Spies in show business
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What's the Impact of a Theatrical Censorship?
Spies were pretty much censored out on the stage and in film until the first world bore, and er afterwards. So this extraordinary popular art form would have emerged much earlier had it not been for censorship. But i don't think there's anybodywho ecus popan for having begun her career as a spy before becoming a dramatist. She has a better reputation than any other learned dramatist from the english restoration.
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