Getting Married

<p>Getting Married is a play by George Bernard Shaw. First performed in 1908 it features a cast of family members who gather together for a marriage. The play analyses and satirises the status of marriage in Shaw's day with a particular focus on the necessity of liberalising divorce laws. </p><p><br></p><p>The preface to the published version of Getting Married is essentially a discussion of the future of marriage. Shaw takes the view that Marriage remains practically inevitable as the alternatives have too many disadvantages. In a future society he argued there could be no practicable replacement for marriage neither individually negotiated deals or unconstrained free love. Despite this there was a very pressing question of improving its conditions. Shaw went on to argue for sensible divorce laws to would protect the welfare of adults and children.</p><p><br></p><p>Shaw notes that the form of the play adopts the classical unities saying the Greek form is inevitable when drama reaches a certain point in poetic and intellectual evolution. (wikipedia.org)</p><p><br></p>