Research Catalog

Title

• Mrs. Warren's profession / Bernard Shaw ; edited by L.W. Conolly.

Author

Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950

Publication

Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press, c2005.

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Additional Authors

Conolly, L. W. (Leonard W.)

Description

243 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

"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 mrality, 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.""--Jacket.

Series Statement

• Broadview editions

Uniform Title

Broadview editions

Subject

• 1800-1899
• Great Britain > Social conditions > 19th century > Drama
• Prostitutes > Great Britain > Drama
• Prostitution > Great Britain > Drama
• Working class women > Great Britain > Drama

Genre/Form

Drama

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-248).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

1551116278 :

OCLC

61128020

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library