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Freedom and Censorship in Early Modern English Literature (Paperback)
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Freedom and Censorship in Early Modern English Literature (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
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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. In early modern England, the Privy Council,
the Bishop of London and the Archbishop of Canterbury, the
Stationers' Company, and the Master of the Revels each dealt with
their own prerogatives and implemented different forms of
censorship, with the result that authors penning both plays and
satires had to juggle with various authorities and unequal degrees
of freedom from one sector to the other. Text and press control
thus did not give way to systematic intervention but to particular
responses adapted to specific texts in a specific time. If the
restrictions imposed by regulation practices are duly acknowledged
in this edited collection, the different contributors are also keen
to enhance the positive impact of censorship on early modern
literature. The most difficult task consists in finding the exact
moment when the balance tips in favour of creativity, and the zone
where, in matters of artistic freedom, the disadvantages outweigh
the benefits. This is what the twelve chapters of the volume
proceed to do. Thanks to a wide variety of examples, they show
that, in the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, regulations seldom
prevented writers to make themselves heard, albeit through indirect
channels. By contrast, in the 1630s, the increased supremacy of the
Church seemed to tip the balance the other way.
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