Press censorship in Elizabethan England /
This is a revisionist history of press censorship in the rapidly expanding print culture of the sixteenth century. Professor Clegg establishes the nature and source of the controls, and evaluates their means and effectiveness. The state wanted to control the burgeoning press, but there were difficul...
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| 語言: | 英语 |
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1997.
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書本目錄:
- pt. I. Practice of Censorship. Privilege, license, and authority: the Crown and the press. Elizabethan press controls: "in a more calme and quiet reigne" Elizabethan censorship proclamations: "to conserve her realm in an universal good peace"
- pt. II. Censored Texts. Catholic propagandists: "concerning the Queen's majesty or the realm without licence" George Gascoigne and the rhetoric of censorship: A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres (1573) and The Posies (1575). John Stubbs's The Discovery of a Gaping Gulf and realpolitik: "The kings sin striketh the land" but "God Save the Queen" Review and reform of Holinshed's Chronicles: "reporte of matters of later yeers that concern the State."