Description
Book SynopsisWinner of the Society for Theatre Research Book Prize - 2016New paperback, with contextualising timeline and biographies, published in association with the Society for Theatre ResearchThis volume covers the 1960s, a significant decade in social and political spheres in Britain, especially in the theatre.
Trade ReviewNicholson’s skillful deployment of meticulous archival research is combined with an effective sense of the overall picture of theatre and performance in the 1960s and concludes with a persuasive caution against complacency about the situation after the end of pre-censorship.
-- Russell Jackson * Theatre Notebook *
. . . .we will lament the abolition of censorship insofar as it has robbed us of another volume.
-- Anne Etienne, University College Cork * Studies in Theatre and Performance *
'It’s a brilliant manuscript, forensic and fascinating, rich with detail and countless examples of the hilarious and bewildering attitudes of the later censorship, but with also Nicholson’s characteristic fair-mindedness which treats the Lord Chamberlain and his comptrollers with respect for the difficult job they had to do and the nuanced way in which they did it. It’s a great conclusion to a vital series.'
-- Dan Rebellato, Royal Holloway University of London
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Timeline: The Political and Cultural Calender
Introduction: Galahad and Mordred
1. The Inflamed Appendix (1960-1961)
2. No Laughing Matter (1961-1962)
3. Pleasuring the Lord Chamberlain (1963)
4. Some S. I will not Eat (1964)
5. Blows for Freedom (1965)
6. Going Wild (1965-1966)
7. Getting Tough (1966)
8. An Affront to Constitutional Principles (1967)
9. Let the Sunshine In (1968)
10. Afterwords (1968-1971)
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
