Description
Book SynopsisNew paperback, with contextualising timeline and biographies, published in association with the Society for Theatre ResearchThis first volume in Steve Nicholson's important four-part analysis of British theatre censorship from 1900 to 1968 is based on previously undocumented material in the Lord Chamberlain's Correspondence Archives.
Trade ReviewNicholson 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 *
Table of Contents
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
