# Elder Daniels — Short Plays character guide

> Elder Daniels in Short Plays by George Bernard Shaw.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Elder Daniels, Elder, Daniels, Elder Daniels The Sheriff, Elder Daniels Shocked, Elder Daniels Sheriff, Elder Daniels Morning, Elder Daniels Aye, Elder Daniels There

**First appearance:** 0020-the-showing-up-of-blanco-posnet

## Snapshot

A frontier religious elder in The Showing-Up of Blanco Posnet, dispensing stern morality to a town that would rather hang a horse thief than hear a sermon.

## Who they are

Elder Daniels represents the piety of the Western town that has caught Blanco Posnet, and his authority is the sort that speaks comfortably of judgment while the sheriff handles the rope. He is a man of God in a place where godliness and hanging sit easily together, and the tension between his professed mercy and the town's appetite for punishment is the play's quiet scandal. He matters because he embodies the respectable frontier morality against which Blanco's rough, unwilling decency will be measured.

## Links

- HTML: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_plays_se/characters/elder_daniels
- Book: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_plays_se
- All characters: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_plays_se/characters