Mrs Warrens Profession

Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mrs. Warren's Profession written by George Bernard Shaw and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-21 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mrs. Warren's Profession" by George Bernard Shaw is a provocative exploration of morality, class, and the role of women in society. The play revolves around the relationship between Mrs. Kitty Warren, a shrewd and successful madam, and her daughter Vivie, a young woman determined to make her own way in the world. As Vivie uncovers the truth about her mother's profession, she is forced to confront her own values and beliefs, leading to a clash of ideals between mother and daughter. Shaw's incisive wit and social commentary shine through in this thought-provoking drama, challenging audiences to reconsider their preconceptions about morality and the choices individuals make in pursuit of success and independence. "Mrs. Warren's Profession" remains a compelling and relevant work that continues to spark conversation and debate.

Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mrs. Warren's Profession written by George Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vivie Warren, a thoroughly modern young woman, has just graduated from the University of Cambridge with honours in Mathematics, and is available for suitors. Her mother, Mrs. Warren, arranges for her to meet her friend Mr. Praed, a middle-aged, handsome architect, at the home where Vivie is staying. Mrs. Warren arrives with her business partner, Sir George Crofts, who is attracted to Vivie despite their 25-year age difference. Vivie is romantically involved with the youthful Frank Gardner, who sees her as his meal ticket. His father, the Reverend Samuel Gardner, has a history with Vivie's mother. As we discover later, he may be Vivie's out-of-wedlock father, which would make Vivie and Frank half-siblings. Mrs. Warren successfully justifies to her daughter how she chose her particular profession in order to support her daughter and give her the opportunities she never had. She saved enough money to buy into the business with her sister, and she now owns a chain of brothels across Europe. Vivie is, at first, horrified by the revelation, but then lauds her mother as a champion. However, the reconciliation ends when Vivie finds out that her mother continues to run the business even though she no longer needs to. Vivie takes an office job in the city and dumps Frank, vowing she will never marry. She disowns her mother, and Mrs. Warren is left heartbroken, having looked forward to growing old with her daughter.

Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 159605980X
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mrs. Warren's Profession written by George Bernard Shaw and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Middle-aged Mrs. Warren is a madam, proprietress of a string of successful brothels. Her daughter, Vivie, is a modern young woman, but not so modern that she's not shocked to discover the source of her mother's wealth. The clash of these two strong-willed but culturally constrained Victorian women is the spark that ignites the ironic wit of one of George Bernard Shaw's greatest plays, a withering critique of male domination, sexual hypocrisy, and societal convention. Initially banned after its 1893 publication with its startling frankness, Mrs. Warren's Profession remains a powerful work of progressive theater. Irish playwright GEORGE BERNARD SHAW (1856-1950) won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925 and an Academy Award for Adapted Screenplay in 1938, the only person to achieve both honors. Among his many renowned plays are Arms and the Man (1894), Candida (1894), Man and Superman (1903), Major Barbara (1905), and Pygmalion (1913).

Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368307851
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mrs. Warren's Profession written by George Bernard Shaw and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-10-12 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mrs. Warren's Profession written by Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jill Dolan
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472081608
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Feminist Spectator as Critic written by Jill Dolan and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extends the feminist analysis of representation to the realm of performance

Author : Léonie Andelfinger
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3346026701
Total Pages : 26 pages
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Download or read book The concept of the New Woman in Bernhard Shaw's "Mrs Warren's Profession" written by Léonie Andelfinger and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,4, University of Stuttgart, language: English, abstract: The paper is about the concept of the New Woman in Bernhard Shaw's "Mrs Warren's Profession". The central conflict of "Mrs Warren’s Profession" is seemingly one of opposition. The two women in the play are mother and daughter and they live their lives very differently. Mrs Warren, the mother, is a prostitute and the owner of at least one brothel and her daughter Vivie appears to be the perfect image of the new woman, an ideal of womanhood which became popular at the end of the 19th century. The intention of this essay is to prove that both Vivie Warren and her mother are new women in their own right and that even this new womanhood will not free them entirely of the oppression of man.

Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101157666
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plays by George Bernard Shaw written by George Bernard Shaw and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-08-03 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Bernard Shaw demanded truth and despised convention. He punctured hollow pretensions and smug prudishness—coating his criticism with ingenious and irreverent wit. In Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Arms and the Man, Candida, and Man and Superman, the great playwright satirizes society, military heroism, marriage, and the pursuit of man by woman. From a social, literary, and theatrical standpoint, these four plays are among the foremost dramas of the age—as intellectually stimulating as they are thoroughly enjoyable. “My way of joking is to tell the truth: It is the funniest joke in the world.”—G. B. Shaw With an Introduction by Eric Bentley and an Afterword by Norman Lloyd

Author : George Shaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781535180641
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mrs Warren's Profession written by George Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-09 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mrs Warren's Professionby George Bernard ShawMrs. Warren's Profession is a play written by George Bernard Shaw in 1893, and first performed in London in 1902. The title refers to prostitution.The story centres on the relationship between Mrs Kitty Warren and her daughter, Vivie. Mrs. Warren, a former prostitute and current brothel owner, is described as "on the whole, a genial and fairly presentable old blackguard of a woman." Vivie, an intelligent and pragmatic young woman who has just graduated from university, has come home to get acquainted with her mother for the first time in her life. The play focuses on how their relationship changes when Vivie learns what her mother does for a living. It explains why Mrs. Warren became a prostitute, condemns the hypocrisies relating to prostitution, and criticises the limited employment opportunities available for women in Victorian Britain.

Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mrs. Warren's Profession written by George Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-18 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE GENTLEMAN [taking off his hat] I beg your pardon. Can you direct me to Hindhead View-Mrs Alison's?THE YOUNG LADY [glancing up from her book] This is Mrs Alison's. [She resumes her work].THE GENTLEMAN. Indeed! Perhaps-may I ask are you Miss Vivie Warren?THE YOUNG LADY [sharply, as she turns on her elbow to get a good look at him] Yes.THE GENTLEMAN [daunted and conciliatory] I'm afraid I appear intrusive. My name is Praed. [Vivie at once throws her books upon the chair, and gets out of the hammock]. Oh, pray don't let me disturb you.VIVIE [striding to the gate and opening it for him] Come in, Mr Praed. [He comes in]. Glad to see you. [She proffers her hand and takes his with a resolute and hearty grip. She is an attractive specimen of the sensible, able, highly-educated young middle-class Englishwoman. Age 22. Prompt, strong, confident, self-possessed. Plain business-like dress, but not dowdy. She wears a chatelaine at her belt, with a fountain pen and a paper knife among its pendants].PRAED. Very kind of you indeed, Miss Warren. [She shuts the gate with a vigorous slam. He passes in to the middle of the garden, exercising his fingers, which are slightly numbed by her greeting]. Has your mother arrived?VIVIE [quickly, evidently scenting aggression] Is she coming?PRAED [surprised] Didn't you expect us?VIVIE. No.PRAED. Now, goodness me, I hope I've not mistaken the day. That would be just like me, you know. Your mother arranged that she was to come down from London and that I was to come over from Horsham to be introduced to you.VIVIE [not at all pleased] Did she? Hm! My mother has rather a trick of taking me by surprise-to see how I behave myself while she's away, I suppose. I fancy I shall take my mother very much by surprise one of these days, if she makes arrangements that concern me without consulting me beforehand. She hasnt come.PRAED [embarrassed] I'm really very sorry.VIVIE [throwing off her displeasure] It's not your fault, Mr Praed, is it? And I'm very glad you've come. You are the only one of my mother's friends I have ever asked her to bring to see me.PRAED [relieved and delighted] Oh, now this is really very good of you, Miss Warren!VIVIE. Will you come indoors; or would you rather sit out here and talk?PRAED. It will be nicer out here, don't you think?