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Censorship and the Representation of the Sacred in Nineteenth-Century England (Hardcover)
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Censorship and the Representation of the Sacred in Nineteenth-Century England (Hardcover)
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Throughout the nineteenth century, the performance of sacred drama
on the English public stage was prohibited by law and custom left
over from the Reformation: successive Examiners of Plays, under the
control of the Lord Chamberlain's Office, censored and suppressed
both devotional and blasphemous plays alike. Whilst the Biblical
sublime found expression in the visual arts, the epic, and the
oratorio, nineteenth-century spoken drama remained secular by force
of precedent and law. The maintenance of this ban was underpinned
by Protestant anxieties about bodily performance, impersonation,
and the power of the image that persisted long after the
Reformation, and that were in fact bolstered by the return of
Catholicism to public prominence after the passage of the Catholic
Relief Act in 1829 and the restoration of the Catholic
Archbishoprics in 1850. But even as anti-Catholic prejudice at
mid-century reached new heights, the turn towards medievalism in
the visual arts, antiquarianism in literary history, and the
'popular' in constitutional reform placed England's pre-
Reformation past at the centre of debates about the uses of the
public stage and the functions of a truly national drama. This book
explores the recovery of the texts of the extant mystery-play
cycles undertaken by antiquarians in the early nineteenth century
and the eventual return of sacred drama to English public theatres
at the start of the twentieth century. Consequently, law,
literature, politics, and theatre history are brought into
conversation with one another in order to illuminate the history of
sacred drama and Protestant ant-theatricalism in England in the
long nineteenth-century.
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