| The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet | |
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| Written by | George Bernard Shaw |
| Date premiered | 10 April 1909 |
| Place premiered | Liverpool by Abbey Theatre (of Dublin) |
| Original language | English |
| Subject | A man is saved from hanging by a prostitute |
| Genre | "Crude Melodrama" |
| Setting | A pioneer town in the American West |
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The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet: A Sermon in Crude Melodrama is a one-act play by George Bernard Shaw, first produced in 1909.[1] Shaw describes the play as a religious tract in dramatic form.[2]
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 of statements made by the protagonist about God, which were thought to violate the blasphemy law in force at the time.
- ^ "The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet". Theatredatabase.com. Retrieved 21 May 2014.
- ^ Violet M. Broad & C. Lewis Broad Dictionary to the Plays and Novels of Bernard Shaw, A. & C. Black, London, 1929, p.81.