967

Queen Caroline and Mrs Wood

In a career lasting until 1973

George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist, critic and Fabian Size:XL: 120 x 80cm Oh Cruel BarbarianGeorge Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist, critic and Fabian, 1893. The author of such well known works as Pygmalion and Saint Joan, Shaw (1856 1950) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925. A committed socialist, he also wrote numerous pamphlets on social and political issues, many of them published by the Fabian Society. From The Cabinet Portrait Gallery, fourth series, Cassell and Company Limited (London, Paris and Melbourne, 1893).