Bernard Shaw and the Censors Fights and Failures, Stage and Screen
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Bernard Shaw and the Censors Fights and Failures, Stage and Screen
Bernard F. Dukore
Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries Series Editors Nelson O’Ceallaigh Ritschel Massachusetts Maritime Academy Pocasset, MA, USA Peter Gahan Independent Scholar Los Angeles, CA, USA
The series Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries presents the best and most up-to-date research on Shaw and his contemporaries in a diverse range of cultural contexts. Volumes in the series will further the academic understanding of Bernard Shaw and those who worked with him, or in reaction against him, during his long career from the 1880s to 1950 as a leading writer in Britain and Ireland, and with a wide European and American following. Shaw defined the modern literary theatre in the wake of Ibsen as a vehicle for social change, while authoring a dramatic canon to rival Shakespeare’s. His careers as critic, essayist, playwright, journalist, lecturer, socialist, feminist, and pamphleteer, both helped to shape the modern world as well as pointed the way towards modernism. No one engaged with his contemporaries more than Shaw, whether as controversialist, or in his support of other, often younger writers. In many respects, therefore, the series as it develops will offer a survey of the rise of the modern at the beginning of the twentieth century and the subsequent varied cultural movements covered by the term modernism that arose in the wake of World War 1. More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14785
Bernard F. Dukore
Bernard Shaw and the Censors Fights and Failures, Stage and Screen
Bernard F. Dukore Blacksburg, VA, USA
About the cover: The cartoon on the front cover shows the Bishop of London, who presented an extravaganza, The English Church Pageant, at the Fulham Palace, where in June 1909 it received ten performances with 4,200 men, women, children and horses; they played to 178,000 people, including those who attended dress rehearsals. Beside him, Shaw holds his manuscript of The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet, which had been refused a license the previous month. The punch line, below the drawing, is Shaw’s complaint, “Some people have all the luck. I can’t get my religious play past the censor.” The artist, Bernard Partridge, had played Sergius in the first production of Arms and the Man in 1894, under his stage name, Bernard Gould. Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries ISBN 978-3-030-52185-1 ISBN 978-3-030-52186-8 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52186-8 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of g
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