[PDF] Theatre Censorship In Britain eBook

Author : Steve Nicholson
Publisher : Exeter Performance Studies
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,90 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Censorship
ISBN : 9781905816439

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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 : David Thomas
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 19,57 MB
Release : 2007-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0199260281

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Using previously unpublished material from the National Archives, this book provides a thoroughgoing account of the introduction and abolition of theatre censorship in England, from Sir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 : H. Freshwater
Publisher : Springer
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 16,68 MB
Release : 2009-04-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0230237010

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This exploration of the wide variety of censorship that has shaped theatrical performance in twentieth and twenty-first century Britain examines the unpredictable outcomes of censorship, deep-seated anxieties about the performative influence of the stage, and the complex questions raised by acts of theatrical censorship.

Author : Dominic Shellard
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 11,59 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Drama
ISBN :

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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 : Catherine O'Leary
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,23 MB
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781138887039

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Theatre has always been subject to a wide range of social, political, moral, and doctrinal controls, with authorities and social groups imposing constraints on scripts, venues, staging, acting, and reception. Focusing on a range of countries and political regimes, this book examines the many forms that theatre censorship has taken in the 20th century and continues to take in the 21st, arguing that it remains a live issue in the contemporary world. The book re-examines assumptions about prohibition and state control, and offers a more complex reading of theatre censorship as a continuum ranging from the unconscious self-censorship built into social structures and discursive practices, through bureaucratic regulation or unofficial influence, up to detention and physical violence. An international team of contributors offers an illuminating set of case studies informed by both new archival research and the first-hand experience of playwrights and directors, covering theatre censorship in areas such as Spain, Portugal, Brazil, Poland, East Germany, Nepal, Zimbabwe, the USA, Ireland, and Britain. Focusing on right-wing dictatorships, post-colonial regimes, communist systems and Western democracies, the essays analyze methods and discourses of censorship, identify the multiple agents involved, examine the responses of theatremakers, and show how each example reveals important features of its political and cultural contexts. Expanding understanding of the nature and effects of censorship, this volume affirms the power of theatre to challenge authorized discourses and makes a timely contribution to debates about freedom of expression through performance.

Author : Steve Nicholson
Publisher :
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 14,75 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Drama
ISBN :

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This work explores the portrayal of a range of topics in relation to censorship, including the First World War, race, contemporary and historical international conflicts, sexual freedom and morality, class, the monarchy and religion.

Author : David O'Shaughnessy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 22,61 MB
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1108496253

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A far-reaching analysis of censorship's profound impact on Georgian theatrical culture and its development across the long eighteenth century, showcasing how the analysis of plays can be helpful for historical research.

Author : David O'Shaughnessy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 41,85 MB
Release : 2023-08-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1108853579

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This collection reveals the wide-ranging impact of the Stage Licensing Act of 1737 on literary and theatrical culture in Georgian Britain. Demonstrating the differing motivations of the state in censoring public performances of plays after the Stage Licensing Act of 1737 and until the Theatres Act 1843, chapters cover a wide variety of theatrical genres across a century and show how the mechanisms of formal censorship operated under the Lord Chamberlain's Examiner of Plays. They also explore the effects of informal censorship, whereby playwrights, audiences and managers internalized the censorship regime. As such, the volume moves beyond a narrow focus on erasures and emendations visible on manuscripts to elucidate censorship's wide-ranging significance across the long eighteenth century. Demonstrating theatre archives' potency as a resource for historical research, this volume is of exceptional value for researchers interested in the evolving complexities of Georgian society, its politics and mores.

Author : Steve Nicholson
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,77 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Censorship
ISBN : 9780859896979

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This is the second part of Steve Nicholson's three-volume analysis of British theatre censorship from 1900 until 1968. It covers the period from 1933 to 1952, and focuses on theatre censorship during the period before the outbreak of World War II, during the war itself and in the immediate post-war period.