Theatre Censorship in Britain
eBook - PDF

Theatre Censorship in Britain

Silencing, Censure and Suppression

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Theatre Censorship in Britain

Silencing, Censure and Suppression

About this book

This exploration of the wide variety of censorship that has shaped theatrical performance in twentieth and twenty-first century Britain examines the unpredictable outcomes of censorship, deep-seated anxieties about the performative influence of the stage, and the complex questions raised by acts of theatrical censorship.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Figures
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Introduction
  6. 1 London’s Grand Guignol: Sex, Violence and the Negotiation of the Limit
  7. 2 The Representation of Reproduction: Marie Stopes and the Female Body
  8. 3 Suppressed Desire: Dramatic Inscriptions of Lesbianism
  9. 4 Soldiers: Playing with History
  10. 5 Mary Whitehouse, The Romans in Britain, and ‘The Rape of Our Senses’
  11. 6 Section 28: Contagion, Control and Protest
  12. 7 Capital Constraint: The Right to Choose?
  13. 8 Competing Fundamentalisms: Behzti, Freedom of Speech, Sacrilege and Silencing
  14. Conclusion
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index