Whew, this one was a slog. I'm pretty sure GBS had a point in writing this play, but I really have no idea what that point is. Lots of very unlikable characters.

This classic unpleasant play was written in 1898, though it was not staged until 1902 because of the strict British Censorship Laws.

The play starts with the leading character Leonard Charteris making love with Grace Tranfield. The play flows ceaselessly with these two characters until we are introdu

I really enjoy Shaw's plays – readable, clever and interesting.

An amusing commentary on marriage, and the new 'feminist' attitudes. The Manly women vs. the feminine women. It seems by the end of the play, no ideology is proved or disproved, but rather Shaw has made fun of the whole situation. Marriage is funny, and hopeless, and being a strong woman and allowi

A Question of Marriage
20 January 2018 - Singapore

Well, I've finally got my computer back, and the keyboard now works fine (though I'm not entirely sure how much longer this laptop is going to last since it is now over six years old). It was somewhat annoying, being in Singapore only to discover tha

This second play by Shaw (written in 1883 but not performed until 1902, when censorship permitted) is a daring effort for its time. Indeed, it might even by considered to have contemporary relevance, for it deals—among other matters—with sexual politics and animal testing (or, as the Victorians woul

Women - and too, enlightened men - were in favour of women's education, property and voting rights, enfranchisement, suffragists demanding and chaining themselves. many identified these movements with left for obvious reasons - it seemed against interest of any conservatives to lose any source of fr

One of the hard things about appreciating Shaw, particularly an older,less famous play such as the Philanderer, is overcoming a pile of prejudice and misinformation which includes Shaw's supposed asexuality, the assumed social naïveté of a play written in 1893, the "unpleasantness" of the play, and