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The Author's Apology from Mrs. Warren's Profession
The Author's Apology from Mrs Warren's Profession Author:Bernard Shaw The Tyranny of Police and Press· X an ans,ver to the critics of the press, and to the Nev York Conunissioner of Police, ,vho drove Arnold Daly's production of lIrs. 'Varren's Profession fron1 the imcrican stage, lIr. Bernard Shaw hcrevith republishes the "Author's Apology" ",rhich he issued in London on a not dissimilar occasion, in J anual'Y, 1... more »902. As I have questioned the value of the play, both as regards the doctrine it urges and as a work of art, I am not ,vithout misgiving as to my fitness to stand sponsor before the Alnerican public for the author's defense of it .. There are Inany and prominent l.mericans vho have the advantage of lne in thinking vell of it. One of our forClnost dramatists, Augustus Thomas, thinks this the rnost vi(!orons and vital thing Shaw 'Reprinted in part from the New York Sun, November 5, JiO~ with permission. Vhen this article was wl'itten ad not read ':lr. Shaw's Apology.
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