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Literature and Censorship in Renaissance England (Paperback)

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By Andrew Hadfield (Editor)
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Preface List of Abbreviations Notes on the Contributors Chronology Introduction: The Politics of Early Modern Censorship; A.Hadfield PART ONE: THEATRICAL CENSORSHIP Theatrical Censorship and Negotiation; J.Clare Puritan Tribulation and the Protestant History Play; S.Longstaffe Elizabethan Protest, Disorder, and 'Precautionary' Playing Restraints: Social Control Masquerading as Plague Control; B.Freedman The Censorship of A Gate at Chess; R.Dutton PART TWO: RELIGIOUS CENSORSHIP Right Puissance and Terrible Priests: The Role of the Anglican Church in Elizabethan State Censorship; R.McCabe What is a Catholic Poem?: Explicitness and Censorship in Tudor and Stuart Religious Verse; A.Shell John Foxe and the Godly Commonwealth, 1563-1641; D.Loades Archbishop Laud and the Licensing of Books for the Press; A.Hunt PART THREE: POLITICAL CENSORSHIP Censoring Ireland in Early Modern England; A.Hadfield Burning Books as Propaganda in Jacobean England; C.Clegg The Censorship of Andrew Marvell; A.Patterson AFTERWORD Doing the Queen: Gender, Sexuality, and the Censorship of Elizabeth's I's Royal Image from Renaissance Portraiture to Twentieth-Century Mass Media; R.Burt Index.

About the Author


RICHARD BURT Professor of English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst JANET CLARE Lecturer in English, University College, Dublin RICHARD DUTTON Professor of English, Lancaster University BARBARA FREEDMAN Associate Professor, Graduate Program in Theatre, Tufts University ARNOLD HUNT Lecturer, University of Durham DAVID LOADES Professor of History, University of Wales, Bangor STEPHEN LONGSTAFFE Lecturer in English and Drama, Saint Martin's College, Lancaster RICHARD McCABE Fellow, Merton College, Oxford ANNABEL PATTERSON Professor of English, Yale University ALISON SHELL Lecturer, Department of English Studies, University of Durham

Product Details
ISBN: 9781349658398
ISBN-10: 1349658391
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Publication Date: June 5th, 2001
Pages: 234
Language: English