The Philanderer

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The Philanderer

The Philanderer is a play by George Bernard Shaw.

It was written in 1893 but the strict British Censorship laws at the time meant that it was not produced on stage until 1902.

It is one of the three plays Shaw published as Plays Unpleasant in 1898, alongside Widowers' Houses and Mrs Warren's Profession. The volume was written to raise awareness of social problems and criticize capitalist behaviour. The influence of Naturalist playwrights is evident by Shaw's constant reference to Ibsen in the play. The Naturalist theatre movement was a reaction to Melodrama, the Victorian theatre tradition of the time.

In performance

The Philanderer at the Internet Broadway Database

v t e The plays of George Bernard Shaw

Passion Play Un Petit Drame Widowers' Houses The Philanderer Mrs. Warren's Profession Arms and the Man Candida The Man of Destiny You Never Can Tell The Devil's Disciple The Gadfly Caesar and Cleopatra Captain Brassbound's Conversion The Admirable Bashville Man and Superman John Bull's Other Island How He Lied to Her Husband Major Barbara Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction The Doctor's Dilemma The Interlude at the Playhouse Getting Married The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet Press Cuttings Fascinating Foundling The Glimpse of Reality Misalliance The Dark Lady of the Sonnets Fanny's First Play Androcles and the Lion Overruled Beauty's Duty Pygmalion Great Catherine The Music Cure O'Flaherty V.C. The Inca of Perusalem Augustus Does His Bit Macbeth Skit Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress Heartbreak House Back to Methuselah A Glimpse of the Domesticity of Franklin Barnabas Jitta's Atonement Saint Joan The Apple Cart Too True to Be Good How These Doctors Love One Another! Village Wooing On the Rocks The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles The Six of Calais The Millionairess Arthur and the Acetone Cymbeline Refinished Geneva In Good King Charles's Golden Days The British Party System Buoyant Billions Farfetched Fables Shakes versus Shav Why She Would Not

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