... bestseller. MODERN DRAMA TO 1945 Henrik Ibsen's play Ghosts, given a single performance in 1891, was famously described as 'an open sewer', because of its theme of hereditary syphilis. George Bernard Shaw, a champion of the Norwegian Ibsen, himself began to write plays on similarly controversial themes: MrsWarren's Profession is about prostitution. It was not allowed a full public performance until ... whether of the earlier writers they examined or of later writing. D.H. LAWRENCE Another distinctively modern writer for whom the phrase 'only connect' had considerable signific...

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