Author: Bernard Shaw
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Censorship
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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Author: John Russell Stephens
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521136556
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Originally published in 1980, this was the first study to make use of the Lord Chamberlain's files on English stage censorship. Dramatic censorship is shown to be a significant index of the Victorian age and the book fills an important gap in the knowledge and understanding not only of Victorian theatre, but of Victorian manners and attitudes.

Author: Dominic Shellard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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The authors contextualize this material within the political and moral issues of the time, and reveal the fascinating processes and debates that occurred in and around the Lord Chamberlain's Office." "Among the playwrights whose work provokes fierce arguments and reactions are Pirandello, Strindberg, Coward, Shaw, Osborne, Beckett, Tennessee Williams, Pinter and Bond. Featured plays include Mrs Warren's Profession, Miss Julie, The Lesson, Waiting for Godot, Look Back in Anger, The Birthday Party, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Patriot for Me and Saved."--Jacket.

Author: David Thomas
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199260281
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 297

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Using previously unpublished material from the National Archives, this book provides a thoroughgoing account of the introduction and abolition of theatre censorship in England, from Sir Robert Walpole's Licensing Act of 1737 to the successful campaign to abolish theatre censorship in 1968. It concludes with an exploration of possible new forms of covert censorship.

Author: Nicholas De Jongh
Publisher: Methuen Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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From 1737 until 1968 any play scheduled for performance in England was subject to censorship by the Lord Chamberlain's office.

Author: Steve Nicholson
Publisher: Exeter Performance Studies
ISBN: 9781905816439
Category : Censorship
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Winner of the Society for Theatre Research Book Prize - 2016 This is the final volume in a new paperback edition of Steve Nicholson's definitive four-volume survey of British theatre censorship from 1900-1968, based on previously undocumented material, covering the period 1960-1968. This brings to its conclusion the first comprehensive research on the Lord Chamberlain's Correspondence Archives for the 20th century. The 1960s was a significant decade in social and political spheres in Britain, especially in the theatre. As certainties shifted and social divisions widened, a new generation of theatre makers arrived, ready to sweep away yesterday's conventions and challenge the establishment. Analysis exposes the political and cultural implications of a powerful elite exerting pressure in an attempt to preserve the veneer of a polite, unquestioning society. This new edition includes a contextualising timeline for those readers who are unfamiliar with the period, and a new preface. DOI: https://doi.org/10.47788/TGOJ9339

Author: Dawn B. Sova
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438129939
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 417

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An alphabetical listing of plays that have been banned throughout history with a short synopsis and reason for banning as well as profiles of the playwrights and other resource material.

Author: Philip Massinger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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Author: Bernard Shaw
Publisher:
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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Author: Jan-Melissa Schramm
Publisher:
ISBN: 0198826060
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279

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Throughout the nineteenth century, the performance of sacred drama on the English public stage was prohibited by law and custom left over from the Reformation: successive Examiners of Plays, under the control of the Lord Chamberlain's Office, censored and suppressed both devotional and blasphemous plays alike. Whilst the Biblical sublime found expression in the visual arts, the epic, and the oratorio, nineteenth-century spoken drama remained secular by force of precedent and law. The maintenance of this ban was underpinned by Protestant anxieties about bodily performance, impersonation, and the power of the image that persisted long after the Reformation, and that were in fact bolstered by the return of Catholicism to public prominence after the passage of the Catholic Relief Act in 1829 and the restoration of the Catholic Archbishoprics in 1850. But even as anti-Catholic prejudice at mid-century reached new heights, the turn towards medievalism in the visual arts, antiquarianism in literary history, and the 'popular' in constitutional reform placed England's pre- Reformation past at the centre of debates about the uses of the public stage and the functions of a truly national drama. This book explores the recovery of the texts of the extant mystery-play cycles undertaken by antiquarians in the early nineteenth century and the eventual return of sacred drama to English public theatres at the start of the twentieth century. Consequently, law, literature, politics, and theatre history are brought into conversation with one another in order to illuminate the history of sacred drama and Protestant ant-theatricalism in England in the long nineteenth-century.