Plato and art censorship (fwd)
Alina Israeli
aisrael at american.edu
Fri Nov 19 17:23:38 UTC 1999
Jules F. Levin wrote:
>Exactly! The tsarist censor passed Das Kapital, and maybe Darwin, for all
>I know.
But did not pass "Gore ot uma" till some 30 years after the death of the
author. Did Shakespeare suffer the same fate when he depicted the kings in
less than flattering terms?
>And didn't the Police Commissioner of New York--Teddy Roosevelt--try
>to censor The Kreutzer Sonata when it arrived (from England?).
And did he succeed?
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