A powerful, high-spirited comedy, Mrs. Warren's Profession centers on Vivie Warren, a very smart and practical modern young woman, and her mother who has never shared with her daughter the secret that she has earned the money to pay for her comfortable upbringing in the world's oldest profession. This provocative, passionate, and witty classic, featuring a stimulating battle of ideas about women's opportunities and society's hypocrisy about money and respectability, shows a great writer just as he was discovering his unique voice.