UID:
almafu_9959244691702883
Format:
1 online resource (ix, 332 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-511-09518-X
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1-107-13533-8
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1-280-16293-7
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0-511-12097-4
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0-511-06131-5
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0-511-20326-8
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0-511-30634-2
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0-511-48611-1
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0-511-06977-4
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in American theatre and drama ; 16
Content:
John Houchin explores the impact of censorship in twentieth-century American theatre, arguing that theatrical censorship coincided with significant challenges to religious, political and cultural systems. The study provides a summary of theatre censorship in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and analyses key episodes from 1900 to 2000. These include attempts to censure Olga Nethersole for her production of Sappho in 1901 and the theatre riots of 1913 that greeted the Abbey Theatre's production of Playboy of the Western World. Houchin explores the efforts to suppress plays in the 1920s that dealt with transgressive sexual material and investigates Congress' politically motivated assaults on plays and actors during the 1930s and 1940s. He investigates the impact of racial violence, political assassinations and the Vietnam War on the trajectory of theatre in the 1960s and concludes by examining the response to gay activist plays such as Angels in America.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Introduction -- Overture: theatrical censorship from the Puritans to Anthony Comstock -- Bad girls, tough guys, and the changing of the guard -- Flappers and fanatics -- Have you now or have you ever ... -- Bye, bye American pie -- The past is prologue.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-10835-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-81819-2
Language:
English
URL:
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511486111
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