Bernard Shaw

V etot sbornik voshli tri pesy Bernarda Shou, posvjaschennykh teme, neizmenno zanimavshej velikogo dramaturga v techenie vsego ego dolgogo tvorcheskogo puti, - teme sotsialnykh nedostatkov, nepredskazuemosti chelovecheskoj natury i dvojstvennosti chelovecheskoj dushi."Dom, gde razbivajutsja serdtsa" - odna iz "vizitnykh kartochek" Shou, ostroumnaja i tonkaja tragikomedija nravov britanskogo svetskogo obschestva posle Pervoj mirovoj vojny, na kotoruju avtora vdokhnovila, po ego sobstvennym slovam, dramaturgija Chekhova."Professija missis Uorren" - naprotiv, odna iz samykh pechalnykh pes Shou: ved ee zaglavnaja geroinja shla na vesma neblagovidnye postupki, chtoby obespechit luchshuju zhizn svoej docheri, i v itoge byla etoj docherju otvergnuta. Pesa byla priznana beznravstvennoj i do 1902 goda zapreschalas dlja postanovki na stsene.Politicheskij grotesk "Gorko, no pravda" - besposchadnyj prigovor, kotoryj avtor vynosit britanskim intellektualam poslevoennogo vremeni -"pogibshim dusham, kotorye opuskajutsja v bezdnu", na chikh vzgljadakh, kharakterakh i povedenii skazalos protivoestestvennoe ustrojstvo zhizni.SoderzhanieProfessija missis Uorren. Dom, gde razbivajutsja serdtsa. Gorko, no pravda

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One of Bernard Shaw's early plays of social protest, Mrs Warren's Profession places the protagonist's decision to become a prostitute in the context of the appalling conditions for working class women in Victorian England. Faced with ill health, poverty, and marital servitude on the one hand, and opportunities for financial independence, dignity, and self-worth on the other, Kitty Warren follows her sister into a successful career in prostitution. Shaw's fierce social criticism in this play is driven not by conventional morality, but by anger at the hypocrisy that allows society to condemn prostitution while condoning the discrimination against women that makes prostitution inevitable. This Broadview edition includes a comprehensive historical and critical introduction; extracts from Shaw's prefaces to the play; Shaw's expurgations of the text; early reviews of the play in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain; and contemporary contextual documents on prostitution, incest, censorship, women's education, and the "New Woman."