PROSTITUTION IN MRS WARREN’S PROFESSION (1894) AND BERNARD SHAW’S AESTHETIC, PHILOSOPHICAL AND POLITICAL SOURCES

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In the last quarter of the nineteenth century England prostitution had become one of the most morally and politically charged social issues. The plays, novels and the short storiess of the era produced a “fallen woman” cliche, almost a scapegoat who had to carry the whole guilt and sin on her back. George Bernard Shaw with his 1894 play Mrs arren’s Professsion called the society to face its own responsibility in the matter, leaving aside hypocrisy to see the real roots of the problem. In Shaw’s approach to this social problem as an intellectual and writer we see the traces of many aesthetic, philosophical and poltitical sources. This article aims to establish how writers like Ibsen, Shelley, Maupassant and philosophical and political standpoints such as creative evolution and socialist feminism influence the way Shaw discusses prostitution in Mrs Warren’s Profession.

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Fabian socialism , feminism , creative evolution , late Victorian era , prostitution , George bernard Shaw , Mrs Warren’s Profession , The Second Mrs Tanqueray

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