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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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on Texts
- Preface:Buggeswords and Analogical Reading
- 1. The Regulation and Censorship of Early Modern Drama
- 2. Licensed Fools:the 1598 Watershed
- 3. Obscenity and Profanity: Sir Henry Herbert's Problems with the Players and Archbishop Laud, 1632-34
- 4. Marlowe: Censorship and Construction
- 5. Shakespeare:the Birth of the Author
- 6. Jonson:the Epistle to Volpone
- 7. Middleton: the Censorships of A Game at Chess
- 8. Buggeswords: the Case of Sir John Hayward's Life of Henry IV
- Notes
- Works Cited and Consulted
- Index