The Censorship of British Drama 1900-1968 Volume 4 by Steve Nicholson

The Censorship of British Drama 1900-1968 Volume 4 by Steve Nicholson

Winner of the Society for Theatre Research Book Prize - 2016 New paperback, with contextualising timeline and biographies, published in association with the Society for Theatre Research This volume covers the 1960s, a significant decade in social and political spheres in Britain, especially in the theatre.

Nicholson’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

Steve Nicholson is Emeritus Professor of 20th-Century and Contemporary Theatre, and Director of Drama, in the School of English at the University of Sheffield. He is a 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.

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ISBN 13	9780859898461
ISBN 10	0859898466
Title	The Censorship of British Drama 1900-1968 Volume 4
Author	Steve Nicholson
Series	Exeter Performance Studies
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	University of Exeter Press
Year published	2015-07-29
Number of pages	366
Prizes	Winner of Society for Theatre Research Book Prize 2016
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