Based on conference held Dublin, September-October 2010.

Originally published in 2016.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. First-Hand Experiences of Censorship. The Dictator's Gift of Censorship / Fernando Arrabal ; The Strategy of Communist Censorship in Poland towards the Most Critical and Subversive Student Theatre Productions of 1978 and 1979 / Juliusz Tyszka ; Between the Silence of Submission and the Challenges of Authenticity: Theatrical Censorship in Franco's Spain (1939-75) / Patricia W. O'Connor ; Theatre Censorship in South Asia: Hegemony and Ambivalence / Abhi Subedi ; Silence One Story and Another is Born: Experience of Censorship in Iran and the UK in 2010 / Lisa Goldman -- Part II. Censorship in Authoritarian Regimes. Who was Afraid of Fernando Arrabal? The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria in Yugoslavia / Denis Poniz ; Hide and Seek: Selected Stratagems of Polish Independent Theatre Companies / Joanna Ostrowska ; Der Georgsberg: The Economy as Theatre in the German Democratic Republic / Barrie Baker ; Bowdlerised Shakespeare Productions in Hungary and Portugal / Zsófia Gombár ; Theatre Censorship in Portugal during the Estado Novo: Policies, Censors, Organisation and Procedures / Ana Cabrera ; An Overview of Theatre Censorship in Brazil (1925-1970) / Mayra Rodrigues Gomes & Eliza Bachega Casadei ; Mapping Translated Theatre in Spain through Censorship Archives / Raquel Merino Álvarez ; Regime Loyalty and Rebellion: Re-Inventing the Colonial Censorship Nightmare in Zimbabwe / Praise Zenenga -- Part III. Censorship in Democratic States. Stage Irish Neutrality: Theatre Censorship during the 'Emergency', 1939-45 / Donal Ó Drisceoil ; Not Recommended for Licence: British Theatre Censorship under the Lord Chamberlain / Steve Nicholson ; Freedom of Speech and Hair: The Legal Legacy / John H. Houchin ; Anthony Neilson's Stitching and the High Moral Ground: A Case Study from Malta / Vicki Ann Cremona ; Conclusion: The Power of Theatre / Michael Thompson.