The Palgrave Handbook of Theatre Censorship

Anne Etienne lectures in Modern and Contemporary Drama in the School of English and Digital Humanities, University College Cork, Ireland. Her research focuses on theatre censorship, Arnold Wesker and contemporary Irish theatre. She has authored essays on these topics for international journals and collective volumes. Her publications include Theatre Censorship: from Walpole to Wilson (2007), and the co-edited volumes Populating the Stage: Contemporary Irish Theatre (2017), Arnold Wesker: Fragments and Visions (2021), Adult Themes: British Cinema and the X Certificate in the Long 1960s (2023), and Theatre Censorship in Contemporary Europe: Silence and Protest (2024). She is co-editor of the series Palgrave Studies in Cultural Censorship .

Graham Saunders is the Allardyce Nicoll Chair of Drama in the Department of Drama and Theatre Arts at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is author of Love me or Kill me: Sarah Kane and the Theatre of Extremes (2002), About Kane: the Playwright and the Work (2009), Patrick Marber’s Closer (2008), British Theatre Companies 1980-1994 (2015), Elizabethan and Jacobean Reappropriation in Contemporary British Drama: ‘Upstart Crows’ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), and Harold Pinter (2023). He is co-editor of Cool Britannia: Political Theatre in the 1990s (2008); Sarah Kane in Context (2010) and Arnold Wesker: Fragments and Visions (2021). He is co-series editor for Modern and Contemporary Dramatists - Stage and Screen and  Palgrave Studies in Cultural Censorship .