Plays Unpleasant: Widowers' Houses; The Philanderer, and, Mrs Warren's Profession
| By: | George Bernard Shaw |
| Publisher: | Penguin Classics; New Ed edition |
| Published: | September 2000 |
| Pages: | 320 |
| Categories: | Fiction |
| Language: | English |
| Available as: | Paperback |
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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.
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