The Frightful Stage(English, Hardcover, unknown)

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The Frightful Stage(English, Hardcover, unknown) is written by unknown and published by Berghahn Books. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1845454596 (ISBN 10) and 9781845454593 (ISBN 13).

In nineteenth-century Europe the ruling elites viewed the theater as a form of communication which had enormous importance. The theater provided the most significant form of mass entertainment and was the only arena aside from the church in which regular mass gatherings were possible. Therefore, drama censorship occupied a great deal of the ruling class's time and energy, with a particularly focus on proposed scripts that potentially threatened the existing political, legal, and social order. This volume provides the first comprehensive examination of nineteenth-century political theater censorship at a time, in the aftermath of the French Revolution, when the European population was becoming increasingly politically active.