Censorship and the Permissive Society

Stage or film presentations of Look Back in Anger A Taste of Honey Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Alfie and Darling were much changed even transformed by censorship between 1955-1965. Indeed censorship altered the progression of the artistic and creative renaissance of the period and John Osborne Shelagh Delaney Alan Sillitoe Tony Richardson Lindsay Anderson and John Schlesinger are just a few of the people who were forced to change their work.Censorship and the Permissive Society explores the predicament writers and directors faced and highlights the debate over the liberalizing or progressive aspects of the sea changes affecting British society at the time.