{"id":2714,"date":"2019-11-05T07:37:10","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T07:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=2714"},"modified":"2019-11-05T07:37:10","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T07:37:10","slug":"the-censorship-of-british-theatre-1737-1843","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=2714","title":{"rendered":"The Censorship of British Theatre, 1737-1843"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>New web resource on theatre censorship:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/tobeomitted.tcd.ie\">https:\/\/tobeomitted.tcd.ie\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The website explores the topic of theatre censorship in Britain 1737-1843. It hosts 40 carefully selected play manuscripts submitted to the Examiner of Plays who had the primary responsibility of safeguarding the morals of theatre audiences after the passage of the Stage Licensing Act of 1737.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The manuscripts are drawn from the Larpent Collection (Huntington Library, Los Angeles) and the Lord Chamberlain\u2019s Plays (British Library, London) and have been carefully selected to show the variety of reasons a play might be deemed inappropriate through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Each manuscript is accompanied by an author bio, plot synopsis, reception history, and commentary on the censorship. The editorial apparatus amounts to 95,000 words in total.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/theatre.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2715\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/theatre-251x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/theatre-251x300.png 251w, https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/theatre-125x150.png 125w, https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/theatre.png 496w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New web resource on theatre censorship:\u00a0https:\/\/tobeomitted.tcd.ie\u00a0 The website explores the topic of theatre censorship in Britain 1737-1843. It hosts 40 carefully selected play manuscripts submitted to the Examiner of Plays&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=2714\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2716,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714\/revisions\/2716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}