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Plays Unpleasant: (Widowers' Houses, The Philanderer and Mrs. Warren's Profession)

George Bernard Shaw

Form
Form Play
Year
Year 1898
Pages
Pages 350

Shaw called them unpleasant on purpose. Their dramatic power, he wrote, was there to force the spectator to face unpleasant facts, and the facts he had in mind were the ones his audience quietly lived on.

I am my mother’s daughter. I am like you: I must have work, and must make more money than I spend.
Plays Unpleasant: (Widowers' Houses, The Philanderer and Mrs. Warren's Profession), George Bernard Shaw

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