Theatre Censorship: From Walpole to Wilson

by David Thomas (Author), David Carlton (Author), Anne Etienne (Author), Anne Etienne (Author), David Carlton (Author), David Thomas (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2007

  $194.84

  Using previously unpublished material from the National Archives, this book provides a thoroughgoing account of the introduction and abolition of theatre censorship in England, from Sir Robert Walpole's Licensing Act of 1737 to the successful campaign to abolish theatre censorship in 1968. It concludes with an exploration of possible new forms of covert censorship.