Libels and Theater in Shakespeare's England

ISBN-13: 9781009362764 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 300 str.

Joseph Mansky

Opis

The first comprehensive history of the Elizabethan libel, this interdisciplinary account traces a viral and often virulent media ecosystem.

Recenzje

'Libels and Theater in Shakespeare's England convincingly argues that libel was the axis on which the early modern public sphere spun. Joseph Mansky offers an absorbing history of libel, probes the gaps between legal codes and actual practice, and nests compelling readings of famous, infamous, obscure, and lost plays within vividly recreated flashpoints of English politics from 1590 to 1620. Impressively researched and studded with new discoveries, Libels and Theater is an elegantly written, deeply engaging book that represents the best of our discipline's fusion of literary studies, history, and law.' Jeffrey Doty, University of North Texas

Spis treści

Introduction: Seeds of Sedition; Part I The Scene of Libel; 1. How to Read a Libel in Early Modern England; 2. Playing Libel from Cambridge to Kendal; Part II. Libels on the Elizabethan Stage; 3. Libels Supplicatory: Shakespeare and Peele's Titus Andronicus; 4. Libel, Equity, and Law in Sir Thomas More; 5. Jane Shore's Public: Pity and Politics in Heywood's Edward IV; 6. Turning Plays into Libels: Satire and Sedition in Jonson's Poetaster.