The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet by Bernard Shaw
"The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet" by Bernard Shaw is a one-act play first produced in 1909. Set in the American West, this religious tract in crude melodrama follows Blanco Posnet, a drunk and reprobate accused of stealing the Sheriff's horse. As the trial unfolds, witnesses testify and secrets emerge about what really happened that night. Shaw's controversial statements about God sparked a censorship battle with British authorities, leading to the play's defiant
premiere in Dublin instead of London. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 |
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| Title | The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet |
| Alternate Title | The Showing-up of Blanco Posnet |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shewing-Up_of_Blanco_Posnet |
| Credits | Eve Sobol and Distributed Proofreaders |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 67.9 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Censorship |
| Subject | Horse stealing -- Drama |
| Subject | West (U.S.) -- Drama |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 5722 |
| Release Date | May 1, 2004 |
| Most Recently Updated | Oct 22, 2023 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 342 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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