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Mrs Warren´s Profession
Bernard Shaw
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Description for Mrs Warren´s Profession
Paperback. One of Bernard Shaw's greatest plays, Mrs Warren's Profession raises issues about class struggle, generational differences, the past, and female hardship through the exploration of a mother and daughter relationship put under enormous strain. Editor(s): Kent, Brad. Series: New Mermaids. Num Pages: 224 pages, Production photographs. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSBF; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UA) A / AS level; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 164 x 13. Weight in Grams: 218.
'Shaw's refusal to moralise about the sex trade, only about the system that supports it, provides the play with its dramatic tension and surprising modernity.' Guardian Shaw's 1893 play centres on the mother and daughter relationship between Kitty Warren and her Cambridge-educated daughter, Vivie, who is currently enjoying a comfortable and financially untroubled life. Kitty's own upbringing was far from easy, however, and meant that she eventually had to make money through prostitution and then through the management of several brothels. When Vivie discovers that her mother brought her up and funded Vivie's Cambridge education on the money made ... Read more
'Shaw's refusal to moralise about the sex trade, only about the system that supports it, provides the play with its dramatic tension and surprising modernity.' Guardian Shaw's 1893 play centres on the mother and daughter relationship between Kitty Warren and her Cambridge-educated daughter, Vivie, who is currently enjoying a comfortable and financially untroubled life. Kitty's own upbringing was far from easy, however, and meant that she eventually had to make money through prostitution and then through the management of several brothels. When Vivie discovers that her mother brought her up and funded Vivie's Cambridge education on the money made ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
New Mermaids
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780713679946
SKU
V9780713679946
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About Bernard Shaw
Brad Kent is Associate Professor of British and Irish Literatures at Université Laval in Quebec City and the programme director for the International Shaw Society's annual colloquium series at the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada. He has published widely on Bernard Shaw, Irish Literature, and the cultural politics of censorship.
Reviews for Mrs Warren´s Profession
Banned for over 30 years, this cautionary tale ruthlessly dissects Victorian family relationships in all its uncompromising forms voyeuristically witnessing breathtaking snobbery, arrogance, attitudes to lower classes and an unsavoury disposition to money and status... In a world where perception, morality, money and status form the basis of how society frames itself Mrs Warren's Profession is a caustic, revelatory tale ... Read more