Art Made Tongue-tied by Authority: Elizabethan and Jacobean Dramatic Censorship

Art Made Tongue-tied by Authority: Elizabethan and Jacobean Dramatic Censorship
ISBN-10
0719056950
ISBN-13
9780719056956
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
242
Language
English
Published
1999
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Author
Janet Clare

Description

In this work, Janet Clare maintains that to understand dramatic and theatrical censorship in the Renaissance we need to map its terrain, not its serial changes and examine the language through which it was articulated. In tracing the development of dramatic censorship from its origins in the suppression of the medieval religious drama to the end of the Jacobean period, she shows how the system of censorship which operated under Elizabeth I and James I was dynamic, unstable and unpredictable. The author questions notions which regard censorship as either consistently repressive or as irregular and negotiable, arguing that it was governed by the contingencies of the historical moment.

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