Disciplining Satire: The Censorship of Satiric Comedy on the Eighteenth-century London StageBucknell University Press, 2002 - 301 pages This book explains the effects of the Stage Licensing Act of 1737 on its target, satiric comedy. Contextualising the Licensing Act in terms of the Collier Controversy (1698-1728), this book shows that the Walpole ministry avocated a return to the sympathetic satire that developed during that earlier theatrical crisis. |
Contents
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Acknowledgments | 15 |
A Regulated and Regulating Stage Satiric Comedy and Censorship in the Early Eighteenth Century | 19 |
Fielding and the Politics of Satire 17281737 | 55 |
The Establishment of the Licensing Act and Its Effects on Satiric Drama 17371747 | 95 |
Performing Aristophanes Foote and the Resurgence of Personal Satire 17471776 | 134 |
Macklin and the New Satire 17461781 | 172 |
Epilogue | 209 |
The Spoild Child | 214 |
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Bibliography | 279 |
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