Shaw, George Bernard, 1856-1950 / 2008-07-02 00:00:00
EBOOK GETTING MARRIED ***
Etext prepared by Eve Sobol, South Bend, Indiana, USA,
and Distributed Proofreaders
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Transcriber's Note -- The edition from which this play was taken
was printed without most contractions, such as dont for don't and
so forth. These have been left as printed in the original text.
Also, abbreviated honorifics have no trailing period, and the word
show is spelt shew.
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GETTING MARRIED, PREFACE TO
Bernard Shaw
1908
THE REVOLT AGAINST MARRIAGE
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and
thought than marriage. If the mischief stopped at talking and
thinking it would be bad enough; but it goes further, into
disastrous anarchical action. Because our marriage law is inhuman
and unreasonable to the point of downright abomination, the bolder
and more rebellious spirits form illicit unions, defiantly sending
cards round to their friends announcing what they have
done. Young women come to me and ask me whether I think they ought
to consent to marry the man they have decided to live with; and
they are perplexed and astonished when I, who am supposed (heaven
knows why!) to have the most advanced views attainable on the
subject, urge them on no account to compromize themselves without
the security of an authentic wedding ring.
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