This is the first part of an analysis of British theatre censorship from 1900 until 1968, based on previously undocumented material in the Lord Chamberlain's Correspondence archives. It covers the period before 1932 when theatre was seen as a crucial medium with the power to shape society.[...]

Part of the Decades of Modern British Playwriting series, the volume provides a critical survey of the theatre produced in the 1960s together with detailed studies by a team of experts of the work of Edward Bond, John Arden, Harold Pinter and Alan Ayckbourn.[...]