Theatre Censorship and Georgian Cultural History

David O'Shaughnessy

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Theatre Censorship and Georgian Cultural History

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This introduction dicusses the imposition of the 1737 Stage Licensing Act and offers a historical account of its effects. It shows how the legislation was poorly conceived and understood leading to a widespread haziness about its precise powers and a large amount of authority being invested in teh office of the Examiner of Plays. It suggests three possible avenues for future work: the chronology of emendation, contextualizing censorship across the repertory, and understanding theatre archives as a resource for social history.

Original language	English (Ireland)
Title of host publication	The Censorship of Eighteenth-Century Theatre: Playhouses and Prohibition, 17371843
Place of Publication	Cambridge
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Pages	1-30
Number of pages	30
ISBN (Electronic)	9.78111E+12
ISBN (Print)	9.78111E+12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/9
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2023

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