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Matthew J. KinservikPublication Details
BookBucknell University Press2002Availability
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- English drama — 18th century — History and criticism
- Theater — Censorship — England — London — History — 18th century
- Drama — Censorship — England — London — History — 18th century
- Censorship — England — History — 18th century
- English drama (Comedy) — History and criticism
- Satire, English — History and criticism
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- "This book examines the effects of the Stage Licensing Act of 1737 on its main target, satiric comedy. The Licensing Act is generally considered to have been a significant and repressive censorship law (it was not repealed until 1968), but very little is known about how it actually worked and what effects it had on satiric comedy. Focusing on the playwriting careers of Henry Fielding, Samuel Foote, and Charles Macklin, the three most controversial and heavily censored satiric dramatists of the century, Disciplining Satire pays particular attention to what type of satiric expression the law encouraged, not just to what it prohibited."–BOOK JACKET
Contents
- 1. A Regulated and Regulating Stage: Satiric Comedy and Censorship in the Early Eighteenth Century. The Pejorative Definition of "Satire" Poetic Justice and the "Observation of a strict Stage-Discipline" Sympathetic Satire. The Royal Court Versus the Law Courts
- 2. Fielding and the Politics of Satire, 1728-1737. The Politicization of Satire and Censorship: 1728. Fielding’s Satiric Drama, 1730-1735. The Great Mogul’s Company at the Little Haymarket, 1736-1737
- 3. The Establishment of the Licensing Act and Its Effects on Satiric Drama, 1737-1747. The Prohibitive Effects of the Licensing Act. The Productive Effects of the Licensing Act. The Suspicious Husband and New Directions in Satiric Comedy
- 4. Performing Aristophanes: Foote and the Resurgence of Personal Satire, 1747-1776. Foote’s Mimicry. Censorship, Mimicry, and Foote’s Satiric Practice, 1751-1765. Royal Patentee, 1766-1777. Foote and the "Problem" of Sympathy - - 5. Macklin and the New Satire, 1746-1781. Macklin’s Early Approaches to Satire, 1746-1761. The Censorship of The Man of the World. The Spoild Child. The New Satire at the end of the Eighteenth Century
- App. The Spoild Child
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- 0838755127
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