Licensing, Censorship and Authorship in Early Modern England: Buggeswords

by Richard Dutton

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312236247
• ISBN13: 9780312236243
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.9"