Mrs Warren's Profession

George Bernard Shaw

⏱ 8 minDrama

A cool, capable young woman discovers that her comfortable education was paid for by her mother's brothels, and forgives the poverty that first drove her mother to it but not her choosing to continue. Shaw's fierce, long-banned social play.

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