Press Censorship in Elizabethan England
Book Details
Author(s)Cyndia Susan Clegg
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN / ASIN0521545862
ISBN-139780521545860
MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷
Description
This is a revisionist history of press censorship in the rapidly expanding print culture of the sixteenth century. Clegg establishes the nature and source of the controls, and evaluates their means and effectiveness. By considering the literary and bibliographical evidence of books that were censored, and placing them in the literary, religious, economic and political culture of the time, Clegg concludes that press control was neither a routine nor a consistent mechanism. The book will become the standard reference work on Elizabethan press censorship.
