Mrs. Warren’s Profession | A Shavian Whodunit: The Mysterious Mrs. Warren
In the following essay, Bermel puts his experience teaching Mrs. Warren’s Profession in a university setting to work to solve the mystery of Vivie’s paternity.
Kitty Warren soldiers on. At age 107 she flourishes, despite the unpromising start of her career. When I teach Bernard Shaw’s third play, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, that feminist landmark, students in the introductory class, The Art of the Theatre, consist mostly of Latinas in their twenties and thirties; a number are single mothers. They work during the day and take night classes at Lehman College, New York’s public university in the Bronx. They know deprivation, but little about the slums of late-Victorian London, in which Kitty grew up. Reading the play, they’ve learned...
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