Description: Mrs Warren's Profession, Candida, and You Never Can Tell by George Bernard Shaw, Sos Eltis Mrs Warrens Profession, Candida, and You Never Can Tell are plays which give a clear sense of the range of Shaws first forays into playwriting. Together they showcase his early negotiations between his political and social concerns and the constraints and possibilities of the British stage at the fin de siècle. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Mrs Warrens Profession, Candida, and You Never Can Tell are plays which give a clear sense of the range of Shaws first forays into playwriting. Together they showcase his early negotiations between his political and social concerns and the constraints and possibilities of the British stage at the fin de siècle. These plays are bound together by shared concerns with gender roles, sexuality, conceptsof familial and social duty, and how all these are shaped by wider financial, political, literary, philosophical and theatrical influences. Mrs Warrens Profession is the best known of Shaws Plays Unpleasant, his firstexercises in using the theatre as a means to awaken the consciences of morally complacent audiences. Written in 1893 in angry response to the success of A. W. Pineros sensational hit The Second Mrs Tanqueray and a revival of Dumass La dame aux camélias, Mrs Warrens Profession did not receive a public performance in Britain until 1925. Shaws provocative response to the sentimental fallen woman plays that dominated the fin-de-siècle stagewas a play in which prostitution was presented not as a question of female sexual morality, but as a direct result of the systematic economic exploitation of women. Candida (1894), by contrast, was categorised by Shaw as one of hisPlays Pleasant, but the label was characteristically deceptive. The play appeared at first sight to offer audiences a reassuringly familiar drama of a marriage threatened by an interloper but ultimately reaffirmed when the wife recognises her true place and her dangerous admirer is sent out into the cold. But, as critics have noted, the play was a re-working by Shaw of Ibsens A Dolls House in which the husband played the part of the over-protected doll, unaware of the real power dynamics ofhis marriage.You Never Can Tell (1897) was Shaws seaside comedy of manners, complete with an all-knowing waiter, exuberant twins, a lovelorn dentist, a long-lost father,lashings of food, and a comic catchphrase to provide the title. Shaw took all these familiar elements of Victorian farce and reworked them into a modern play of ideas, in which etiquette and ideologies collide. Just as in Wildes The Importance of Being Earnest (a comparison which Shaw always stubbornly rejected), questions of class, marriage, manners, money, sex and identity underpin the plot of love-at-first-sight, mislaid parents and reunited families. Author Biography Sos Eltis is Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow at Brasenose College. Table of Contents IntroductionSelect BibliographyChronologyMrs Warrens ProfessionCandidaYou Never Can TellExplanatory Notes Long Description Mrs Warrens Profession, Candida, and You Never Can Tell are plays which give a clear sense of the range of Shaws first forays into playwriting. Together they showcase his early negotiations between his political and social concerns and the constraints and possibilities of the British stage at the fin de si Feature An introduction which looks at Shaws early writing career as music and theatre critic, journalist, essayist and novelist, and how his dramatic work emerged from and related back to this professional training.Discusses Shaws faith in the theatre as a potential new church of ideas, inspired in particular by the work of Henrik Ibsen. Shaws characteristically idiosyncratic readings of Ibsens plays in The Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891), in particular, informs the challenges to conventional gender roles, familial structures and social conventions that run through these three plays.Explores the relation between the plays and his social, political and literary theories, considering not only their polemical power, but also the ambiguities and complexities that make them vivid dramatic pieces not political pamphlets in theatrical form.Select Bibliography and Explanatory Notes Details ISBN0198803834 Author Sos Eltis Publisher Oxford University Press Series Oxford Worlds Classics Year 2021 ISBN-10 0198803834 ISBN-13 9780198803836 Language English Format Paperback Imprint Oxford University Press Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom Pages 400 Publication Date 2021-09-16 UK Release Date 2021-09-16 NZ Release Date 2021-09-16 Edited by Sos Eltis DEWEY 822.912 Audience General AU Release Date 2021-03-10 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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Book Title: Mrs Warren's Profession, Candida, and You Never Can Tell
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Author: George Bernard Shaw
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Language: English
Topic: Plays
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Year: 2021
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Number of Pages: 400 Pages