Awards

• Winner of Society for Theatre Reseach Book Prize 2016
• Winner of Society for Theatre Research Book Prize 2016

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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

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This is a major work of scholarship. Nicholson handles and masters huge quantities of material with a sure hand. The result will not be surpassed for many years, if ever. (Philip Roberts, Emeritus Professor of Drama & Theatre Studies, University of Leeds) Nicholson is very readable. He tells a good story, both chronologically and in the many accounts of particular wrangles, campaigns, negotiations, paradoxes and outrages.... he uses correspondence to give palpable life to human agencies within institutional structures.... this is also both a work of reference - it efficiently points us to particular records - and a fine work of synthesis and summary - Nicholson has done the legwork for a community of scholars. (Theatre Research International) Everyone studying twentieth-century British theatre should have access to these volumes, and Nicholson should be given an award for sifting so painstakingly through the thousands of archive files which document the archaic process of censorship which held such power over what the public were permitted to see in the theatre until 1968. (New Theatre Quarterly)

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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.

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