The Frightful Stage: Political Censorship of the Theater in Nineteenth-Century Europe

by Robert Justin Goldstein

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0857451715
• ISBN13: 9780857451712
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"