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
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