Censorship of Eighteenth-Century Theatre (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: O'Shaughnessy, David

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This collection reveals the wide-ranging impact of the Stage Licensing Act of 1737 on literary and theatrical culture in Georgian Britain. Demonstrating the differing motivations of the state in censoring public performances of plays after the Stage Licensing Act of 1737 and until the Theatres Act 1843, chapters cover a wide variety of theatrical genres across a century and show how the mechanisms of formal censorship operated under the Lord Chamberlain's Examiner of Plays. They also explore the effects of informal censorship, whereby playwrights, audiences and managers internalized the censorship regime. As such, the volume moves beyond a narrow focus on erasures and emendations visible on manuscripts to elucidate censorship's wide-ranging significance across the long eighteenth century. Demonstrating theatre archives' potency as a resource for historical research, this volume is of exceptional value for researchers interested in the evolving complexities of Georgian society, its politics and mores.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108853576
• Artikelnr.: 68970223

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: theatre censorship and Georgian cultural history David
O'Shaughnessy; Part I. Gender: 1. Censorship as cultural production: the
1752 public entertainments act and Christopher Smart's Old Woman's Oratory
Kristina Straub; 2. Damned women, or the disclosures of censorship Daniel
O'Quinn; 3. Women writers and censorship in the early nineteenth century
Katherine Newey; Part II. Politics: 4. Theatrical censorship and empire
Bridget Orr; 5. Adapting Caleb Williams for the stage: the theatrical pale
of censorship in Colman's The Iron Chest Lisa A. Freeman; 6. Knave or not?
Censoring Thomas Holcroft Julie A. Carlson; Part III. Performance: 7. The
censorship of personal satire on the eighteenth-century stage Matthew J.
Kinservik; 8. Censoring the unseen: revolution and the aesthetics of
theatrical space David Francis Taylor; 9. Evading censorship through
comedy, improvisation and non-verbal performance in the early nineteenth
century Jim Davis; 10. Censoring regency flash: the melodrama of the
Weare-Thurtell murder case, 1823¿24 Gillian Russell.