Licensing, Censorship and Authorship in Early Modern England: Buggeswords - Softcover

Dutton, R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312236247 ISBN 13: 9780312236243

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Richard Dutton is Professor of English, Lancaster University.

Review:

"...Dutton demonstrates his commanding knowledge of the Revels Office and the most important English dramatists of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries." - Ben Jonson Journal

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0312236247
• ISBN 13: 9780312236243
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 238