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

by Jan-Melissa Schramm

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0198826060

ISBN13:9780198826064

Release Date:July 2019

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:288 Pages

Weight:1.35 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Political Science Politics & Social Sciences

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