The Stage Censor; An Historical Sketch: 1544-1907
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Johnson on Licensers OF THE Stage.
A FRENCHMAN visiting England, at the time when Walpole's Licensing Act was forced upon the country, has left some Uvely sketches of the popular reception accorded to that measure. The English temper, as Dr. Johnson pointed out in his ironic pamphlet on the Act, is a temper singularly impatient of arbitrary restraint ; nor can Englishmen '* be brought to imagine that they are kept in the dark lest too much light should hurt their eyes/' Certainly the gallery an...d pit of 1738 objected, with no uncertain voice, to having their eyes protected by a venial poUtical party.
Accordingly the French Abb6 declares 89 90 The Stage Censor that Walpole's measure provoked a " uni- versal murmur, in the nation''; at the coffee-houses it -was denounced as " unjust and contrary to the liberties of the people of England " ; and the first piece presented under the new authority was furiously damned, the audience having determined to silence "the first fruits of that Act of Parliament." It is thus that the Ahh6, who was present at the performance, sketches the scene : " The best play in the world would not have succeeded that night.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Johnson on Licensers OF THE Stage.
A FRENCHMAN visiting England, at the time when Walpole's Licensing Act was forced upon the country, has left some Uvely sketches of the popular reception accorded to that measure. The English temper, as Dr. Johnson pointed out in his ironic pamphlet on the Act, is a temper singularly impatient of arbitrary restraint ; nor can Englishmen '* be brought to imagine that they are kept in the dark lest too much light should hurt their eyes/' Certainly the gallery an...d pit of 1738 objected, with no uncertain voice, to having their eyes protected by a venial poUtical party.
Accordingly the French Abb6 declares 89 90 The Stage Censor that Walpole's measure provoked a " uni- versal murmur, in the nation''; at the coffee-houses it -was denounced as " unjust and contrary to the liberties of the people of England " ; and the first piece presented under the new authority was furiously damned, the audience having determined to silence "the first fruits of that Act of Parliament." It is thus that the Ahh6, who was present at the performance, sketches the scene : " The best play in the world would not have succeeded that night.
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