George Bernard Shaw is the leading playwright of his time. What's Bernard Shaw's viewpoint on literature?

George Bernard Shaw is the leading playwright of his time. What's Bernard Shaw's viewpoint on literature?

Shaw attacked the Neo-Romantic tradition and the fashionable drawing room drama. He hold that art should serve social purposes by reflecting human life,revealing social contradictions and educating people. The mission of his drama was to reveal the moral， political and economic truth from a radical reformist point of view. (p321)