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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Clegg, Cyndia Susan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Temas:
1500-1699
Freedom of the press > Great Britain.
Censorship > Great Britain.
Censorship > England > History > 16th century.
Censorship > England > History > 17th century.
Liberté de la presse > Grande-Bretagne.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
Censorship
Freedom of the press
Censuur.
Perswezen.
Great Britain > History > Elizabeth, 1558-1603.
Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 1558-1603 (Élisabeth Ire)
England
Great Britain
Engeland.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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."

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