The Culture of Slander in Early Modern England

ISBN-13: 9780521584081 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 164 str.

M. Lindsay Kaplan; M. Lindsay Kaplan

Opis

Slander constitutes a central social, legal and literary concern of early modern England. M. Lindsay Kaplan reveals it to be an effective, if unstable, means of repudiating one's opposition, and shows how it was deployed by rulers and poets including Spenser, Jonson and Shakespeare. Her study challenges recent claims that the state controlled poets' criticisms by means of censorship, arguing instead that power relations between poets and the state are more accurately described in terms of the reversible charge of slander.

Recenzje

'… this thoughtful and thought-provoking book deserves a warm welcome.' Renaissance Journal

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Introduction: censorship versus slander; 1. The paradox of slander; 2. Allegories of defamation in The Faerie Queene Books IV-VI; 3. Satire and the arraignment of the Poetaster; 4. Slander for slander in Measure for Measure; Conclusion; Notes; Works cited; Index.