Mrs Warren's Profession (Paperback, Illustrated Ed)

One 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."

General

Imprint:	Broadview Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Series:	Broadview Editions
Release date:	September 2005
First published:	September 2005
Authors:	Bernard Shaw
Editors:	L. W. Conolly
Dimensions:	215 x 142 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	200
Edition:	Illustrated Ed
ISBN-13:	978-1-55111-627-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays > General Promotions
LSN:	1-55111-627-8
Barcode:	9781551116273

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