Lec 14

• Who was born in Ireland but spent most of his long adult life in England?

  George Bernard Shaw
• The Shadow of a Gunman (1923) is set at the time of the Irish War of Independence
• is also concerned to show the realities of everyday life for ordinary people?

  Arnold wesker
• Oscar Wilde work has had great effect on several writers in the twentieth
• Waiting for Godot (1954) is one of the most influential works in English of this century.
• George Bernard Shaw enjoyed the shock and offence this often produced, particularly when his ideas were expressed with much wit
• One of these loose groupings relates to the attempt to show on stage some parts of the daily lives of?

  ordinary people
• Why is Pygmalion (1912) is particularly well known?

  because it was the basis for the musical play and film
• A second area of concern in twentieth-century English drama is that of the individual’s search for ………………. in an unfriendly outside world, and the difficulty and fear of communicating with other individuals?

  Identity
• Who was born in Ireland but has spent most of his adult life in France?

  Samuel Beckett