The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet

The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet PDF Author: Bernard Shaw
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet

The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet PDF Author: Bernard Shaw
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet: With Preface on the Censorship

The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet: With Preface on the Censorship PDF Author: Bernard Shaw
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781018933528
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet: With Preface on the Censorship

The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet: With Preface on the Censorship PDF Author: Bernard Shaw
Publisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9780526038503
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 124

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet

The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet PDF Author: Bernard Shaw
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368345001
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet

The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet PDF Author: Bernard Shaw
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Category : Censorship
Languages : en
Pages : 138

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The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet

The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet PDF Author: Bernard Shaw
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 336834501X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet - With Preface on the Censorship

The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet - With Preface on the Censorship PDF Author: George Bernard Shaw
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473349559
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 117

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"The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet: A Sermon in Crude Melodrama" is a 1909 play in one act by George Bernard Shaw. Described by Shaw as a religious tract in dramatic form, it was originally refused a performance licence due to comments made by the protagonist about God, considered blasphemous at the time. George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 - 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright, polemicist and critic. He had a significant influence on Western theatre, politics, and culture, and wrote more than sixty plays during his career. Shaw received the 1925 Nobel Prize in Literature and shared the 1938 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, which he won for the film adaptation of "Pygmalion". Other notable works by this author include: "The Admirable Bashville " (1901), "Androcles and the Lion" (1912), and "Saint Joan" (1923). Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet

The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet PDF Author: Bernard Shaw
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Languages : en
Pages : 125

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The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet and Fanny's First Play

The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet and Fanny's First Play PDF Author: Dan Laurence
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141963697
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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‘A tearing, flaring, revivalist drama’ was how Desmond MacCarthy described The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet. Set in America’s Wild West and aptly subtitled ‘A Sermon in Crude Melodrama’, this single-act play concerns the conversion of a horse thief desperate to ‘keep the devil’ in him and die game. Published in 1909, it brought Shaw into conflict with the Lord Chamberlain of England, who banned it on the grounds of alleged blasphemy, and it was twelve years before the play was performed in a London theatre. In an interview Shaw commented, ‘I am sorry that Fanny’s First Play has destroyed the cherished legend that I am an unpopular playwright ... for the first time I have allowed a play of mine to run itself to death ... And the worst of it is it will not die.’ First performed in 1911, the play is a delightful farce in which Shaw debates some of his favourite subjects: middle-class morality, marriage, parents and children and women’s rights. And, deliberately concealing his authorship, Shaw took the opportunity to satirize contemporary drama critics who, he claimed, ‘do not know dramatic chalk from dramatic cheese when it is no longer labelled for them.’

The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet

The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet PDF Author: Bernard Shaw
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781484993019
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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This little play is really a religious tract in dramatic form. If our silly censorship would permit its performance, it might possibly help to set right-side-up the perverted conscience and re-invigorate the starved self-respect of our considerable class of loose-lived playgoers whose point of honor is to deride all official and conventional sermons. As it is, it only gives me an opportunity of telling the story of the Select Committee of both Houses of Parliament which sat last year to enquire into the working of the censorship, against which it was alleged by myself and others that as its imbecility and mischievousness could not be fully illustrated within the limits of decorum imposed on the press, it could only be dealt with by a parliamentary body subject to no such limits.