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George Bernard Shaw. The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet A Sermon in Crude Melodrama
The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet A Sermon in Crude Melodrama
Table of Contents
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 toward 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
Whe not an enlightened censhorship?
The weakness of the Lords 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 Two. The licensing of theatres
Prostitution and drink in theatres
Why the managers dread local control
Desirable limitation of local control
Summary
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
