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The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet

by George Bernard Shaw

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2A Readable Bluebook
  3. 3How Not to Do It
  4. 4The Story of the Joint Select Committee
  5. 5Why the Managers Love the Censorship
  6. 6A Two Guinea Insurance Policy
  7. 7Why the Government Interfered
  8. 8The Peers on the Joint Select Committee
  9. 9The Committee’s Attitude Toward the Theatre
  10. 10A Bad Beginning
  11. 11A Comic Interlude
  12. 12An Anti-Shavian Panic
  13. 13A Rare and Curious First Edition
  14. 14The Times to the Rescue
  15. 15The Council of Ten
  16. 16The Sentence
  17. 17The Execution
  18. 18The Rejected Statement — Part I — The Witness’s Qualifications
  19. 19The Definition of Immorality
  20. 20What Toleration Means
  21. 21The Case for Toleration
  22. 22The Limits to Toleration
  23. 23The Difference Between Law and Censorship
  24. 24Why the Lord Chamberlain?
  25. 25The Diplomatic Objection to the Lord Chamberlain
  26. 26The Objection of Court Etiquet
  27. 27Why Not an Enlightened Censorship?
  28. 28The Weakness of the Lord Chamberlain’s Department
  29. 29An Enlightened Censorship Still Worse Than the Lord Chamberlain’s
  30. 30The Practical Impossibilities of Censorship
  31. 31The Arbitration Proposal
  32. 32The Rejected Statement: Part Two
  33. 33Prostitution and Drink in Theatres
  34. 34Why the Managers Dread Local Control
  35. 35Desirable Limitations of Local Control
  36. 36Summary
  37. 37Preface Resumed
  38. 38Conclusion
  39. 39The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet

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