Mrs. Warren's Profession

by Bernard Shaw

Mrs. Warren's Profession (1893) is one of Shaw's most controversial early plays. It examines the economic forces that drive women to prostitution through the confrontation between the pragmatic Mrs. Warren and her Cambridge-educated daughter Vivie, who must reckon with the source of the wealth that paid for her privileged upbringing. Banned from public performance in England until 1925, the play remains a powerful critique of Victorian moral hypocrisy.

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