Shaw's plays often ridicule governmental or social hypocrisies of mock the conventions of polite society. In the long prefaces to the printed editions he aired his views on all sorts of subjects. In 1925 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Among his most famous plays are Widowers Houses. Mrs. Warren's Profession, Arms and the man, Man and Superman, Major Barbara, Pygmalion and Saint Joan• Shaw’s plays often ridicule governmental or social hypocrisies of mock the conventions of polite society. In the long prefaces to the printed editions he aired his views on all sorts of subjects. In 1925 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Among his most famous plays are Widowers’ Houses. Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Arms and the Man, Man and Superman, Major Barbara, Pygmalion and Saint Joan