Plays Unpleasant: Widowers' Houses/The Philanderer/Mrs. Warren's Profession Paperback - 2001
by George Bernard Shaw; Introduction by David Edgar
Summary
With Plays Unpleasant, therefore, Shaw broke all the rules governing how a playwright should entertain his audience. In Widower's Houses, Harry Trench is engaged to brisk Blanche Sartorius. When he realizes that her father is a slum landlord, Harry questions whether he and Blanche have a future together. Charismatic Leonard Charteris is the philanderer who proposes marriage to Grace, while still involved with the beautiful Julia Craven. But Julia is not inclined to surrender him so easily. In Mrs Warren's Profession, Vivie discovers that her mother's immoral earnings have paid for her genteel upbringing. Will she be able to accept her mother for herself?
These plays, as David Edgar says, deal with "the conflict between youthful ideals and economics realities, the drawbacks of promiscuity and the perils of matrimony, the duties of women to others and themselves, the necessity for and the costs of revolt. What could be more eternal than that?"
The definitive text under the editorial supervision by Dan H. Laurence
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- Title Plays Unpleasant: Widowers' Houses/The Philanderer/Mrs. Warren's Profession
- Author George Bernard Shaw; Introduction by David Edgar
- Binding Paperback
- Edition International Ed
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, New York
- Date 2001-01-01
- Features Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780140437935 / 0140437932
- Weight 0.53 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 7.82 x 5.08 x 0.74 in (19.86 x 12.90 x 1.88 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Social conflict, Social problems
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001266519
- Dewey Decimal Code 822.912
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