一英国杰出的剧作家,在他的优秀作品中显出是一个尖锐的、出色的讽刺家的萧伯纳,在他一生中九十五岁这一年逝世了。萧伯纳是在上世纪末叶进入文学界的,在那时代,阶级矛盾的尖锐化正震动了英国先进的知识份子。远在他那些早期的、充满着战斗热忱的批评论文中,年青的萧伯纳就已经对笼罩在英国剧场的固步自封和墨守成规的风气施以攻击,他号召英国剧场转向活的现实。一八九三年,演出了萧伯纳的第一个剧本「伦敦贫民窟」。这个剧本的出现,距离谢里敦的讽刺喜剧「造谣学校」(一七七七年)已有一百多年了。在这个长久的时期中,在英国,如果不算拜伦的「神秘剧」和雪莱的悲剧「庆琪』——几乎应该算是诗歌而不是戏剧——之 A prominent British playwright, Shaw, Bernard Shaw, a sharp, brilliant satirist who appeared in his fine work, died a year after he was 95 years old. George Bernard Shaw entered the literary world at the end of the last century, when the sharpening of class contradictions was shaking the advanced intellectuals in Britain. Far in his early, passionate criticism, the young George Bernard Shaw had attacked the stereotypes and stereotypes that encircled the English theater, calling on the British theater to turn to live reality. In 1893, George Bernard Shaw’s first play “The London Slums” was performed. This script has been around for more than a hundred years from Sheriod’s satirical comedy The Squish School (1774). In this long time, in Britain, if you do not count on Byron’s “Mystery Drama” and Shelley’s tragedy “Celebrate Qi” - it should almost be poetry rather than drama -