In a rough frontier town of the American West, the drunken, blasphemous Blanco Posnet stands trial for stealing a horse, a crime that could hang him. Shaw called it a religious tract in dramatic form, and its banning by the Lord Chamberlain prompted the long preface here, a scathing account of the parliamentary inquiry into stage censorship.
A short melodrama and a classic polemic for free expression, both pure Shaw. Download the free EPUB.