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Getting Married

Bernard Shaw

When a bride and groom each discover a troubling pamphlet about marriage laws on their wedding day, they refuse to proceed with the ceremony.

"Getting Married" by Bernard Shaw is a play. When a bride and groom each discover a troubling pamphlet about marriage laws on their wedding day, they refuse to proceed with the ceremony.

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The answer to this question is an answer which everybody knows and nobody likes to give. What is driving our ministers of religion and statesmen to blurt it out at last is the plain fact that marriage is now beginning to depopulate the country with such alarming rapidity that we are forced to throw aside our modesty like people who, awakened by an alarm of fire, rush into the streets in their nightdresses or in no dresses at all. The fictitious Free Lover, who was supposed to attack marriage because it thwarted his inordinate affections and prevented him from making life a carnival, has vanished and given place to the very real, very strong, very austere avenger of outraged decency who declares that the licentiousness of marriage, now that it no longer recruits the race, is destroying it.

As usual, this change of front has not yet been noticed by our newspaper controversialists and by the suburban season-ticket holders whose minds the newspapers make. They still defend the citadel on the side on which nobody is attacking it, and leave its weakest front undefended.

Contents

  1. 01Preface to Getting Married
  2. 02The Revolt Against Marriage
  3. 03Marriage Nevertheless Inevitable
  4. 04What Does the Word Marriage Mean
  5. 05Survivals of Sex Slavery
  6. 06A New Attack on Marriage
  7. 07A Forgotten Conference of Married Men
  8. 08Hearth and Home
  9. 09Too Much of a Good Thing
  10. 10Large and Small Families
  11. 11The Gospel of Laodicea
  12. 12For Better for Worse
  13. 13Wanted: An Immoral Statesman
  14. 14The Limits of Democracy
  15. 15The Science and Art of Politics
  16. 16Why Statesmen Shirk the Marriage Question
  17. 17The Question of Population
  18. 18The Right to Motherhood
  19. 19Monogamy, Polygyny and Polyandry
  20. 20The Male Revolt Against Polygyny
  21. 21Difference Between Oriental and Occidental Polygyny
  22. 22The Old Maid's Right to Motherhood
  23. 23Ibsen's Chain Stitch
  24. 24Remoteness of the Facts from the Ideal
  25. 25Difficulty of Obtaining Evidence
  26. 26Marriage as a Magic Spell
  27. 27The Impersonality of Sex
  28. 28The Economic Slavery of Women
  29. 29Unpopularity of Impersonal Views
  30. 30Impersonality Is Not Promiscuity
  31. 31Domestic Change of Air
  32. 32Home Manners Are Bad Manners
  33. 33Spurious "Natural" Affection
  34. 34Carrying the War Into the Enemy's Country
  35. 35Shelley and Queen Victoria
  36. 36A Probable Effect of Giving Women the Vote
  37. 37The Personal Sentimental Basis of Monogamy
  38. 38Divorce
  39. 39Importance of Sentimental Grievance
  40. 40Divorce Without Asking Why
  41. 41Economic Slavery Again the Root Difficulty
  42. 42Labor Exchanges and the White Slavery
  43. 43Christian Marriage
  44. 44Divorce a Sacramental Duty
  45. 45Othello and Desdemona
  46. 46What Is to Become of the Children?
  47. 47The Cost of Divorce
  48. 48Conclusions
  49. 49Getting Married
  50. 50By Bernard Shaw
  51. 511908
  52. 52_______________________________________________________________
  53. 53_______________________________________________________________

About this edition

Author
Bernard Shaw
Language
English
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
176 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers

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