Widowers' Houses

Widowers' Houses (1892)
by George Bernard Shaw

information about this edition.

Widowers' Houses (1892) was the first of George Bernard Shaw's plays to be staged. It is one of the three plays Shaw published as Plays Unpleasant in 1898. It was deemed "unpleasant" because its purpose is not to entertain its audience—as the traditional Victorian theatre was expected to do—but to raise awareness of social problems and to censure the exploitation of the poor by the unproductive upper class.

178538Widowers' Houses1892George Bernard Shaw

Widowers' Houses: A Play By Bernard Shaw. (1884-1892)

Constable and Company Ltd. London: 1914.

Printed by R. & R. CLARK, LIMITED, Edinburgh.

Act I

Act II

Act III

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.

This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse

Widowers' Houses

Navigation menu

Search