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The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet

Bernard Shaw

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .I write plays with the deliberate object of converting the nation to my opinions in these matters. I have no other effectual incentive to write plays, as I am not dependent on the theatre for my livelihood. If I were prevented from producing immoral and heretical plays, I should cease to write for the theatre, and propagate my views from the platform and through books. I mention these facts to shew that I have a special interest in the achievement by my profession of those rights of liberty of speech and conscience which are matters of course in other professions. I object to censorship not merely because the existing form of it grievously injures and hinders me individually, but on public grounds.

THE DEFINITION OF IMMORALITY

In dealing with the question of the censorship, everything depends on the correct use of the word immorality, and a careful discrimination between the powers of a magistrate or judge to administer a code, and those of a censor to please hims. . . Read More

Community Reviews

3.00
- Andrew - Jan 21, 2022

It could have been a good Howard Hawkes or Billy Wilder movie, I think, but this one-act play by Shaw sort of leaves my television-oriented mind as quickly as it entered it.

5.00
- Mac - Jan 16, 2019

"The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet" was an interesting little play. It is set in a sort of mythic American Wild West. Much of it comprises a trial of the title character, Blanco Posnet, on the charge of stealing the sheriff's horse. It turns out he did steal the horse, but he thought it belonged to hi

4.00
- Eskil - Oct 25, 2018

Foreleseren vår sa at det er en teori om at Shaw bare skrev stykket her så han kunne ha med det 70 sider lange forordet, og det er sannelig ikke en dum teori, for det er minst like underholdende som selve stykket. I forordet går han sterkt ut mot literær sensurering, og særlig The Lord Chamberlain's

5.00
- John Longmore - Aug 27, 2017

Mysterious fate?

Great work by Shaw... Life can Bea joke on us with the words from others. Never let it be said life's not mysterious.

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