George Bernard Shaw

The playwright, novelist, essayist and Nobel Prize winner Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) is one of the towering figures of twentieth-century literature, with masterpieces such as Man and Superman, Pygmalion and Saint Joan among his most enduringly popular works.

Shaw spoke at the Whitefriars Club on 16th February 1906 on the topic of ‘Should Theatres be Municipalised?’ He returned to the club on 29th October 1920, delivering a speech on ‘The Dictatorship of the Proletariat’.