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1、2019-2020年高中英语Unit4PygmalionGeorgeBernardShaw素材新人教版选修8Irishdramatist,literarycritic,asocialistspokesman,andaleadingfigureinthe20thcenturytheater.Shawwasafreethinker,defenderofwomen'srights,andadvocateofequalityofine.In1925hewasawardedtheNobelPrizeforLiterature.Shawacceptedthehonorbutrefusedth
2、emoney.GeorgeBernardShawwasborninDublin,wherehegrewupinsomethingclosetogenteelpoverty."IamatypicalIrishman;myfamilycamefromYorkshire,"Shawoncesaid.Hisfather,GeorgeCarrShaw,wasinthewholesalegraintrade.LucindaElisabeth(Gurly)Shaw,hismother,wasthedaughterofanimpoverishedlandowner.Shewas16-yearsy
3、oungerthanherhusband.GeorgeCarrwasadrunkard-hisexamplepromptedhissontobeeateetotaller（滴酒不沾的人）.Whenhediedin1885,hischildrenandwifedidnotattendhisfuneral.YoungShawandhistwosisterswerebroughtupmostlybyservants.Amanofmanycauses,Shawsupportedabolitionofprivateproperty,radicalchangeinthevotingsyste
4、m,campaignedforthesimplificationofspelling,andthereformoftheEnglishalphabet.Asapublicspeaker,Shawgainedthestatusofoneofthemostsought-afteroratorsinEngland.In1895ShawbecameadramacriticfortheSaturdayReview.ArticleswrittenforthepaperwerelatercollectedinOURTHEATRESINTHENINETIES(1932).Music,art,an
5、ddramacriticismShawwroteforDramaticReview(1885-86),OurCorner(1885-86),ThePallMallGazette(1885-88),TheWorld(1886-94),andTheStar(1888-90)as'CornobiBasetto'.HismusiccriticismwerecollectedinSHAW'SMUSIC(1981).Afterlacingashoetootightly,anoperationwasperformedonhisfootfornecrosis;Shawwasunabletoput
6、hisfootonthegroundforeighteenmonths.DuringthisperiodhewroteCAESARANDCLEOPATRA(1901)andTHEPERFECTWAGNERITE(1898).TheNorwegianplaywrightHenrikIbsenhadagreatinfluenceonShaw'sthinking.ForasummermeetingoftheFabianSocietyin1890,hewroteTHEQUINTESSENCEOFIBSENISM(1891),inwhichheconsideredIbsenapioneer
7、,"whodeclaresthatitisrighttodosomethinghithertoregardedasinfamous."Shaw'searlyplays,WIDOWER'SHOUSES(1892),whichcriticizedslumlandlords,aswellasseveralsubsequentones,werenotwellreceived.His'unpleasantplays',ideologicalattacksontheevilsofcapita
