Description
From the Back Cover
With Plays Unpleasant, Shaw challenged his audiences’ moral complacency. In Widowers’ Houses, Harry Trench is engaged to brisk Blanche Sartorius. When he realizes that her father is a slum landlord, Harry questions whether he and Blanche have a future together. In The Philanderer, charismatic Leonard Charteris proposes marriage to Grace, while still involved with the beautiful Julia Craven. But Julia is not inclined to surrender him so easily. While in Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Vivie is forced to reconsider the direction of her own life when she discovers that it is her mother’s immoral earnings which have paid for her genteel upbringing. These plays, as David Edgar says, deal with ‘the conflict between youthful ideals and economic realities, the drawbacks of promiscuity and the perils of matrimony, the duties of women to others and themselves, the necessity for and the costs of revolt. What could be more eternal than that?’
Publishing Info
Plays Unpleasant by Bernard Shaw with Introduction by David Edgar. From Penguin Books in 2000. The ISBN is 0-14-043793-2. This paperback script measures about 7-3/4″ x 5″ and has 291 numbered pages in glued binding.
Condition
See photo above. Some lighter handling/storage on the covers which include a few creases. The spine has one reading crease that did not break the binding. The pages are toning naturally from age but are in very nice condition. No personal names or markings. The currently has light “musty basement” smell. From clean, smoke-free theatrical home.
Shipping
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