Shaw
Anglo-Scottish family name
Shaw is a surname of English and Scottish origin, often derived from living near a small wood.
George Bernard Shaw, the Irish playwright, remains the most famous bearer: Have you read any Shaw?
The name appears in various combinations: Shaw Brothers, Artie Shaw. (Lowercase shaw is an archaic word for a thicket.)
Bernard
Traditional masculine given name
- GeorgeTraditional male name
- playwrightAuthor of stage dramas
- dramatistWriter of stage works
- Victorian TheatreHenrik Ibsen, proscenium, Oscar Wilde, footlights, backstage
- AuthorsShakespeare, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- English LiteratureShakespeare, Dickens, Jane Austen, Bronte, Chaucer
- theatreBroadway, acting, theatre, stage, actor
- 1800s FiguresDarwin, Marx, Dickens, Beethoven, Napoleon
- Action HeroesJohn McClane, Hercules, John Wick, Indiana Jones, Rambo
LITERARY/DRAMATIC PHILOSOPHY (George Bernard Shaw)
ShawOscar Wilde
Henrik Ibsen · Victorians · sentimentalists · romantics · melodramatists
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