Censorship of British Drama 1900-1968 Volume 4

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-85989-846-1
Verlag: University of Exeter Press

Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 801 g

Reihe: Exeter Performance Studies

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nicholson, Steve

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Ethische Themen & Debatten: Zensur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Timeline: The Political and Cultural Calender

Introduction: Galahad and Mordred

1. The Inflamed Appendix (1960-1961)

2. No Laughing Matter (1961-1962)

3. Pleasuring the Lord Chamberlain (1963)

4. Some S. I will not Eat (1964)

5. Blows for Freedom (1965)

6. Going Wild (1965-1966)

7. Getting Tough (1966)

8. An Affront to Constitutional Principles (1967)

9. Let the Sunshine In (1968)

10. Afterwords (1968-1971)

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Nicholson, Steve
Steve Nicholson is Emeritus Professor at the University of Sheffield. He is a series editor for Exeter Performance Studies and the author of British Theatre and the Red Peril: The Portrayal of Communism, 1917-1945, also published by UEP.

Steve Nicholson is Emeritus Professor of 20th-Century and Contemporary Theatre, and Director of Drama, in the School of English at the University of Sheffield. He is a series editor for Exeter Performance Studies and the author of British Theatre and the Red Peril: The Portrayal of Communism, 1917-1945, also published by UEP.