The Censorship of British Drama 1900-1968 Volume 4 : The Sixties (Exeter Performance Studies)

Nicholson, Steve

University of Exeter Press（2020/09発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 382 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781905816439
• DDC分類 792.094109046

Full Description

Winner of the Society for Theatre Research Book Prize - 2016

This is the final volume in a new paperback edition of Steve Nicholson's definitive four-volume survey of British theatre censorship from 1900-1968, based on previously undocumented material, covering the period 1960-1968. This brings to its conclusion the first comprehensive research on the Lord Chamberlain's Correspondence Archives for the 20th century. The 1960s was a significant decade in social and political spheres in Britain, especially in the theatre. As certainties shifted and social divisions widened, a new generation of theatre makers arrived, ready to sweep away yesterday's conventions and challenge the establishment. Analysis exposes the political and cultural implications of a powerful elite exerting pressure in an attempt to preserve the veneer of a polite, unquestioning society.

This new edition includes a contextualising timeline for those readers who are unfamiliar with the period, and a new preface.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.47788/TGOJ9339

Contents

Acknowledgements

Timeline: The Political and Cultural Calender

Introduction: Galahad and 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. Blows 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