Bernard Shaw and the Censors by Bernard F. Dukore

Author:Bernard F. Dukore
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030521868
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

It is hard to get a stage production of anything that is “contrary to the opinions of a large body of people.” Would the danger of causing a riot be a good reason to prevent a performance? “No. I put it on exactly the same footing as political meetings, which, in my experience, very often have ended in riot.” The same freedom applies to both. As to plays that touch on the sovereign or foreign countries, “The State might interfere by prosecution possibly. I object to a censor interfering.” What of incitements to sexual vice? If you prosecute for these, you make it possible to prosecute because the leading lady wears a pretty hat or is a pretty woman.You may make any law you like defining what is an incentive to sexual vice, but to lay down a general law of that kind with regard to unspecified incentives to sexual vice is going too far, when the mere fact of a woman washing her face and putting on decent clothes or anything of the kind, may possibly cause somebody in the street who passes to admire her and to say, “I have been incited to sexual vice.”

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