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The Frightful Stage : Political Censorship of the Theater in Nineteenth-Century Europe / ed. by Robert Justin Goldstein.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (322 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781845454593
  • 9781845458997
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 792.09409034
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Germany -- France -- Russia -- Spain -- Italy -- The Habsburg Monarchy -- Summary -- List of Contributors -- Index
Summary: In nineteenth-century Europe the ruling elites viewed the theater as a form of communication which had enormous importance. The theater provided the most significant form of mass entertainment and was the only arena aside from the church in which regular mass gatherings were possible. Therefore, drama censorship occupied a great deal of the ruling class’s time and energy, with a particularly focus on proposed scripts that potentially threatened the existing political, legal, and social order. This volume provides the first comprehensive examination of nineteenth-century political theater censorship at a time, in the aftermath of the French Revolution, when the European population was becoming increasingly politically active.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Germany -- France -- Russia -- Spain -- Italy -- The Habsburg Monarchy -- Summary -- List of Contributors -- Index

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In nineteenth-century Europe the ruling elites viewed the theater as a form of communication which had enormous importance. The theater provided the most significant form of mass entertainment and was the only arena aside from the church in which regular mass gatherings were possible. Therefore, drama censorship occupied a great deal of the ruling class’s time and energy, with a particularly focus on proposed scripts that potentially threatened the existing political, legal, and social order. This volume provides the first comprehensive examination of nineteenth-century political theater censorship at a time, in the aftermath of the French Revolution, when the European population was becoming increasingly politically active.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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