The Private Life of George Bernard Shaw

About the Book

This play concerns the fascinating personal life of one of the most famous playwrights in British literature. His relationship with actresses were many, including the beautiful Ellen Terry, the brilliant Mrs. Patrick Campbell, the volatile Florence Farr, as well as women politicians, suffragettes, and young students. His marriage to Charlotte Payne Townsend was revealing in that she was his muse, nurse, secretary, as well as being his wife.

About the Author

ELIZABETH SHARLAND is an actress, producer, playwright and novelist, best-known for her informative and entertaining non-fiction books about theatre stars - and for her popular and longrunning show Love From Shakespeare to Coward, an anthology of plays poems, letters and diaries around the theme of love, based on six years in the West End using over 200 actors in showcases.

Recently Elizabeth presented her new book “Behind the Doors of Notorious Covent Garden.” at the Lincoln Center in New York with Steve Ross and Tammy Grimes. She trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and joined the Old Vic Company to tour Australia. She has had plays produced in London and New York, formed an English-speaking theatre company in Paris, worked for Yul Brynner on Broadway, and also lectures regularly on the Queen Mary 2, between London and New York. She is married to a Dublin-born psychiatrist, has one son, and travels frequently between Europe and America.