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Mrs. Warren's Profession

George Bernard Shaw

Year: 1894

Language: English

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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.

Author's Biography

George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950) was an Irish playwright and one of the-founders of the London School of Economics. He was known for his sharp wit.

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