Overview
This is the third volume in a new paperback edition of Steve Nicholson’s comprehensive four-volume analysis of British theatre censorship from 1900-1968, based on previously undocumented material in the Lord Chamberlain's Correspondence Archives in the British Library and the Royal Archives at Windsor. Focusing on plays we know, plays we have forgotten, and plays which were silenced for ever, Censorship of British Drama demonstrates the extent to which censorship shaped the theatre voices of this decade. The book charts the early struggles with Royal Court writers such as John Osborne and with Joan Littlewood and Theatre Workshop; the stand-offs with Samuel Beckett and with leading American dramatists; the Lord Chamberlain’s determination to keep homosexuality off the stage, which turned him into a laughing stock when he was unable to prevent a private theatre club in London's West End from staging a series of American plays he had banned, including Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge and Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; and the Lord Chamberlain’s attempts to persuade the government to give him new powers and to rewrite the law. 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/SEEA6021
Full Product Details
Author: Steve Nicholson
Publisher: University of Exeter
Imprint: University of Exeter
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.635kg
ISBN: 9780859897501
ISBN 10: 0859897508
Pages: 282
Publication Date: 13 October 2011
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
The third volume of Steve Nicholson's The Censorship of British Drama 1900-1968 (Exeter University Press) was the book I most eagerly awaited in 2011 . . . based like its predecessors on heroic research in the archives of the Lord Chamberlain's Department. . . . Nicholson is a scholar who writes with lucidity, wit, humane intelligence and grace of mind. There is no jargon in his pages, but much glorious hilarity. Nicholson's series ought to be mandatory reading for historians and biographers interesting in twentieth-century England. . . . The quotations in this book are a gold mine for other writers. --Richard Davenport-Hines 'Books of the Year, ' Times Literary Supplement
The third volume of Steve Nicholson's The Censorship of British Drama 1900-1968 (Exeter University Press) was the book I most eagerly awaited in 2011 . . . based like its predecessors on heroic research in the archives of the Lord Chamberlain's Department. . . . Nicholson is a scholar who writes with lucidity, wit, humane intelligence and grace of mind. There is no jargon in his pages, but much glorious hilarity. Nicholson's series ought to be mandatory reading for historians and biographers interesting in twentieth-century England. . . . The quotations in this book are a gold mine for other writers. <br><br>--Richard Davenport-Hines 'Books of the Year, ' Times Literary Supplement
Author Information
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.
