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Hardcover Censorship and the Representation of the Sacred in Nineteenth-Century England Book

ISBN: 0198826060

ISBN13: 9780198826064

Censorship and the Representation of the Sacred in Nineteenth-Century England

Throughout the nineteenth century, the performance of sacred drama on the English public stage was prohibited by law and custom left over from the Reformation: successive Examiners of Plays, under the control of the Lord Chamberlain's Office, censored and suppressed both devotional and blasphemous plays alike. Whilst the Biblical sublime found expression in the visual arts, the epic, and the oratorio, nineteenth-century spoken drama remained secular...

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