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| Posted by: dramedy 12:30 pm EDT 04/23/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Pygmalion—do you think professor and Eliza have a chaste relationship - nyc23 12:12 pm EDT 04/23/20 | |
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| Clearly focuses on prostitution in that era. So I don’t think it is that far fetched that another play of his has a sexual subtext. Shakespeare plays have been analyzed by scholars for centuries from every different angle, i doubt Shaw has been ignored. |
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| re: Mrs Warren profession | |
| Last Edit: nyc23 12:48 pm EDT 04/23/20 | |
| Posted by: nyc23 12:47 pm EDT 04/23/20 | |
| In reply to: Mrs Warren profession - dramedy 12:30 pm EDT 04/23/20 | |
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| I don’t recall any textual hints of a sexual relationship in the text, but it has been so long, I’d have to reread it. Edit: In Pygmalion, of course. | |
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| It may not be in the text. | |
| Posted by: dramedy 12:56 pm EDT 04/23/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Mrs Warren profession - nyc23 12:47 pm EDT 04/23/20 | |
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| Just the fact that professor moves a woman into his bachelor household in 1900 is probably not normal behavior and would have the neighbors talking. | |
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| Because it's part of what makes the situation comic. | |
| Posted by: tmdonahue (tmdonahue@yahoo.com) 03:40 pm EDT 04/23/20 | |
| In reply to: It may not be in the text. - dramedy 12:56 pm EDT 04/23/20 | |
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| That the professor moving a women into his bachelor household is weird, unexpected, comic. That Higgins' response to this beautiful and over-the-course-of-the-play blossoming young woman is comically wrong. The audience falls in love with her. Higgins, not so much. Modern critics might write that Higgins is clearly homosexual. That would be wrong-headed too. He is a clownish character, with totally unusual reactions, which make him comic. Shaw was, he writes in the afterword to a later edition, often asked what became of Eliza. Supposedly to answer that, he wrote a long, detailed, pedantic afterword. I may be alone in thinking this, but I think the afterword is itself a joke, ribbing people who cannot accept ambiguity. The afterword has no humor in it and is, to me, less satisfying than not knowing what happens after the curtain comes down. Some folks want to know what happened to Nora after the door slammed ending Ibsen's "A Doll's House." What happened to Happy and Biff after "Death of a Salesman"? Where did Tom Wingfield go after Laura blows out her candles? Etc. |
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