The Censorship of British Drama 1900-1968 Volume 1
1900-1932
$107.49
- Paperback
394 pages
- Release Date
21 September 2020
Summary
This is the first volume in a new paperback edition of Steve Nicholson’s well-reviewed four-volume analysis of British theatre censorship from 1900-1968, based on previously undocumented material in the Lord Chamberlain’s Correspondence archives. It charts the period before 1932, when theatre was seen as a crucial medium with the power to shape society, determining what people believed and how they behaved. It uncovers the differing views and the disputes which occurred among and between t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781905816408 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1905816405 |
| Author: | Steve Nicholson |
| Publisher: | University of Exeter Press |
| Imprint: | University of Exeter Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 394 |
| Release Date: | 21 September 2020 |
| Weight: | 614g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm |
| Series: | Exeter Performance Studies |
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Nicholson is very readable. He tells a good story, both chronologically and in the many accounts of particular wrangles, campaigns, negotiations, subtleties, paradoxes and outrages… . He uses correspondence to give palpable life to human agencies within institutional structures.
* Theatre Research International *. . should be welcomed as a long overdue account of the role and function of British theatre censorship during the twentieth century.
* Modern Drama *About The Author
Steve Nicholson
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.
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