He was Irish – born writer and Nobel laureate, considered the most significant British dramatist since Shakespeare. In addition to being a prolific playwright (he wrote more than 50 stage plays), the most readable music critic and best theatre critic of his generation. Although in some ways he was both visionary and mystic , naturally shy and quietly generous, he was a big stranger in this time and place. He was under influence of the writings of Karl Marx perhaps because of his unhappy childhood (his father was an alcoholic). He admired Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen. I really love his the most famous play which really delighted me. It is critism of social prejudices, fight for woman emancipation.Name of this play and plot is borowed from Ovidius `s masterpiece Metamorphoses in which sculptor Pygmalion creates a beatiful statue of young woman. He falls in love with statue and revives it.