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Author Chiari, Sophie

Title Freedom and Censorship in Early Modern English Literature
Published Milton : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (253 pages)
Series Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture Ser
Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture Ser
Contents Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Textual Note; General Introduction: "To be seen and allowed": Early Modern Regulation Practices; PART I: Burning, Forbidding, Controlling: The Power of Censors; 1 An Incident in the History of English Book Burning; 2 Satire, Immoderation and the Bishops' Ban of 1599; 3 "I like not this": Censorship, Self-Censorship and Collaboration in Early Modern Dramatic Manuscripts; 4 The Limits of a Censor's Authority: The Case of the Masters of the Revels
PART II: Dramatic Constraints, Dramatic Freedom: Case Studies5 Revisiting an Old Controversy: Censorship in Doctor Faustus; 6 "An you talk in blank verse": The Poetics of Liberty in As You Like It; 7 The Malcontent's Fool, Censorship and the Construction of the Subject; 8 "Let him speak no more": Trust, Censorship and Early Modern Anti-Confession; PART III: Censorship on the Page: Translation, Poetry, and Editorial Practices; 9 What Florio did not Translate: The Return of the Repressed in the English Rendering of Montaigne's Essays
10 Spenser's Strategies of Indirect Representation in The Faerie Queene (1590)11 (Self- )Censorship in Lady Mary Wroth's The Countess of Montgomery's Urania (1621-1630?); 12 "No cloudy stuff to puzzle the brain": 'Fair Editing' and Censorship in John Benson's Edition of Shakespeare's Poems (1640); Coda: Early Modern English Censorship in European Context; Bibliography; Index
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ISBN 9780429684210
0429684215
9780429684203
0429684207