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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw: "anything immoral or otherwise improper for the stage." But let
nobody conclude therefore that Mr Redford is a monster, whose
policy it is to deprave the theatre. As a matter of fact, both
the above stories are strictly in order from the official point
of view. The incidents of sex which they contain, though carried
in both to the extreme point at which another step would be dealt
with, not by the King's Reader, but by the police, do not involve
adultery, nor any allusion to Mrs Warren's profession, nor to the
fact that the children of any polyandrous group will, when they
grow up, inevitably be confronted, as those of Mrs Warren's group
are in my play, with the insoluble problem of their own possible
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