Mrs. Warren’s Profession boldly confronts two contemporary women’s issues: the future professional careers of educated, would-be independent women, and the oldest profession, female prostitution.
The social and economic aspects of prostitution attracted the attention of Shaw, and he boldly dramatized it in the theme of Mrs. Warren’s Profession. In Arms and the Man Shaw stripped war of heroism and of all its romantic glamour. Widower’s House was a deep examination of slum landlordism.