Freedom and Censorship in Early Modern English Literature

ISBN-13: 9780367664909 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 236 str.

Sophie Chiari

Opis

Broadening the notion of censorship, this volume explores the transformative role played by early modern censors in the fashioning of a distinct English literature in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

Table of illustrations

Textual Note

Notes on Contributors

General Introduction:‘"To be seen and allowed": Early Modern Regulation Practices’

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’

5. ‘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’





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’

General Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Sophie Chiari is Professor of early modern English Literature at Université Clermont Auvergne, France. She is the author of Shakespeare’s Representations of Climate, Weather and Environment: The Early Modern ‘Fated Sky’ (Edinburgh University Press, 2018); As You Like It: Shakespeare’s Comedy of Liberty (Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 2016); Love’s Labour’s Lost: Shakespeare’s Anatomy of Wit (Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 2014). She has also edited or co-edited several collections of essays such as Spectacular Science, Technology and Superstition in the Age of Shakespeare, Edinburgh University Press, 2017 (with Mickaël Popelard); and The Circulation of Knowledge in Early Modern English Literature, Ashgate, 2015. She is currently co-editing with John Mucciolo a volume on early modern court performances.