Plays Unpleasant

With Plays Unpleasant, Shaw issued a radical challenge to his audiences'' complacency and exposed social evils through his dramatization of the moral conflicts between youthful idealism and economic reality, promiscuity and marriage, and the duties of women to others and to themselves. His first play, Widowers'' Houses, depicts Harry Trench''s dilemma on learning that the inheritance of his fiancé...