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flower ([personal profile] neonpossibilities) wrote in [community profile] booknook2025-04-16 11:58 am
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RIP (Read In Progress) Wednesday

It's Wednesday!

What are you reading?
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[personal profile] spiralsheep 2025-04-17 11:40 am (UTC)(link)
A Woman of No Importance is the only one of the four I don't recall ever seeing.

Have you read / seen Mrs Warren's Profession, 1893, by George Bernard Shaw? Definately more comedy than melodrama and yet not lacking dramatic events.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs._Warren%27s_Profession
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[personal profile] pedanther 2025-04-18 11:03 am (UTC)(link)
Wikipedia says it's the least often revived or adapted of Wilde's plays, and I think I can see why; it doesn't quite come together, I think. It has some oft-quoted lines in it, though I realised afterward that the reason one of them was so familiar was that Wilde recycled it in Earnest.

I have not read or seen Mrs Warren's Profession, but it's been on the list to get around to one of these days.
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[personal profile] spiralsheep 2025-04-18 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
One less than perfect play out of four is a hit rate most playwrights would envy.

I was lucky enough to see Felicity Kendal as Mrs Warren and she absolutely made the role live.