Mrs. Warren's Profession Summary
George Bernard Shaw

THE AUTHOR’S APOLOGY Mrs Warren’s Profession has been performed at last, after a delay of only eight years; and I have once more shared with Ibsen the triumphant amusement of startling all... Read more

The British playwright, critic, and pamphleteer George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) produced more than 52 plays and playlets, three volumes of music and drama criticism, and one major volume of socialist ... Read more

A long life made Shaw's multifaceted activities possible, for he was handicapped by a decade-long false start in fiction, and even more by the circumstances of his upbringing. Born George Bernard Shaw... Read more

Bernard Shaw was one of the most important, and certainly the most prolific, reform writers of the twentieth century. In provocative, trenchant, and humorous style he tried to formulate a constructive... Read more

In the following essay, Berst calls Mrs. Warren's Profession one of Shaw's most didactic plays and maintains that “an examination of its achievement as art should prove helpful in... Read more