Licensing, Censorship and Authorship in Early Modern England: Buggeswords (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780312236243)

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.

Author: R. Dutton
ISBN-10: 0312236247
ISBN-13: 9780312236243
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 02/09/2001
Pages: 218
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 8.88h x 5.72w x 0.79d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2001 pg. 234