Widowers’ Houses
play by Shaw
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development of comic style
- In dramatic literature: Drama and communal belief
…themes as slum landlordism (Widowers’ Houses, 1892) and prostitution (Mrs. Warren’s Profession, 1902), resulted only in failure, but Shaw quickly found a comic style that was more disarming. In his attack on false patriotism (Arms and the Man, 1894) and the motives for middle-class marriage (Candida, 1897), he does…
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discussed in biography
- In George Bernard Shaw: First plays
…rapidly refurbished an abortive comedy, Widowers’ Houses, as a play recognizably “Ibsenite” in tone, making it turn on the notorious scandal of slum landlordism in London. The result (performed 1892) flouted the threadbare romantic conventions that were still being exploited even by the most daring new playwrights. In the play…
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