Author(s)

Zhang You ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ College of Foreign Languages, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China

Corresponding Author

Zhang You

ABSTRACT

George Bernard Shaw is one of the most eminent playwrights in history. Shaw is a feminist and many of his plays are widely studied from the feminist perspective. This paper focuses on one of his masterpieces, Mrs. Warren's Profession, and explores the feminist ideas in it by an analysis of the two main female characters: Vivie and Mrs. Warren. As a stupendous play, the performance of it is not a smooth-running one, and the result of it is firstly controversial but later well received. And its influence is far-fetching and its contribution to the feminist movement is great.

KEYWORDS

Mrs, Warren's profession, Feminism, Court theatre, Performance

CITE THIS PAPER

Zhang You. A Feminist Reading of George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession. Art and Performance Letters (2021) 2: 5-9. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/artpl.2021.020402

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