Eighteenth-Century Literary Precursors of "Mrs Warren's Profession."
Bernard Shaw's "Mrs Warren's Profession" is almost solely discussed in terms of its portrayal of prostitution in relation to the theatre of its day. In this light, his work is defined as a decisive break with what came before it. But Shaw warned against this tendency to label literature that challen...
| Publicado en: | University of Toronto Quarterly Vol. 81; no. 2; pp. 187 - 208 |
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