Mrs Warren's Profession - Shaw, George Bernard
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Mrs Warren's Profession, by Shaw, George Bernard - Akasha Classics, AkashaPublishing.Com - Shaw, George Bernard's third play, Mrs. Warren's Profession, is a story of family relations and sexual propriety in Victorian England. Vivie Warren leads a comfortable, well-educated, middle-class existence. She is dismayed to discover that her proper upbringing has been funded in the most improper of ways - her mother is a brothel manager. For Mrs. Warren, her work has enabled her to rise from desperate poverty and provide her daughter with the good things in life. Can Vivie overcome her repugnance at…mehr

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Mrs Warren's Profession, by Shaw, George Bernard - Akasha Classics, AkashaPublishing.Com - Shaw, George Bernard's third play, Mrs. Warren's Profession, is a story of family relations and sexual propriety in Victorian England. Vivie Warren leads a comfortable, well-educated, middle-class existence. She is dismayed to discover that her proper upbringing has been funded in the most improper of ways - her mother is a brothel manager. For Mrs. Warren, her work has enabled her to rise from desperate poverty and provide her daughter with the good things in life. Can Vivie overcome her repugnance at her mother's profession? Challenging the mores of its time, Mrs. Warren's Profession addresses the economic and social realities of Victorian women, while crackling with wit and energy.
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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW (1856-1950) was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, journalist, and political activist. Unrivaled in his lifetime and since as the leading English-language dramatist of the twentieth century, Shaw was a master of prose style. He wrote more than sixty plays, among them Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1913), and Saint Joan (1923). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925.