Who is George Bernard Shaw from Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic and what is their importance? Brecht_on_Theatre:_The_Development_of_an_Aesthetic English & Literature George Bernard Shaw | Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic

Shaw was an Irish theatre critic and playwright whose plays were produced in England in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and is widely regarded as the second greatest English-speaking playwright after Shakespeare. An outspoken socialist and intellectual, Shaw used the theatre as a forum for expressing ideas about the human condition in a way that challenged traditional ways of viewing both the individual and the society in which s/he lived. This, writings in this collection would suggest, made him powerfully influential on Brecht.