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Title: Woman on Her Own, False Gods & The Red Robe
Three Plays By Brieux

Author: Eugene Brieux

Translator: Mrs. Bernard Shaw
J. F. Fagan
A. Bernard Miall

Release Date: November 8, 2008 [EBook #27201]

Language: English

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WOMAN ON HER OWN, FALSE
GODS AND THE RED ROBE:

THREE PLAYS BY BRIEUX.

THE ENGLISH VERSIONS BY MRS.
BERNARD SHAW, J. F. FAGAN,
AND A. BERNARD MIALL. WITH
AN INTRODUCTION BY BRIEUX

BRENTANO'S NEW YORK
MCMXVI

_Copyright, 1916, by Brentano's_

THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.

CONTENTS

Preface vii

Woman On Her Own 1

False Gods 127

The Red Robe 219

PREFACE

We are confronted at the present time by the woman who is anxious to lay
by means for her own support irrespective of the protection of her
husband. In this play I have indicated the tendency of this difficulty
and the consequent troubles which the older civilizations will bring
upon themselves when the woman's standing as a worker is generally
acknowledged. My conclusion, namely, that all these complications and
troubles are, at present at any rate, owing to the education of the man,
points to the remedy, as far as I can see it.

I must inform my readers that the version of LA FEMME SEULE, a
translation of which is now published in this volume, has, so far, not
appeared in France and is unknown there; at least as regards the larger
part of the third act. I might, did I think it advisable, reproduce in
its entirety a text which certain timidities have led me to emasculate.

As between the man and the woman the ideal situation would, no doubt, be
a rehabilitation of the old custom--the man at the workshop and the
woman in the home; thus reserving for her the holiest and most