Tag: Censorship
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The Queer Career of Clyde Fitch
Written by Siel Agugliaro At the beginning of the last century, a playwright had four of his works being produced in Broadway at the same time. He was the first American dramatist to be regularly (and successfully) produced abroad. He wrote an impressive amount of plays, from society plays and historical dramas to farces and…
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Samuel Roth, “Prometheus of the Unprintable”
Written by Alexandra M. Wilder Samuel Roth (1893 –1974) was an American publisher and writer. Yet, he was so much more, as I discovered when I processed the Jay A. Gertzman collection on Samuel Roth, 1926-2014, Ms Coll. 1315. Jay A. Gertzman, Professor Emeritus at Mansfield University, describes Roth: “Samuel Roth publicized himself as a…
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The Literary Censorship Files of the E. Sculley Bradley papers
Written by John F. Anderies, archival processor The E. Sculley Bradley papers are now processed and available for research. Sculley Bradley was a University of Pennsylvania English professor from 1926-1967 and vice provost of undergraduate education from 1956-1963. His papers include his personal and professional correspondence, 1923-1962, material from several literary censorship cases he testified…
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