Lord Chamberlain Regrets: A History of British Theatre Censorship

by Dominic Shellard, Miriam Handley, Steve Nicholson

Between 1824 and 1968, British theatre was controlled by censorship. Under the dictate of the Lord Chamberlain's Office, all new plays were read for unfavourable or corrupting content with the intention of protecting the "vulnerable" audiences of the time. Such material was either instructed to be cut or the play to be banned. The effect that censorship may have had on the plays that came out of this period, not to mention the ones that never even...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0712348654
• ISBN13: 9780712348652
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: British Library
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 1.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.6" x 7.1"