by Bernard Shaw · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140480122
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«Plays Unpleasant» is Bernard Shaw's collection of plays, published by Penguin in paperback (288 pages, in English).
Three plays by Shaw denounce Victorian hypocrisy: in 'Widowers' Houses', a young man discovers that his fiancée's inheritance comes from rents on unsanitary housing; in 'The Philanderer', a seducer is torn between two women; in 'Mrs Warren's Profession', a young woman investigates the origin of her education.
Penguin Plays collection. Definitive text under the supervision of Dan R. Laurence. The volume was originally published in 1898.
For readers of classic theatre and students of English literature interested in Shaw's social criticism.
George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1913) and Saint Joan (1923). With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and was awarded the 1925 Nobel Prize in Literature.
