Three Plays by Brieux

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A second Brieux collection, including Damaged Goods (Les Avariés) — his most notorious play, about syphilis and the lies that perpetuate it in bourgeois marriage — which was banned in France and caused scandals across Europe. Shaw championed Brieux as the world's most important living dramatist on the strength of plays like this one; the assessment has not entirely survived, but Damaged Goods retains its power as a document of how sexual silence enables disease. The play was used as public health propaganda in multiple countries.