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Mrs Warren's Profession (Paperback)
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Mrs Warren's Profession (Paperback)
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Profession has been performed at last, after a delay of only eight
years; and I have once more shared with Ibsen the triumphant
amusement of startling all but the strongest-headed of the London
theatre critics clean out of the practice of their profession. No
author who has ever known the exultation of sending the Press into
an hysterical tumult of protest, of moral panic, of involuntary and
frantic confession of sin, of a horror of conscience in which the
power of distinguishing between the work of art on the stage and
the real life of the spectator is confused and overwhelmed, will
ever care for the stereotyped compliments which every successful
farce or melodrama elicits from the newspapers. Give me that critic
who rushed from my play to declare furiously that Sir George Crofts
ought to be kicked. What a triumph for the actor, thus to reduce a
jaded London journalist to the condition of the simple sailor in
the Wapping gallery, who shouts execrations at Iago and warnings to
Othello not to believe him But dearer still than such simplicity is
that sense of the sudden earthquake shock to the foundations of
morality which sends a pallid crowd of critics into the street
shrieking that the pillars of society are cracking and the ruin of
the State is at hand. Even the Ibsen champions of ten years ago
remonstrate with me just as the veterans of those brave days
remonstrated with them. Mr Grein, the hardy iconoclast who first
launched my plays on the stage alongside Ghosts and The Wild Duck,
exclaimed that I have shattered his ideals. Actually his ideals
What would Dr Relling say? And Mr William Archer himself disowns me
because I "cannot touch pitch without wallowing in it." Truly my
play must be more needed than I knew; and yet I thought I knew how
little the others know.
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