Containing the three unpleasant plays: Widowers' houses. The philanderer. Mrs. Warren's profession
Author: Bernard Shaw
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Published: 1906
Total Pages: 282
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Author: Bernard Shaw
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Published: 1906
Total Pages: 282
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Published: 1898
Total Pages: 294
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Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: 2005-09-13
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781551116273
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of Bernard Shaw’s early plays of social protest, Mrs Warren’s Profession places the protagonist’s decision to become a prostitute in the context of the appalling conditions for working class women in Victorian England. Faced with ill health, poverty, and marital servitude on the one hand, and opportunities for financial independence, dignity, and self-worth on the other, Kitty Warren follows her sister into a successful career in prostitution. Shaw’s fierce social criticism in this play is driven not by conventional morality, but by anger at the hypocrisy that allows society to condemn prostitution while condoning the discrimination against women that makes prostitution inevitable. This Broadview edition includes a comprehensive historical and critical introduction; extracts from Shaw’s prefaces to the play; Shaw’s expurgations of the text; early reviews of the play in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain; and contemporary contextual documents on prostitution, incest, censorship, women’s education, and the “New Woman.”
Author: Bernard Shaw
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Published: 1898
Total Pages: 0
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Published: 1910
Total Pages: 102
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Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: 2015-05-21
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 1770485716
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe second of Shaw’s “unpleasant” plays, written in 1893, published in 1898, but not performed until 1905, The Philanderer is subtitled “A Topical Comedy.” The eclectic range of topical subjects addressed in the play includes the influence of Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen on British middle-class social mores (the second act of The Philanderer is set in the fictional Ibsen Club), medical follies, the rise of the “New Woman,” and, in particular, the destructive impact of Victorian marriage and divorce laws. Just as Shaw’s other “unpleasant” plays, Widowers’ Houses and Mrs Warren’s Profession, call, respectively, for reform of laws that allow corrupt property owners to exploit the poor and for radical change to economic structures that drive women into prostitution, so The Philanderer makes the case for more liberal legislation to allow easier divorce—particularly for women—when marriages become irretrievably broken. Shaw’s attack on divorce laws becomes even clearer and stronger in the final act that he wrote for the play but discarded in favour of the version he published. The discarded version is published for the first time in this Broadview edition of the play.
Author: Percival Presland Howe
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 184
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 712
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Published: 1907
Total Pages: 592
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Author: Albert Shaw
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Published: 1906
Total Pages: 1288
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