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.... Fanny?s First Play, being but a potboiler, needs no preface. But its lesson is not, I am sorry to say, unneeded. Mere morality, or the substitution of custom for conscience was once accounted a shameful and cynical thing: people talked of right and wrong, of honor and dishonor, of sin and grace, of salvation and damnation, not of morality and immorality. The word moralit...

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...es Publication Fanny’s First Play by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... of custom for conscience was once accounted a shameful and cynical thing: people talked of right and wrong, of honor and dishonor, of sin and grace, ... ...abor, than drift along from their cradles to their graves doing what other people do for no other reason than that other people do it, and knowing not... ...n man in any sense of the word. I’m not really an Englishman: my family is Irish: Ive lived all my life in Italy—in Venice mostly—my very title is a f... ...aps really matter. Flawner Bannal’s your man. Bannal really represents the British play- goer. When he likes a thing, you may take your oath there are... ...I shall never get back to the old way of talking again. Ive made a sort of descent into hell— MRS KNOX. Margaret! Such a word! MARGARET . Y ou should ... ...le with people who dont know any other words. But when I said that about a descent into hell I was not swearing. I was in earnest, like a preacher. MR...