The Censorship of Plays in the Office of the Lord Chamberlain: The Case for Abolition

Letchworth Arden Press 1908, 44 p. 22 cm. Staple bound pamphlet. Boards foxed, and stained, with notation and owner's stamp. End papers foxed. Although the outside looks rough, the inside is clean. Various reforms suggested in articles by Shaw, Murray, and others. Includes a brief history of stage censorship in England and a list of plays recently approved or censored. In a section on censorship in practice, Shaw notes that one of the worst features of the existing arrangement is the practice of the examiner of plays to take no cognizance of the author as such and his refusal to communicate directly with any author concerning the work which he has condemned in the secrecy of St. James's Palace. Shaw rejects the solution of employing a tribunal of eminent men of letters as censors.

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