[Next Project] Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw

[Christopher Hapka]

I'd like to tackle another Shaw play, one of his "problem plays"--shocking when published and banned from public performance in England for decades--with a preface about sex work.

Proposed cover is Toulouse-Lautrec's "An Englishman at the Moulin Rouge," CC0 at the Met Museum. The action of the play is pretty static and conventional drawing-room stuff, so I went for something that evokes the subject matter instead--the role of the demi-monde in the sex lives of respectable men of the period.

[Christopher Hapka]

Forgot to add:

Text at PG:  https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1097
Image at Hathi: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.32000000659575

[Alex Cabal]

OK, art looks good. Robin can you manage this with Weijia reviewing?

On 6/13/24 10:40 AM, Christopher Hapka wrote:
> I'd like to tackle another Shaw play, one of his "problem
> plays"--shocking when published and banned from public performance in
> England for decades--with a preface about sex work.
>
> Proposed cover is Toulouse-Lautrec's "An Englishman at the Moulin
> Rouge," CC0 at the Met Museum

> <https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437835>. The action of

> the play is pretty static and conventional drawing-room stuff, so I went
> for something that evokes the subject matter instead--the role of the
> demi-monde in the sex lives of respectable men of the period.
>

> cover.png
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[Robin Whittleton]

Yep.

> On 14 Jun 2024, at 22:05, Alex Cabal <al...@standardebooks.org> wrote:
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> OK, art looks good. Robin can you manage this with Weijia reviewing?

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[Christopher Hapka]

Here's the repo:

https://github.com/chapkachapka/george-bernard-shaw_mrs-warrens-profession

[Christopher Hapka]

A quick question on semantics.

On this page of the preface, there's a block quote from Dickens' Our Mutual Friend that includes discussion of the title of a book:

---

"...the first chapter of the first wollume of the Decline and Fall off⁠—” here he looked hard at the book, and stopped...

"I think you said Rooshan Empire, sir?”

“It is Rooshan; ain’t it, Wegg?”

“No, sir. Roman. Roman.”

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I assume I should add title semantics (name.publication.book) to "Decline and Fall off"? Should I do anything to the "Rooshan" and "Roman" later in the passage? Single quotes? Semantics?

[Robin Whittleton]

Italicise the part title, but you can leave the rest as is.

-Robin

On 17 Jun 2024, at 22:23, Christopher Hapka <ch...@hapka.com> wrote:

A quick question on semantics.

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