Disciplining satire
Subtitle: the censorship of satiric comedy on the eighteenth-century London stage
By: Matthew J. Kinservik.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Lewisburg, [PA]; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
Subjects: English drama -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Theater -- Censorship -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Drama -- Censorship -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Censorship -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Theater -- England -- London -- History -- 18th century; English drama (Comedy) -- History and criticism; Satire, English -- History and criticism
Description: "This book examines the effects of the Stage Licensing Act of 1737 on its main target, satiric comedy. The Licensing Act is generally considered to have been a significant and repressive censorship law (it was not repealed until 1968), but very little is known about how it actually worked and what effects it had on satiric comedy.

Focusing on the playwriting careers of Henry Fielding, Samuel Foote, and Charles Macklin, the three most controversial and heavily censored satiric dramatists of the century, Disciplining Satire pays particular attention to what type of satiric expression the law encouraged, not just to what it prohibited."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-290) and index.