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His best-known plays include ''[[Pygmalion]]'', ''[[Arms and the Man]]'', ''Mrs. Warren's Profession'', ''Man and Superman'', ''[[The Devil's Disciple]]'' and ''Saint Joan''. ''Arms and the Man'' inspired the operetta ''The Chocolate Soldier'', and ''Pygmalion'' inspired the musical ''[[My Fair Lady]]''.
 
Shaw is the onlyfirst writer to have been awarded both the Nobel Prize in literature and an [[Academy Award]], (the latter for the screenplay of the 1938 film adaptation of ''Pygmalion''). ([[Bob Dylan]] is the second, as of 2016.)
 
His will funded a contest to create a new non-Latin alphabet for the English language. Four of the winning entries were combined to create [[wikipedia:Shavian|the Shavian alphabet]], which first appeared in 1962 in a special edition of another Shaw play, ''[[Androcles and the Lion]]''.