Right now the hottest ticket on Broadway is MacBeth, with Patrick
Stewart in the title role. The run is sold out--even the scalpers are
at a loss.
Mark
At 12:47 PM 5/25/2008, you wrote:
>Those were the days - the Lord Chamberlain (member of the Royal
>Household) and his malign influence on the British Theatre. In another
>email list, a long time ago, I mooted the theory that shakespeare's
>continuing popularity down the ages was due in part to the Bard's
>acceptability before the LC. My logic, fwiw, ran thus: you want to put
>on a play and in those days, the least likeliest plays to get banned
>were Shakespeares. So, you play safe, put on the Bard. Until the 60s,
>when the LC threw away his blue pencil. Nowadays, S hardly appears on
>the commercial stage.
>
>American bannings are two a penny: their school libraries have
>committees which are battle-grounds for the inclusion/exclusion of
>books. Harry Potter is a notorious example of this - the poor, deluded
>fundies trying to stave off the influence of the heathen (WTF?). There
>are lists on line of books that have been banned in the US. Are there
>any for the UK?
>
>Roger
>
>On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 9:38 AM, David Bircumshaw
><[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Lear was banned from performance between 1788-1820 when George III
> > was considered insane, and the link between stage and royalty would be
> > too close for official comfort. Contemporaneously with this Tom Paine
> > was also banned in England and, famously, Coleridge and Wordsworth
> > were watched for talking about Spinoza (Spy-noza)
> >
> > While 'Silas Marner' was banned in Anaheim CA in 1978 (?!) and '1984'
> > in Florida in 1981 because it was considered 'pro-communist' (?)
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > David Bircumshaw
> > Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
> > The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> > Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
> >
>
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>
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