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The Shrewing up of Blanco Posnet by G B Shaw 6th January 1940

A crude melodrama set in the American mid west about a man saved from hanging by a prostitute. Shaw claimed that “this little play is really a religious tract in dramatic form”, the plot being less important than the debate about morality and divinity that occurs between the characters. in 1909, the censor demanded changes to the text because the statements made by Blanco Posnet about God were thought to contravene the Blasphemy law.

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