Theatre Censorship From Walpole to Wilson

Name: Theatre Censorship From Walpole to Wilson
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ISBN: 9780199260287

ISBN-10: 0199260281

ISBN-13: 9780199260287

Edition: 2007

Authors: David Thomas, David Carlton, Anne Etienne

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Using previously unpublished material from the National Archives, David Thomas, David Carlton, and Anne Etienne provide a new perspective on British cultural history. Statutory censorship was first introduced in Britain by Sir Robert Walpole with his Licensing Act of 1737. Previously theatre censorship was exercised under the Royal Prerogative. By giving the Lord Chamberlain statutory powers of theatre censorship, Walpole ensured that confusion over the relationship between theRoyal Prerogative and statute law would prevent any serious challenge to theatre censorship in Parliament until the twentieth century.The authors place theatre censorship legislation and its attempted reform in their…

Book details

List price: $125.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/7/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Timeline of Statutory Theatre Censorship


Introduction



Theatre Censorship under the Royal Prerogative



Statutory Theatre Censorship, 1737-1892



The 1909 Challenge to Statutory Theatre Censorship



The Inter-War Years



The 1949 Bid to end Statutory Theatre Censorship



Further Attempts to end Statutory Theatre Censorship



The 1960s and the 1968 Theatres Act



The Aftermath: British Theatre following the Abolition of Statutory Censorship


Conclusion


Select Bibliography


Index