Author: G.B. ShawPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5873948127
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Mrs. Warren's profession: a play in four act
Author: G.B. ShawPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5873948127
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Mrs. Warren's Profession: a Play in Four Acts
Author: Bernard ShawMrs. Warren's Profession a Play in Four Acts
Author: Bernard ShawMrs. Warren's Profession
Author: George Bernard ShawPublisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 159605980X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 61
Book Description
Middle-aged Mrs. Warren is a madam, proprietress of a string of successful brothels. Her daughter, Vivie, is a modern young woman, but not so modern that she's not shocked to discover the source of her mother's wealth. The clash of these two strong-willed but culturally constrained Victorian women is the spark that ignites the ironic wit of one of George Bernard Shaw's greatest plays, a withering critique of male domination, sexual hypocrisy, and societal convention. Initially banned after its 1893 publication with its startling frankness, Mrs. Warren's Profession remains a powerful work of progressive theater. Irish playwright GEORGE BERNARD SHAW (1856-1950) won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925 and an Academy Award for Adapted Screenplay in 1938, the only person to achieve both honors. Among his many renowned plays are Arms and the Man (1894), Candida (1894), Man and Superman (1903), Major Barbara (1905), and Pygmalion (1913).
Mrs. Warren's Profession
Author: Bernard ShawIncorporated Stage Society
Author: Incorporated Stage Society, LondonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Bulletin of Bibliography
Author: How Everyday Products Make People Sick
Author: Paul D. BlancPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520248821
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
Hidden health dangers lurk in many of the seemingly innocent products we encounter every day - a tube of glue in a kitchen drawer, a bottle of bleach in the laundry room, a rayon scarf on a closet shelf, a brass knob on the front door, a wood plank on an out-door deck. It presents a picture not of one exceptional or corrutpt industry but, rather, of how run-of-the mill manufacturing processes and consumer marketing expose workers and the general public alike to toxic hazards.
The Philanderer
Author: Bernard ShawPublisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1554812631
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The 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.
Mrs. Warren's Profession; A Play in Four ACT
Author: Bernard ShawPublisher: Franklin Classics
ISBN: 9780342796496
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
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