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He certainly believed in himself! Ga,those plays are boring...
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Well, Mav, Jeder hat seinem Geschmuck. I love GBS' plays; in fact, I have to agree with his own estimation that he was probably the greatest playwright (in English, anyway) since Shakespeare, a view he put forth in the short play Shakes vs. Shav.
To answer Bill's question, in various plays (and more, in the prefaces thereto) he advocated a view which he took from Nietzche, that there is an impersonal Life Force which animates (I guess that's the word but not sure) the universe. It's a sort of Deism but not as theistic. In fact, it's nonsense to anyone who has a religion, and equally nonsense to an atheist or thoroughgoing agnostic. You can get some of this from the prefaces to Man and Superman and, I think, Saint Joan.
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Jeder hat seinem GeschmuckS'what makes the world go round, Bob. Yes, the ideas are always of some interest to read - but the drama, the drama is spectacular in its absence. And the guy writes language that has all the poetry of a plastic duck. 
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