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The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet

The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet

by Bernard Shaw

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Author
Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950
Credits
Eve Sobol and Distributed Proofreaders
Language
English
LoC Class
PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject
West (U.S.) -- Drama
Category
Text
eBook-No.
5722
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5722
Release Date
May 1, 2004
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.THE SHEWING-UP OF BLANCO POSNET
  2. 2.By Bernard Shaw — 1909
  3. 3.THE CENSORSHIP
  4. 4.A READABLE BLUEBOOK
  5. 5.HOW NOT TO DO IT
  6. 6.THE STORY OF THE JOINT SELECT COMMITTEE
  7. 7.WHY THE MANAGERS LOVE THE CENSORSHIP
  8. 8.A TWO GUINEA INSURANCE POLICY
  9. 9.WHY THE GOVERNMENT INTERFERED
  10. 10.THE PEERS ON THE JOINT SELECT COMMITTEE
  11. 11.THE COMMITTEE’S ATTITUDE TOWARD THE THEATRE
  12. 12.A BAD BEGINNING
  13. 13.A COMIC INTERLUDE
  14. 14.AN ANTI-SHAVIAN PANIC
  15. 15.A RARE AND CURIOUS FIRST EDITION
  16. 16.THE TIMES TO THE RESCUE
  17. 17.THE COUNCIL OF TEN
  18. 18.THE SENTENCE
  19. 19.THE EXECUTION
  20. 20.PART I — THE WITNESS’S QUALIFICATIONS
  21. 21.THE DEFINITION OF IMMORALITY
  22. 22.WHAT TOLERATION MEANS
  23. 23.THE CASE FOR TOLERATION
  24. 24.THE LIMITS TO TOLERATION
  25. 25.THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LAW AND CENSORSHIP
  26. 26.WHY THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN?
  27. 27.THE DIPLOMATIC OBJECTION TO THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN
  28. 28.THE OBJECTION OF COURT ETIQUET
  29. 29.WHY NOT AN ENLIGHTENED CENSORSHIP?
  30. 30.THE WEAKNESS OF THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN’S DEPARTMENT
  31. 31.AN ENLIGHTENED CENSORSHIP STILL WORSE THAN THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN’S
  32. 32.THE PRACTICAL IMPOSSIBILITIES OF CENSORSHIP
  33. 33.THE ARBITRATION PROPOSAL — END OF THE FIRST PART OF THE REJECTED STATEMENT.
  34. 34.THE REJECTED STATEMENT: PART TWO — THE LICENSING OF THEATRES — THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN LICENSING AND CENSORSHIP
  35. 35.PROSTITUTION AND DRINK IN THEATRES
  36. 36.WHY THE MANAGERS DREAD LOCAL CONTROL
  37. 37.DESIRABLE LIMITATIONS OF LOCAL CONTROL
  38. 38.SUMMARY
  39. 39.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
  40. 40.CONCLUSION — AYOT ST. LAWRENCE, 14TH JULY 1910.
  41. 41.THE SHEWING-UP OF BLANCO POSNET

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