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Shaw, Bernard

 
9781551116273: Mrs Warren's Profession (Broadview Editions)
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ISBN 10: 1551116278 ISBN 13: 9781551116273
Editorial: Broadview Press Ltd, 2005

Sinopsis

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."

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Acerca del autor

Jonathan Wisenthal is Professor of English at the University of British Columbia and the author of several books, including Shaw's Sense of History.


Daniel O'Leary is Assistant Professor of English at Concordia University in Montreal and a contributor to the Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel and The History of the Book in Canada.

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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."

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Editorial
Broadview Press Ltd
Año de publicación
2005
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1551116278
ISBN 13 
9781551116273
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
246
Editor
Conolly Leonard
Contacto del fabricante
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