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Licensing Act 1737
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The Licensing Act or Theatrical Licensing Act of 21 June 1737 (citation ''10 Geo. II c. 28'') was a landmark act of censorship of the British stage and one of the determining factors in the development of Augustan drama. The Act formally provided that the Lord Chamberlain had the power to approve any play before it was staged. Previously, the privilege to censor plays was exercised by the Master of the Revels. The act was modified by the Theatres Act 1843 and was finally repealed by the Theatres Act 1968.
==Master of the Revels==
The function of censorship of plays for performance (at least in London) fell to the Master of the Revels by the time of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. The power was used mostly with respect to matters of politics and religion (including blasphemy). It was certainly exercised by Edmund Tylney, who was Master from 1579 to 1610. Tylney and his successor, George Buck, also exercised the power to censor plays for publication.〔Kincaid, Arthur. ("Buck (Buc), Sir George (bap. 1560, d. 1622)" ). ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004. Online edn., May 2008, accessed 23 January 2012 〕〔Buck was granted "a portion of the powers previously vested" in the Church Court of High Commission, to license plays for publication. Dutton, p. 149.〕 The Master of the Revels, who normally reported to the Lord Chamberlain, continued to perform the function until, with the outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642, stage plays were prohibited.〔("September 1642: Order for Stage-plays to cease" ), British History Online, accessed 6 November 2014〕 Stage plays did not return to England until the Restoration in 1660.〔Baker, p. 85〕
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