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by George Bernard Shaw (Author), David Edgar (Introduction) "In the garden restaurant of a hotel at Remagen on the Rhine, on a fine afternoon in August in the eighteen-eighties ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Classics; New Ed edition (26 May 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140437932
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140437935
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 62,349 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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With 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 fiancée 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 easily. And in Mrs Warren’s Profession, Vivie Warren is forced to reconsider her own future when she discovers that her mother’s immoral earnings funded her genteel upbringing.


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Dublin-born George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was an active Socialist and a brilliant platform speaker. He was strongly critical of London theatre and closely associated with the intellectual revival of British drama. Dan H. Laurence has edited SHAW'S COLLECTED LETTERS and COLLECTED PLAYS with their Prefaces. He was Literary Advisor to the Shaw Estate until his retirement in 1990. David Edgar has written widely on theatre and his original plays include DESTINY, MAYDAYS and PENTECOST.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Shaw attacks the assumptions of a conservative 1890's., 30 Mar 2001
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Shaw's cutting wit and exquisite written style attract an unknowing audience to a barrage of attacks on the society of the 1890's. 'Plays Unpleasant' is a collection of different plays highlighting the darker and unmentionable aspects of society at the turn of the ninteenth century. For example 'Mrs Warren's Profession' explores issues of prostitution and its position in society. Shaw directly engages his audience with examples of their own hypocrisy and conservative assumptions in a play that was branded inappropriate and banned from the London stage. This collection of plays gives an interesting perspective of the 1890's society.
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