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This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format. From Shakespeare's... Read Full Overview

One of Bernard Shaw's early plays of social protest, Mrs Warren's Professionplaces 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... Read Full Overview

In 1894, An English author George Bernard Shaw published a play Mrs. Warren's Profession. The play was about a former prostitute now a madam trying to come to terms with disapproving daughter. This is beautiful play that is read and appreciated worldwide. We have formatted the... Read Full Overview

A play about the relationship Mrs Kitty Warren (former prostitute and current brothel owner) and her daughter, Vivie.

Mrs. Warren's Profession is a play written by George Bernard Shaw in 1893, and first performed in London in 1902. The play is about a former prostitute, now a madam (brothel proprietor), who attempts to come to terms with her disapproving daughter.

'Shaw's refusal to moralise about the sex trade, only about the system that supports it, provides the play with its dramatic tension and surprising modernity.' Guardian

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-Mrs. Warren's Profession by Bernard Shaw.This book contains a historical context, where past events or the study and narration of these events are examined. The historical context refers to the circumstances... Read Full Overview

The play is a pure tragedy about a permanent and quite plain human problem; the problem is as plain and permanent, the tragedy is as proud and pure, as in OEDIPUS or MACBETH. - G.K. Chesterton, GEORGE BERNARD SHAWCompleted in 1893, Shaw was forced to wait nine years before seeing... Read Full Overview

Shaw believed that theatre audiences of the 1890s deserved more than the hollow spectacle and sham he saw displayed on the London stage. But he also recognized that people wanted to be entertained while educated, and to see purpose mixed with pleasure. In 'Mrs Warren's Profession',... Read Full Overview

An unabridged edition of the four acts, to include the complete author's apology written prior to the play's first performance (1902) at the New Lyric Club, London.

The story centers on the relationship between Mrs. Kitty Warren, a rich woman, described by the author as "in general, an old and brilliant presenter of a black woman" and her daughter, Vivie. Mrs. Warren is a middle-aged woman whose daughter educated in Cambridge, Vivie, is... Read Full Overview

Mrs. Warren's Profession is a play written by the renowned Irish playwright, George Bernard Shaw, in 1906. The play is set in Victorian England and revolves around the story of Vivie Warren, a young woman who has just graduated from university and is about to embark on her career... Read Full Overview

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 - 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his... Read Full Overview