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The Master of Revels was originally charged with keeping politics and religion out of court entertainment. This 1913 history traces the institution of censorship through the reign of Charles II (1660-1685), when plays were banned for sexual content, through Georgian issues such as the battle over George Bernard Shaw’s Mrs. Warren’s Profession.
Freedom and Censorship in Early Modern English Literature
Censorship and the Press, 1580-1720, Volume 2
Writing and Censorship in Britain
Censorship and the Press, 1580-1720, Volume 3
Censorship and the Press, 1580-1720, Volume 4
Censorship of Eighteenth-Century Theatre
Censorship and Cultural Sensibility
Global Insights on Theatre Censorship
Masters of the Revels and Elizabeth I's Court Theatre
Theatre and Culture in Early Modern England, 1650-1737
Censorship and the Representation of the Sacred in Nineteenth-Century England
Forms of Hypocrisy in Early Modern England