This exploration of the wide variety of censorship that has shaped theatrical performance in twentieth and twenty-first century Britain examines the unpredictable outcomes of censorship, deep-seated anxieties about the performative influence of the stage, and the complex questions raised by acts of theatrical censorship.

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HELEN FRESHWATER lectures at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, where she specializes in twentieth-century British theatre and contemporary performance. She is author of Theatre and Audience.

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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction London's Grand Guignol: Sex, Violence and the Negotiation of the Limit The Representation of Reproduction: Marie Stopes and the Female Body Suppressed Desire: Dramatic Inscriptions of Lesbianism Soldiers : Playing with History Mary Whitehouse, The Romans in Britain , and 'the Rape of our Senses' Section 28: Contagion, Control and Protest Capital Constraint: the Right to Choose? Competing Fundamentalisms: Behzti , Freedom of Speech, Sacrilege and Silencing Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index