Shaw subtitled his play 'A Tragedy' but in fact, writes Michael Holroyd, it's a brilliant satire on the pre-NHS medical professionBernard Shaw let it be known that he wrote The Doctor's Dilemma in 1906 to meet a challenge from his friend, the theatre critic William Archer. Archer had claimed that GBS could not be regarded as a supreme dramatist until he had written a tragedy involving "the King of Terrors" " death. S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:22PM on July 1, 2016