Censoring the Playbill: The Case of the Gamblers
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Gillian Russell, professor of 18th-century literature at the University of York, presents on the relationship between the crimes and "melodrama" in everyday life of 18th-century Britain and the censorship and criticism of real-crime dramatization.
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