Plays Unpleasant: Widowers' Houses/The Philanderer/Mrs. Warren's Profession Shaw George Bernard
Exclusive to Penguin Classics: the definitive text of Shaw's volume of "unpleasant" plays, Widowers' Houses, The Philanderer, and Mrs. Warren's Profession--part of the official Bernard Shaw LibraryA…
Specifikacia Plays Unpleasant: Widowers' Houses/The Philanderer/Mrs. Warren's Profession Shaw George Bernard
Exclusive to Penguin Classics: the definitive text of Shaw's volume of "unpleasant" plays, Widowers' Houses, The Philanderer, and Mrs. Warren's Profession--part of the official Bernard Shaw LibraryA Penguin ClassicWith Plays Unpleasant, Shaw issued a radical challenge to his audiences' complacency and exposed social evils through his dramatization of the moral conflicts between youthful idealism and economic reality, promiscuity and marriage, and the duties of women to others and to themselves. His first play, Widowers' Houses, depicts Harry Trench's dilemma on learning that the inheritance of his fianc e comes from her father's income as a slum landlord. In The Philanderer, charismatic Leonard Charteris proposes marriage to Grace, while he is still involved with the beautiful Julia Craven--who is not inclined to give him up so
Pygmalion - Shaw George Bernard
Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw