The Resurgence of Ideology in Bernard Shaw’s Mrs Warren’s Profession (1893)
In the last of his Plays Unpleasant, Shaw delves into the economic roots of prostitution, deconstructing the woman-with-a-past sham and its underlying conservative ideology. The socialist playwright and theorist seeks to lay the blame on the capitalist system and on a middle-class public all too eag...
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