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
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
Most Recently Updated Oct 22, 2023
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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