theater. a freethinker, defender of women’s
rights, and advocate of equality of income.
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Born in Dublin in 1856 to a middle-class Protestant family.
He married Charlotte Payne-Townshend in 1898, but it is known that he never touched her once.
With wondrous art, he creates a beautiful statue in ivory, Galatea, representing feminine ideal.
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When Pygmalion returns home, he kisses his statue and is delighted to find that she is warm and soft to touch.
“The maiden felt the kisses, blushed and lifting her timid eyes up to the light, saw the sky and her lover at
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Literary Career and Achievements
the second greatest English playwright behind only Shakespeare
“a day never passes without a performance of some Shaw play being given somewhere in the world.”