Licensing, Censorship and Authorship in Early Modern England: Buggeswords

Dutton, R.

Licensing, Censorship and Authorship in Early Modern England examines in detail both how the practice of censorship shaped writing in the Shakespearean period, and how our sense of that censorship continues to shape modern understandings of what was written. Separate chapters trace the development of licensing in the theatre, and the response of the actors and dramatists to it. There are detailed examinations of how censorship affects our reading of four major playwrights: Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson and Middleton, and of how the control of printed books compared with that of the stage.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2001-02-09

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780312236243

DOI: 10.1057/9780230598713

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 218