Global insights on theatre censorship

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Censorship and Creative Freedom -- Theatre Censorship Apparatuses: Summaries of the Systems Discussed in this Volume -- PART I: First-Hand Experiences of Censorship -- 1 The Dictator's Gift of Censorship -- 2 The Strategy of Communist Censorship in Poland towards the Most Critical and Subversive Student Theatre Productions of 1978 and 1979 -- 3 Between the Silence of Submission and the Challenges of Authenticity: Theatrical Censorship in Franco's Spain (1939-75) -- 4 Theatre Censorship in South Asia: Hegemony and Ambivalence -- 5 Silence One Story and Another is Born: Experience of Censorship in Iran and the UK in 2010 -- PART II: Censorship in Authoritarian Regimes -- 6 Who was Afraid of Fernando Arrabal? The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria in Yugoslavia -- 7 Hide and Seek: Selected Stratagems of Polish Independent Theatre Companies -- 8 Der Georgsberg: The Economy as Theatre in the German Democratic Republic -- 9 Bowdlerised Shakespeare Productions in Hungary and Portugal -- 10 Theatre Censorship in Portugal during the Estado Novo: Policies, Censors, Organisation and Procedures -- 11 An Overview of Theatre Censorship in Brazil (1925-1970) -- 12 Mapping Translated Theatre in Spain through Censorship Archives -- 13 Regime Loyalty and Rebellion: Re-Inventing the Colonial Censorship Nightmare in Zimbabwe -- PART III: Censorship in Democratic States -- 14 Stage Irish Neutrality: Theatre Censorship during the 'Emergency', 1939-45 -- 15 Not Recommended for Licence: British Theatre Censorship under the Lord Chamberlain -- 16 Freedom of Speech and Hair: The Legal Legacy -- 17 Anthony Neilson's Stitching and the High Moral Ground: A Case Study from Malta -- Conclusion: The Power of Theatre -- Contributors