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Cambridge University Press
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September 2009
Print publication year:
2003
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9780511486111

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John Houchin explores the impact of censorship in twentieth-century American theatre, arguing that theatrical censorship coincided with significant challenges to religious, political and cultural systems. The study provides a summary of theatre censorship in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and analyses key episodes from 1900 to 2000. These include attempts to censure Olga Nethersole for her production of Sappho in 1901 and the theatre riots of 1913 that greeted the Abbey Theatre's production of Playboy of the Western World. Houchin explores the efforts to suppress plays in the 1920s that dealt with transgressive sexual material and investigates Congress' politically motivated assaults on plays and actors during the 1930s and 1940s. He investigates the impact of racial violence, political assassinations and the Vietnam War on the trajectory of theatre in the 1960s and concludes by examining the response to gay activist plays such as Angels in America.

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'… scholars interested in controversial American theatrical productions in the twentieth century will find the book to be a very good starting point.'

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New York World, yrs: 1900, 1905, 1923–24, 1928
New York World-Telegram, yr: 1936
Pennsylvania Chronicle and Universal Advertiser, yr: 1767
Pennsylvania Gazette, yrs: 1754, 1759, 1766–67
Providence Journal (Rhode Island), yr: 1952
San Antonio Express News, yr: 1997
Springfield News-Leader (Missouri), yr: 1989
US News and World Report, yrs: 1964, 1968
Variety, yrs: 1921, 1926–28, 1996
Village Voice, yrs: 1963, 1966–67, 1998
Waco Times-Herald, yr: 1963
The Wall Street Journal, yr: 1969
Washington Post, yrs: 1939, 1989
Washington Post and Times Herald, yr: 1956
Washington Times, yrs: 1989–90
Wellesley Townsman, yr: 1968
Weyman's Gazette, yr: 1761
Women's Wear Daily, yr: 1969
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Harvard Theatre Collection, Pussey Library, Harvard University

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