TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bachleitner,Norbert
AU  - Davis,John A.
AU  - Gies,David T.
AU  - Goldstein,Robert Justin
AU  - Stark,Gary D.
AU  - Swift,Anthony
TI  - The Frightful Stage: Political Censorship of the Theater in Nineteenth-Century Europe 
SN  - 9781845454593
U1  - 792.09409034 
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Censorship
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Theater and state
KW  - Theater
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - History: 18th/19th Century, Performance Studies, Cultural Studies (General), Literary Studies
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction --; Germany --; France --; Russia --; Spain --; Italy --; The Habsburg Monarchy --; Summary --; List of Contributors --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781845458997
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781845458997
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781845458997/original
ER  -