Research Article

Dramatic and Political Recognition in Mrs Warren’s Profession

Volume: 18 December 31, 2019
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Dramatic and Political Recognition in Mrs Warren’s Profession

Abstract

This study aims to explore the connection between Bernard Shaw’s third play Mrs Warren’s Profession(1893) and the classical topos of recognition, as expressed by Aristotle and as developed by later commentators. From the very beginning of his career as a playwright with The Widowers’s HousesShaw’s plays contain many different layers of recognition. In the case of Mrs Warren’s Professionthe play vibrates on the social, political, moral, cultural and dramatic levels. Mrs Warren’s Professionabounds with characters who pass from ignorance to knowledge. Recognition as a concept presents a wide range of uses from Aristotle’s anagnorisis as a major dramatic device to Hegel’s use of recognition as an essential human need to be satisfied, to Markell’s use of the term as a politically motivated concept. Exploring how the characters of the play passes through all these layers of recognition in the play, this study attempts to interpret the play from the recognition perspective which has not been tried by earlier students of the play.  

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References

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Literary Studies

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

December 31, 2019

Submission Date

July 15, 2019

Acceptance Date

December 11, 2019

Published in Issue

Year 2019 Volume: 18

APA
Gündüz, A. (2019). Dramatic and Political Recognition in Mrs Warren’s Profession. Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 18, 50-59. https://doi.org/10.21547/jss.592018
AMA
1.Gündüz A. Dramatic and Political Recognition in Mrs Warren’s Profession. GAUN-JSS. 2019;18:50-59. doi:10.21547/jss.592018
Chicago
Gündüz, Atalay. 2019. “Dramatic and Political Recognition in Mrs Warren’s Profession”. Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 18 (December): 50-59. https://doi.org/10.21547/jss.592018.
EndNote
Gündüz A (December 1, 2019) Dramatic and Political Recognition in Mrs Warren’s Profession. Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 18 50–59.
IEEE
[1]A. Gündüz, “Dramatic and Political Recognition in Mrs Warren’s Profession”, GAUN-JSS, vol. 18, pp. 50–59, Dec. 2019, doi: 10.21547/jss.592018.
ISNAD
Gündüz, Atalay. “Dramatic and Political Recognition in Mrs Warren’s Profession”. Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 18 (December 1, 2019): 50-59. https://doi.org/10.21547/jss.592018.
JAMA
1.Gündüz A. Dramatic and Political Recognition in Mrs Warren’s Profession. GAUN-JSS. 2019;18:50–59.
MLA
Gündüz, Atalay. “Dramatic and Political Recognition in Mrs Warren’s Profession”. Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, vol. 18, Dec. 2019, pp. 50-59, doi:10.21547/jss.592018.
Vancouver
1.Atalay Gündüz. Dramatic and Political Recognition in Mrs Warren’s Profession. GAUN-JSS. 2019 Dec. 1;18:50-9. doi:10.21547/jss.592018