Shaw, Robert

Japanese: ショー(英語表記)Shaw, Robert
Shaw, Robert
Born: August 9, 1927, Westhoughton, England
[Died] August 28, 1978, Tolmakedy, Ireland. British actor, playwright, and novelist. Graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Began acting at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (→Royal Shakespeare Theatre) and appeared in William Shakespeare's Macbeth, Cymbeline, and Henry VIII as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. From 1951 to 1952, he was a member of the Old Vic (→Old Vic Theatre) and was active mainly as a Shakespearean actor. In 1955, he began acting in contemporary plays, and made his US debut in 1961 in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker (1960). He appeared in many films, including From Russia with Love (1963), A Man for All Seasons (1966), and The Sting (1973). As a novelist, he preferred to write characters in marginal situations. His works include The Flag (1965), which uses John Calvin as the main character and tackles the problems of Christian Socialism, and The Man in the Glass Booth (1967), which was inspired by the trial of Nazi leader Karl Adolf Eichmann.

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Shaw, George Bernard

Born: July 26, 1856 in Dublin, Ireland
[Died] November 2, 1950, United Kingdom Ayoth St. Lawrence, British playwright of Irish origin. He moved to London to aspire to be a novelist, but was unsuccessful and instead wrote music and theater reviews. He became interested in socialism and joined the Fabian Society in 1884. He was influenced by Ibsen, Wagner, and Nietzsche. He finally made his debut on the stage with the comedy Widowers' Houses (1892). He produced many works, including Candida (1895), Man and Superman (1905), Caesar and Cleopatra (1906), Return to Methuselah (1921), and Saint Joan (1923). All of these comedies are rich in thought and wit. Her other works include The Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891, revised and expanded in 1913) and The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism (1928). She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925.

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Shaw, Richard Norman

Born: May 7, 1831, Edinburgh
[Died] 17 November 1912, London. British architect. After training under W. Burne, he studied architecture at the Royal Academy. He studied in Germany, Italy and France, and after returning to England published Architectural Sketches from the Continent (1858). He then began to design his own buildings, collaborating with W. Nesfield, and later going independent, designing numerous residential buildings, becoming the most important residential architect in Britain in the second half of the 19th century. His main works include Holy Trinity Cathedral (66-67), Cragside (70), the Bedford Park Garden City (78), Albert Hall Mansions (79-81), and Bryanston (90).

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Shaw, Irwin

Born: February 27, 1913, New York
[Died] May 16, 1984, Davos American playwright and novelist. After graduating from Brooklyn College, he published plays such as Bury the Dead (1936) and The Gentle People (39). He then became famous for his first novel, The Young Lions (48), which emphasized humanism by contrasting peaceful life with the brutal battlefields of World War II. His other works include Lucy Crown (56), Voices of a Summer Day (65), and Rich Man, Poor Man (70).

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Shaw, Artie

Born: May 23, 1910, New York, New York
[Died] December 30, 2004. Newbury Park, California. American jazz clarinetist and orchestra conductor. He released many hit records from the 1930s to the 1940s, including "Beguine the Beguine" by Cole Porter. Although his orchestra was very popular, he retired in 1954. He reformed the band in 1983. He is also known for having been married eight times, to Ava Gardner, Lana Turner, and others.

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It means to show or exhibit, but is usually a general term for various stage performances, television and radio programs with strong visual and entertainment elements. Its origins are said to be in the European revues after World War I, but the word show was first used in Japan around 1935. Many of them are variety-style shows with a light tempo, featuring music, dance and comedy sketches. It also refers to exhibitions such as car shows and fashion shows.

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Shaw, Robert Gould

Born: October 10, 1837, Boston
Died July 18, 1863. Born in Charleston, South Carolina. American Army officer. Joined the Union Army in 1861 during the American Civil War, and in 1863 became commander of the 54th Regiment, which was made up of black soldiers. In June of that year, he participated in the front line, and after an expedition to Florida, he was killed in action near the walls of Fort Wagner in July while leading the charge. A monument to him was erected in Boston in 1897.

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Shaw, Robert Barkley

Born: July 12, 1839.
[Died] June 15, 1879.
British traveller to Central Asia. He visited East Turkistan on business from 1868 to 1869, and mediated the conclusion of a commercial treaty between England and Yakub Beg. He later became the commissioner in Mandalay, Burma. His main work is "A visit to High Tartary, Yarkand and Kashgar" (1871).

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Shaw, Joshua E.

[Born] 1776
[Died] 1860
American inventor. He made a major improvement to the rifle percussion cap invented by A. Forsyth, which led to the development of the machine gun. At first, the percussion cap was made of iron, but from around 1816, he began to use copper tubes filled with fulminate of mercury.

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[生]1927.8.9. イギリス,ウェストホートン
[没]1978.8.28 アイルランド,トルマケディ
イギリスの俳優,劇作家,小説家。ロンドンのロイヤル演劇アカデミーを卒業。シェークスピア記念劇場(→ロイヤル・シェークスピア劇場)で俳優として出発,ロイヤル・シェークスピア劇団員としてウィリアム・シェークスピアの『マクベス』Macbeth,『シンベリン』Cymbeline,『ヘンリー8世』Henry VIIIなどに出演した。1951~52年オールド・ビック劇団(→オールド・ビック劇場)に所属し,おもににシェークスピア俳優として活躍した。1955年に現代劇も演じ始め,1961年にハロルド・ピンターの『管理人』The Caretaker(1960)でアメリカ合衆国デビューを果たした。映画は『007/ロシアより愛をこめて』From Russia with Love(1963),『わが命つきるとも』A Man for All Seasons(1966),『スティング』The Sting(1973)など数多くの作品に出演した。小説家としては限界状況におかれた人物を好んで描いた。ジャン・カルバンを主人公にしてキリスト教社会主義の問題を取り上げた『旗』The Flag(1965),ナチス幹部カール・アドルフ・アイヒマンの裁判にヒントを得た『ガラス張り座席の男』The Man in the Glass Booth(1967)などがある。

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Shaw, George Bernard

[生]1856.7.26. アイルランド,ダブリン
[没]1950.11.2. イギリス,エイオット・セント・ロレンス
アイルランド出身のイギリスの劇作家。ロンドンに出て小説家を志したが成功せず,音楽批評や劇評を執筆。社会主義に関心をもち,1884年フェビアン協会に入る。イプセン,ワーグナー,ニーチェらの影響を受ける。喜劇『男やもめの家』 Widowers' Houses (1892) によってようやく劇壇に登場。『キャンディダ』 (1895) ,『人と超人』 (1905) ,『シーザーとクレオパトラ』 (1906) ,『メトセラへ帰れ』 (1921) ,『聖ジョーン』 (1923) など作品多数。いずれも思想性と機知に富む喜劇である。その他『イプセン主義真髄』 The Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891,改訂増補 1913) ,『知識階級婦人のための社会主義および資本主義入門』 The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism (1928) などの著書がある。 1925年ノーベル文学賞受賞。

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Shaw, Richard Norman

[生]1831.5.7. エディンバラ
[没]1912.11.17. ロンドン
イギリスの建築家。 W.バーンのもとで修業したのち,ロイヤル・アカデミーで建築を学ぶ。ドイツ,イタリア,フランスに留学,帰国後『建築素描集』 Architectural Sketches from the Continent (1858) を出版。その後制作活動に入り,W.ネスフィールドと共同制作,のち独立して数多くの住居建築を設計し,19世紀後半のイギリスにおける最も重要な住宅建築家となる。主作品はホーリー・トリニティ聖堂 (66~67) ,クラグサイド (70) ,ベドフォード・パークの田園都市計画 (78) ,アルバート・ホール・マンションズ (79~81) ,ブライアンストン (90) などがある。

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Shaw, Irwin

[生]1913.2.27. ニューヨーク
[没]1984.5.16. ダボス
アメリカの劇作家,小説家。ブルックリン・カレッジ卒業後,『死者を葬れ』 Bury the Dead (1936) ,『おとなしい人々』 The Gentle People (39) などの戯曲を発表。その後,第2次世界大戦の,平和な生活と凄惨な戦場との対照を背景にヒューマニズムを強調した最初の小説『若き獅子たち』 The Young Lions (48) で一躍有名になった。ほかに『ルーシー・クラウン』 Lucy Crown (56) ,『夏の日の声』 Voices of A Summer Day (65) ,『富める者,貧しき者』 Rich Man,Poor Man (70) などがある。

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Shaw, Artie

[生]1910.5.23. ニューヨーク,ニューヨーク
[没]2004.12.30. カリフォルニア,ニューベリーパーク
アメリカのジャズ・クラリネット奏者兼楽団指揮者。 1930年代から 1940年代にかけてコール・ポーター作曲の『ビギン・ザ・ビギン』など数々のヒット・レコードを出した。楽団の人気は高かったが,1954年に引退。 1983年バンドを再結成した。エバ・ガードナー,ラナ・ターナーらとの8回の結婚歴でも有名。

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見せること,展示することを意味するが,普通には視覚的,娯楽的要素の濃い各種の舞台芸能,テレビ,ラジオ番組などの総称。第1次世界大戦後のヨーロッパでのレビューがその源とされるが,日本でショーという言葉が用いられたのは,1935年前後の頃からである。軽快なテンポで,音楽,舞踊,コントなどがバラエティー風に構成されたものが多い。また自動車ショー,ファッションショーなどの展示会をもさす。

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Shaw, Robert Gould

[生]1837.10.10. ボストン
[没]1863.7.18. サウスカロライナ,チャールストン
アメリカの陸軍軍人。南北戦争で 1861年北軍に加わり,63年黒人で編成された第 54連隊の指揮官となり,同年6月戦線に参加,フロリダ遠征ののち,7月フォート・ワグナー攻略戦指揮中に要塞の壁近くで戦死。 97年ボストンに記念碑が建てられた。

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Shaw, Robert Barkley

[生]1839.7.12.
[没]1879.6.15.
イギリスの中央アジア旅行家。 1868~69年商用で東トルキスタンを訪れ,ヤクブ・ベクとイギリスとの通商条約の締結を斡旋した。のちにビルマのマンダレーの弁務官になった。主著は"A visit to High Tartary,Yarkand and Kashgar" (1871) 。

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Shaw, Joshua E.

[生]1776
[没]1860
アメリカの発明家。 A.フォーサイスが発明した小銃弾用の雷管を大幅に改良し,機関銃の登場をもたらした。初め鉄製であったが,1816年頃から銅でつくった管に雷汞 (らいこう) を詰めた。

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