Prof. Steve Nicholson

The Censorship of British Drama 1900-1968 Volume 3

The Fifties

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This volume is the third part of Steve Nicholson's four-volume analysis of British theater censorship from 1900 until 1968, based on previously undocumented materials from the Lord Chamberlain's Correspondence Archives at the British Library and the Royal Archives at Windsor. Charting a range of relevant topics from the period--including the standoffs with Samuel Beckett and with leading American dramatists; the Lord Chamberlain's determination to keep homosexuality off the stage and to rewrite censorship laws, which resulted in the prohibition of performances of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and A View from the Bridge, among other plays; and the ear… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-85989-750-1
EAN: 9780859897501
Produktnummer: 4863014
Verlag: University of Exeter Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 282 S.
Masse: H24.0 cm x B16.3 cm x D2.3 cm 644 g
Gewicht: 644
Sonstiges: Undergraduate

Über den Autor

Steve Nicholson is Professor of 20th-Century and Contemporary Theatre, and Director of Drama, in the School of English at the University of Sheffield. He is the series editor for Exeter Performance Studies and the author of British Theatre and the Red Peril: The Portrayal of Communism, 1917-1945, also published by UEP.