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Informationen zum 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. Klappentext This book is the fourth volume in the expanded definitive survey! covering the period 1960-1968. Steve Nicholson's four-volume analysis of British theatre censorship from 1900 until 1968 is based on previously undocumented material in the Lord Chamberlain's Correspondence Archives in the British Library and the Royal Archives at Windsor. "This is a major work of scholarship. Nicholson handles and masters huge quantities of material with a sure hand. The result will not be surpassed for many years, if ever." (Philip Roberts, Emeritus Professor of Drama & Theatre Studies, University of Leeds) "Nicholson is very readable. He tells a good story, both chronologically and in the many accounts of particular wrangles, campaigns, negotiations, paradoxes and outrages.... he uses correspondence to give palpable life to human agencies within institutional structures.... this is also both a work of reference - it efficiently points us to particular records - and a fine work of synthesis and summary - Nicholson has done the legwork for a community of scholars." (Theatre Research International) "Everyone studying twentieth-century British theatre should have access to these volumes, and Nicholson should be given an award for sifting so painstakingly through the thousands of archive files which document the archaic process of censorship which held such power over what the public were permitted to see in the theatre until 1968." (New Theatre Quarterly)" Zusammenfassung Winner of the Society for Theatre Research Book Prize – 2016New paperback, with contextualising timeline and biographies, published in association with the Society for Theatre ResearchThis volume covers the 1960s, a significant decade in social and political spheres in Britain, especially in the theatre. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Timeline: The Political and Cultural Calender Introduction: Playing Mordred 1. The Inflamed Appendix (1960-1961) 2. No Laughing Matter (1961-1962) 3. Pleasuring the Lord Chamberlain (1963) 4. Some S. I will not Eat (1964) 5. A Blow for Freedom (1965) 6. Going Wild (1965-1966) 7. Getting Tough (1966) 8. An Affront to Constitutional Principles (1967) 9. Let the Sunshine In (1968) 10. Afterwords (1968-1971) Notes Select Bibliography Index ...
