This volume is the third part of Steve Nicholson's four-volume analysis of British theater censorship from 1900 until 1968, based on previously undocumented materials from the Lord Chamberlain's Correspondence Archives at the British Library and the Royal Archives at Windsor. Charting a range of relevant topics from the period--including the standoffs with Samuel Beckett and with leading American dramatists; the Lord Chamberlain's determination to keep homosexuality off the stage and to rewrite censorship laws, which resulted in the prohibition of performances of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof...

This volume is the fourth and final part of Steve Nicholson's analysis of British theater censorship based on previously undocumented material in the Lord Chamberlain's Correspondence Archives in the British Library and the Royal Archives at Windsor. The 1960s was a significant decade for the British, both in social and political spheres, especially in theaters. As certainties shifted and social divisions widened, a new generation of theater makers arrived, ready to sweep away yesterday's conventions and challenge the establishment. Focusing on plays we know, plays we have forgotten, and...

Essential for students of theatre studies, this series of 6 decadal volumes provides a critical survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1950s to the present. Each volume features a critical analysis of the work of four key playwrights from that decade together with an extensive commentary on the period.
The 60s volume provides a detailed study of the work of four of the major playwrights who came to prominence: Edward Bond, John Arden, Harold Pinter and Alan Ayckbourn.
As with other volumes in the series, it offers an analysis of...

Essential for students of theatre studies, Methuen Drama's Decades of Modern British Playwriting series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1950s to 2009 in six volumes. Each volume features a critical analysis and reevaluation of the work of four key playwrights from that decade authored by a team of experts, together with an extensive commentary on the period .

The 1960s was a decade of seismic changes in British theatre as in society at large. This important new study in Methuen Drama's Decades of Modern British...