Bernard Shaw

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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."

Bernard Shawn Pyhä Johanna on 1900-luvun suuria näytelmiä. Se esitettiin ensikerran 1923. Shaw sai Nobelin kirjallisuuspalkinnon 1925. Teos on klassillinen draama. Se käsittelee vain tärkeitä asioita. Sen aiheena on Euroopan historian ehkä ihmeellisin tapahtuma, teini-ikäinen Jeanne D'Arc Ranskan armeijan komentajana johtaa sen voittoon. Näytelmä on loistava. Mutta teos ei ole pelkkä näytelmä. Se kuvaa keskiajan suuret laitokset; kirkon ja feodaalijärjestelmän; sen ajatusmaailman ja kulttuurin. Anglosaksisessa maailmassa sitä pidetään historiantutkimuksen perusteoksena, joka suuntasi keskiajan tutkimuksen uudelle uralle.

Bernard Shaw was twenty-four and Sidney Webb twenty-one when they met in October 1880 at a gathering of a debating club called the Zetetical Society. Having sympathetic interests, both men decided, after some personal and joint exploration, to devote their lives to improving the human condition. This collection of 140 annotated letters, 74 of which have never been published, documents the subsequent friendship and collaboration shared by Shaw, Webb, and Webb's wife Beatrice, throughout their lives. The letters, written between 1883 and 1946, discuss the founding of the Fabian Society, the British Labour Party, the London School of Economics, and the New Statesman through the Boer, First, and Second World Wars. Fully annotated with headnotes and footnotes, this collection will expand the general view of Shaw the dramatist to incorporate Shaw the political activist and lifelong friend of the Webbs.