Plays Unpleasant (2000)
Plays Unpleasant
“Indeed all attractive unpropertied women lose money by being infallibly virtuous or contracting marriages that are not more or less venal. If on the large social scale we get what we call vice instead of what we call virtue it is simply because we are paying more for it. No normal woman would be a professional prostitute if she could better herself by being respectable, nor marry for money if she could afford to marry for love.
Also I desired to expose the fact that prostitution is not only car...ried on without organization by individual enterprise in the lodgings of solitary women, each her own mistress as well as every customer’s mistress, but organized and exploited as a big international commerce for the profit of capitalists like any other commerce, and very lucrative to great city estates, including Church estates, through the rents of the houses in which it is practised.
I could not have done anything more injurious to my prospects at the outset of my career. My play was immediately stigmatized by the Lord Chamberlain, who by Act of Parliament has despotic and even supermonarchical power over our theatres, as ‘immoral and otherwise improper for the stage’.MoreLess
Also I desired to expose the fact that prostitution is not only car...ried on without organization by individual enterprise in the lodgings of solitary women, each her own mistress as well as every customer’s mistress, but organized and exploited as a big international commerce for the profit of capitalists like any other commerce, and very lucrative to great city estates, including Church estates, through the rents of the houses in which it is practised.
I could not have done anything more injurious to my prospects at the outset of my career. My play was immediately stigmatized by the Lord Chamberlain, who by Act of Parliament has despotic and even supermonarchical power over our theatres, as ‘immoral and otherwise improper for the stage’.MoreLess
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