The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet and Fanny's First Play

The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet and Fanny's First Play
Title The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet and Fanny's First Play PDF eBook
Author Dan Laurence
Publisher Penguin UK
Pages 216
Release 1994-05-26
Genre Drama
ISBN 0141963697

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‘A tearing, flaring, revivalist drama’ was how Desmond MacCarthy described The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet. Set in America’s Wild West and aptly subtitled ‘A Sermon in Crude Melodrama’, this single-act play concerns the conversion of a horse thief desperate to ‘keep the devil’ in him and die game. Published in 1909, it brought Shaw into conflict with the Lord Chamberlain of England, who banned it on the grounds of alleged blasphemy, and it was twelve years before the play was performed in a London theatre. In an interview Shaw commented, ‘I am sorry that Fanny’s First Play has destroyed the cherished legend that I am an unpopular playwright ... for the first time I have allowed a play of mine to run itself to death ... And the worst of it is it will not die.’ First performed in 1911, the play is a delightful farce in which Shaw debates some of his favourite subjects: middle-class morality, marriage, parents and children and women’s rights. And, deliberately concealing his authorship, Shaw took the opportunity to satirize contemporary drama critics who, he claimed, ‘do not know dramatic chalk from dramatic cheese when it is no longer labelled for them.’

Fanny's First Play

Fanny's First Play
Title Fanny's First Play PDF eBook
Author Bernard Shaw
Publisher
Pages 100
Release 1927
Genre English drama
ISBN

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Misalliance, The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, and Fanny's First Play

Misalliance, The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, and Fanny's First Play
Title Misalliance, The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, and Fanny's First Play PDF eBook
Author Bernard Shaw
Publisher
Pages 374
Release 1914
Genre English drama
ISBN

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Misalliance, The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, and Fanny's First Play. With a Treatise on Parents and Children

Misalliance, The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, and Fanny's First Play. With a Treatise on Parents and Children
Title Misalliance, The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, and Fanny's First Play. With a Treatise on Parents and Children PDF eBook
Author Bernard Shaw
Publisher
Pages 384
Release 1914
Genre
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A Study of the Modern Drama

A Study of the Modern Drama
Title A Study of the Modern Drama PDF eBook
Author Barrett Harper Clark
Publisher
Pages 602
Release 1928
Genre Drama
ISBN

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The Penguin Classics Book

The Penguin Classics Book
Title The Penguin Classics Book PDF eBook
Author Henry Eliot
Publisher Random House
Pages 1904
Release 2019-02-21
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0141990937

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**Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year** The Penguin Classics Book is a reader's companion to the largest library of classic literature in the world. Spanning 4,000 years from the legends of Ancient Mesopotamia to the poetry of the First World War, with Greek tragedies, Icelandic sagas, Japanese epics and much more in between, it encompasses 500 authors and 1,200 books, bringing these to life with lively descriptions, literary connections and beautiful cover designs.

Reader's Adviser and Bookman's Manual

Reader's Adviser and Bookman's Manual
Title Reader's Adviser and Bookman's Manual PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 462
Release 1921
Genre Best books
ISBN

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