TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: The edition from which this work was taken
was printed without contractions, so there is Ill for I'll and
dont for don't, for example, and show is spelt shew.




THE SHEWING-UP OF BLANCO POSNET

BERNARD SHAW

1909



PREFACE

THE CENSORSHIP

This little play is really a religious tract in dramatic
form. If our silly censorship would permit its performance,
it might possibly help to set right-side-up the perverted
conscience and re-invigorate the starved self-respect of our
considerable class of loose-lived playgoers whose point of honor
is to deride all official and conventional sermons. As it is, it
only gives me an opportunity of telling the story of the Select
Committee of both Houses of Parliament which sat last year to
enquire into the working of the censorship, against which it was
alleged by myself and others that as its imbecility and
mischievousness could not be fully illustrated within the limits