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Riot and Great Anger Irish Studies in Literature and Culture Riot and Great Anger Stage Censorship in Twentieth-Century Ireland Joan FitzPatrick Dean THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS The University of Wisconsin Press 1930 Monroe Street, 3rd Floor Madison, Wisconsin 53711-2059 uwpress.wisc.edu 3 Henrietta Street London WC2E 8LU, England eurospanbookstore.com Copyright © 2004 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any format or by any means, digital, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or conveyed via the Internet or a Web site without written permission of the University of Wisconsin Press, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles and reviews. 3 5 4 2 Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Dean, Joan FitzPatrick. Riot and great anger: stage censorship in twentieth-century Ireland / Joan FitzPatrick Dean. p. cm.—(Irish studies in literature and culture) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-299-19660-7 (cloth: alk. paper) 1. Theater—Censorship—Ireland—History—20th century. I. Title. II. Series. PN2044.I73D43 2004 363.31´09417´0904—dc22 2003022354 ISBN 978-0-299-19664-6 (pbk.: alk. paper) As an Irishwoman, I desire to enter a most emphatic protest against Mr. J. M. Synge’s new comedy, “The Playboy of the Western World.” —A Western Girl 2 Freeman’s Journal,28 January 1907 I am an 18-year-old UCD student who was shocked and dis- appointed to discover that the play Barbaric Comedies is staged in our National Theatre. —Aisling Murray Irish Times,20 October 2000 Table of Contents Acknowledgments xi List of Abbreviations xiii Introduction 3 1 Theatrical Censorship and Disorder in Ireland 11 2 Theatre, Art, and Censorship 34 3 “The Evil Genius” 60 4 “The Boom of the Ban” 86 5 The Riot in Westport; or, George A. Birmingham at Home 100 6 The Freedom of the Theatre in the Irish Free State, 1922–1929 114 7 Irish Stage Censorship from Salome through Roly Poly 127 8 The Fifties 146 9 New Theatrical Economies 177 Conclusion 198 Notes 203 Selected Bibliography 237 Index 253 ix
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