CiNii 図書 - The censorship of British drama, 1900-1968

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 the Lord Chamberlain and his Readers and Advisers, and discusses the extensive pressures exerted on him by bodies such as the Public Morality Council, the Church, the monarch, government departments, foreign embassies, newspapers, powerful individuals and those claiming to represent national or international opinion. The book explores the portrayal of a broad range of topics in relation to censorship, including the First World War, race and inter-racial relationships, contemporary and historical international conflicts, horror, sexual freedom and morality, class, the monarchy, and religion. 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/LXOK1281

Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Because Lions Ain't Rabbits Section One: 1900-1918 1. From Ibsenity to Obscenity: Principles and Practice 1900-1909 2. People Who Eat Peas With Their Knife: The Government Enquiry of 1909 3. Cats, Canaries and Guinea Pigs: Principles and Practice 1909-1913 4. A Clique of Erotic Women: The First World War (Part One) 5. The Hidden Hand: The First World War (Part Two) Section Two: 1919-1932 6. The Dead Men: Principles and Practice 7. No Screams from Rabbit: Horror and Religion 8. Merchandisers in Muck: The Immoral Maze 9. Our Good Humoured Community: Domestic Politics 10. Foreign Bodies: International Politics Conclusion: A Gentler Process of Prevention Notes Select Bibliography Index

巻冊次: v. 2 ISBN 9780859896979

内容説明

This is the second 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 in the British Library and the Royal Archives at Windsor. It covers the period from 1933 to 1952, and focuses on theatre censorship during the period before the outbreak of the Second World War, during the war itself, and in the immediate post-war period. The focus is primarily on political and moral censorship. The book documents and analyses the control exercised by the Lord Chamberlain. It also reviews the pressures exerted on him and on the theatre by the government, the monarch, the Church, foreign embassies and by influential public figures and organisations. 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/SGLU9228

Acknowledgements Introduction: 'The Most Dispensable of All the Fetters' Section One: 1933-1939 1 'Verboten': The Nazis Onstage 2 'Prudes on the Prowl': The Moral Gaze 3 'The Author Will Probably Deny It...': Naming the Homosexual 4 'These Communist Effusions': Testing Tolerance in Politics and Religion Section Two: 1939-1945 5 'Everybody Bombs Babies Now': Politics in Wartime 6 'Lubricating the War Machine': The Nude in Wartime 7 'Beastly Practices': Sexual Taboos in Wartime Section Three: 1945-1952 8 'Two Ways To Get Rid Of The Censor' 9 'This Infernal Business of Sex' 10 'But Perverts Must Go Somewhere in the Evening' 11 'The Crazy but Satisfactory Ethics of the English' Afterword: 'Congenial Work' Notes on Archive Referencing and Authors' Names Notes Select Bibliography Index

巻冊次: v. 3 : hbk ISBN 9780859897501

内容説明

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.

Acknowledgements Introduction: 'That Happy State' 1. Censorship in a Golden Age 2. 'Packed with Nancies': Homosexuality and the Stage (I) 3. Breaking the Rules, Breaking the Lord Chamberlain: Unlicensed Plays in the West End 4. Speaking the Unspoken: Homosexuality and the Stage (II) 5. Not Always on Top: The Lord Chamberlain's Office and the New Wave 6. Dirty Business: Sex, Religion and International Politics 7. The Tearing Down of Everything: Class, Politics and Aunt Edna Afterword Biographies of the principal people working for the Lord Chamberlain's Office Notes Select Bibliography Index

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