Politics, Prudery and Perversions: The Censoring of the English Stage 1901-1968

by NicholasDeJongh (Author)

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  Paperback
  2001

  $4.45

  From 1737, any play scheduled for performance in England was subject to censorship by the Lord Chamberlain's office. After questions in the house, the practice was finally abolished in 1968. This book offers history of English stage censorship, and provides a detailed picture not just of theatre, but of a society policing its own imagination.

• Used

  Hardcover
  2000

  $6.02

  All plays performed in England from 1737 to 1968 had to be approved by the Lord Chamberlain's office. Nicholas De Jongh gives a savage and often comic account of the state control between 1901 and 1968, that would censor anything that was too frank or outspoken.