George Bernard Shaw
The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet A Sermon in Crude Melodrama
Published by Good Press, 2020
EAN 4064066427726
Table of Contents
The story of the Joint Select Committee
Why the managers love the censorship
The peers on the Joint Select Committee
The Committee's attitude toward the theatre
A rare and curious first edition
Mr. George Alexander's protest
Shall the examiner of plays starve?
Judges: Their professional limitations
In 1909 Shaw jousted with governmental censorship, as personified by The Examiner Of Plays, an agency acting under the auspices of the Lord Chamberlain. The outcome, unsatisfactory to Shaw, is reviewed minutely in the Preface to this play, which had been refused a license to perform because it dealt openly with prostitution.
Shaw describes the play as a religious tract in dramatic form. Blanco Posnet, the protagonist is wrongfully accused of horse-theft and sentenced to be hanged. By great good-fortune he is rescued by the testimony of a female witness, Feemy—the local harlot—for whom he has uncharacteristically performed an act of charity. His exoneration is spiritually transforming: His status changes abruptly from pariah to pillar of the community. He does not marry Feemy, but shakes hands with her before they part.
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