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George Bernard Shaw
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Shaw's theory of the theatre was also influenced by his accurate study of the plays of the Norwegian playwright, Henrik Ibsen
In his lecture The Quintessence of Ibsenism Shaw explained how Ibsen intended his plays to be a vehicle for ideas
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he found employment as a music and theatre critic for the Saturday Review and began to write his own plays
He was deeply influenced by the German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, from whom he derived his theory of individual 'live force'
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These works, all written with Shaw's characteristic brillant and irreverent wit