The Censorship of British Drama 1900-1968 Volume 3
The Fifties
$104.97
- Paperback
294 pages
- Release Date
21 September 2020
Summary
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781905816422 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1905816421 |
| Author: | Steve Nicholson |
| Publisher: | University of Exeter Press |
| Imprint: | University of Exeter Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 294 |
| Release Date: | 21 September 2020 |
| Weight: | 466g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm |
| Series: | Exeter Performance Studies |
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Critics Review
… the book that I most eagerly awaited in 2011 …
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 interested in twentieth-century England. […] The quotations in this book are a gold mine for other writers.’
– Richard Davenport-Hines * The Times Literary Supplement *About The Author
Steve Nicholson
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.
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