English stage censorship goes back to Tudor times, but only in the
eighteenth century were the powers of the censor seriously
organised. Further legislation in 1843 required theatre managers
throughout Great Brtiain to present each script for the Lord
Chamberlain's scrutiny before a licence for public performance was
granted. Originally published in 1980, this was the first study to
make extensive use of the riches of the Lord Chamberlain's files in
the Public Record Office, which begins in 1824, and of the
manuscript plays in the British Museum. Dramatic censorship is
shown to be a significant index of the Victorian age; but it was
also an act of individuals. The author describes the censors as
personalities and charts their success or failure in contriving to
steer contemporary drama on a course determined, on the one hand,
by the insistent demands of the public and, on the other, by their
own liberal or illiberal prejudices. This book filled an important
gap in the knowledge and understanding not only of Victorian
theatre, but of contemporary manners and attitudes.
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