CiNii 図書 - The shewing-up of Blanco Posnet ; and, Fanny's first play : definitive text

'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 Censorship
A Readable Bluebook
How Not To Do It
The Story of The Joint Select Committee
Why the Managers Love the Censorship
A Two Guinea Insurance Policy
Why the Government Interfered
The Peers on the Joint Select Committee
The Committee's Attitude towards the Theatre
A Bad Beginning
A Comic Interlude
An Anti-Shavian Panic
A Rare and Curious First Edition
The Times to the Rescue
The Council of Ten
The Sentence
The Execution
The Rejected Statement - Part I The Witness's Qualifications
The Definition of Immorality
What Toleration Means
The Case for Toleration
The Limits to Toleration
The Difference between Law and Censorship
Why the Lord Chamberlain?
The Diplomatic Objection to the Lord Chamberlain
The Objection of Court Etiquet
Why not an Enlightened Censorship?
The Weakness of the Lord Chamberlain's Department
An Enlightened Censorship still worse than the Lord Chamberlain 's
The Practical Impossibilities of Censorship
The Arbitration Proposal. The Rejected Statement - Part II The Licensing of Theatres - The Distinction between Licensing and Censorship
Prostitution and Drink in Theatres
Why the Managers dread Local Control
Desirable Limitations of Local Control
Summary of the Rejected Statement
Preface resumed - Mr George Alexander's Protest
Eliza and Her Bath
A King's Proctor
Counsel's Opinion
Wanted: A New Magna Charta
Proposed: A New Star Chamber
Possibilities of the Proposal
Star Chamber Sentimentality
Anything for a Quiet Life
Shall the Examiner of Plays Starve?
Lord Gorell's Awakening
Judges: Their Professional Limitations
Conclusion
Postscript.

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