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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| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2025 |
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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