George Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Warren’s Profession

George Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Warren’s Profession

Please choose ONE of the following topics and respond with your not-too-heavily quoted (please, everyone, work on paraphrasing!) non-Wikipedia research (which should be properly cited). 

1) You MUST include your citation (like a URL) to your source; and 2) ALSO a piece of DIRECT QUOTE to report research, with introductory/transitional phrasing in your own language. 

When you take even 3-4 words directly from a research source, you MUST place those between quotation marks.  For instance, you might write something like: According to History.com, Henry VIII’s first wife Catherine of Aragon was “demoted for bearing no son.”  Do you see how words you took directly from another source are placed within quotation marks?  You MUST to do this, or you risk a plagiarism charge.  Since you are being asked to conduct research, it’s perfectly fine that you are reading other sources, but you need to get in the habit of reporting and crediting your sources correctly.

Please note: Any time you use another source, you must use quotation marks around words taken from them and credit your source each and every time you use their ideas or words.  Do NOT borrow a large chunk from someone else and then just drop a citation at the end of your post.  That will not receive any credit.

Shaw had a most illustrious career, and you might discover that you know more of his works than you realized. Please research and identify three significant plays he wrote, and write more fully about just ONE of those three plays. For starters, you might write about WHY that work is well-known, or controversial, or significant in dealing with social issues. 

Mrs. Warren’s Profession was written in 1894, but it wasn’t dramatized in theatres immediately. Please do some digging into this play, and report back what you learned about the controversies regarding the staging of this play. (Hint: You could also read “The Author’s Apology” for more information.)