The Palgrave Handbook of Theatre Censorship

This is an extraordinary and often eye-opening set of insightful, wide-ranging and oftentimes disturbing essays, each of which offers unique insights into theatre censorship practices and their impact within a specific political and moral culture. The collection repeatedly breaks fresh ground. ­– St...

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Other Authors: Etienne, Anne (Editor), Saunders, Graham (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2025, 2025
Edition:1st ed. 2025
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505 0 |a 15. Commedia dell’Arte: Born out of Censorship? -- 16. Censorship, Performance and Strange Places in Czechoslovakia (1948 – 1989) -- 17. Writing Under Pressure: Václav Havel, the Absurd, and the Politics of Censorship -- 18. Risky Business: Theatre Censorship in Postcolonial Indonesian Theatre -- 19. The ‘rocade’ in Rocado: navigating state censorship and La Francophonie in postcolonial Congolese theatre -- 20. In the Name of the Author: Samuel Beckett, Sarah Kane, and their Disputed Italian Productions -- 21. Dramaturgy of Constraint in Contemporary Iranian Theatre -- 22. The Detour Around Censorship: Private Theatres and Independent Performance Groups in Guangzhou, China -- 23. British Women Playwrights: Censorship and Self-censorship in the Romantic period -- 24. London’s Grand Guignol versus The Lord Chamberlain: The Rise and Fall of a Troublesome Theatre --  
505 0 |a 25. “A place where freedom of mind and spirit was possible”: Black Theatre Makers and Censorship in Britain, 1900-1948 -- 26.Conversion or Subversion: Homosexuality on the Portuguese Stage in Estado Novo Portugal -- 27.Theatre and Censorship Above and Within: Censorship and Self-Censorship in Israeli Theatre -- 28.Otherness and Censorship in the Theatre of Turkey (1960s-70s) -- 29.A Paradigm of Populism: the Return to Censorship in Bolsonaro’s Brazil -- 30.Censoring the Emperor: The Japanese Debut of The Mikado -- 31. “Censorship Made Me”: And Censorship Created Mae West -- 32.“Offending Australia’s Returned Servicemen? Alan Seymour’s The One Day of the Year and Censorship by Rejection -- 33. Moving Censorship: Memory and Reception in Allan McClelland’s Bloomsday in Dublin, 1962 -- 34. Soviet Censorship and Self-censorship: the Case of Gunars Priede --  
505 0 |a 35.Kallol and the Incarceration of Utpal Dutt: State Repression, Censorship and the Struggle for ‘National’ History -- 36.Delusions of Safeguarding: Homegrown and Islamic State on the UK stage -- 37.Who Cancelled Robert Lepage? The “Noise and Silence” of Cancel Culture 
505 0 |a 1.Theatre Censorship: an Unceasing (un)Official Menace? -- 2.Theatre Censorship in New Spain in the 17th-18th centuries -- 3.Theatre Censorship in Restoration London: The Case of Charles Killigrew, Master of the Revels -- 4.Theatre Censorship in the Age of Liberty? The Case of the French Revolution -- 5.Manoeuvering in Contested Space: Theatre-makers under Censorship in Early Nineteenth-Century Germany -- 6.Theatre Censorship in Denmark and Norway -- 7.The Catholic Church vs. the Quebec Theatre (1859-1914) -- 8. Cultural Conflict and Versions of Censorship in Post-Reformation Scottish Theatre -- 9. Theatre Censorship in Nazi Germany -- 10. Ideological Surveillance, Censorship and Retaliation -- 11. Old and New Censorship in Contemporary Spanish Theatre -- 12. Staging Reconciliations and Rainbowisms: The Paradox of Censorship in South Africa and Zimbabwe -- 13. Theatre Censorship in the Maghreb (1990-present) -- 14. Theatre and Censorship: the Russian Case --  
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520 |a This is an extraordinary and often eye-opening set of insightful, wide-ranging and oftentimes disturbing essays, each of which offers unique insights into theatre censorship practices and their impact within a specific political and moral culture. The collection repeatedly breaks fresh ground. ­– Steve Nicholson, Emeritus Professor, University of Sheffield, UK In its impressive and well-realised ambition, demonstrated by the well-focused intelligence and academic flair of its many contributors, this collection is both magisterial and vital. It is an essential contribution to censorship studies, fascinating and inspiring, a must-read for anyone interested in the subject. – Aleks Sierz.  
520 |a As such, the Handbook aims to initiate redefinitions of what we understand or experience as censorship. Anne Etienne is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Drama in the Department of English at University College Cork, Ireland. Graham Saunders is the Allardyce Nicoll Chair of Drama in the Department of Drama and Theatre Arts at the University of Birmingham, UK. They are series co-editors of Palgrave Studies in Cultural Censorship. 
520 |a Theatre critic and author At a time in the world where many governments are increasingly seeking to limit artistic expression, this book is a necessary reminder of the many freedoms that have been fought for in theatres around the globe, and how the power of being unsilenced must never be taken for granted. – Caridad Svich. Playwright and translator This book incorporates a wide theoretical, cultural, literary and historical engagement in exploring the tension between dramatic productions and the forms of censorship they encounter from creation to reception. The Palgrave Handbook of Theatre Censorship offers global new insights into censorship practices, examining attempts at repression motivated either by fears that audiences gathering together to watch live dramatic events will lead to sedition and mass uprisings, or by moral or religious squeamishness requiring the establishment of institutional systems of censorship to curb or suppress the stage.