Licensed by Authority : : Ben Jonson and the Discourses of Censorship /

Licensed by Authority : : Ben Jonson and the Discourses of Censorship / / Richard Burt.

A dramatist whose own works were repeatedly censored early in his career and who later stood in succession to become the court censor himself, Ben Jonson embodies the contradictions and complexities of theater censorship in the early Stuart period. Focusing on Jonson's writings and the politica...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Burt, Richard,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©1993
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • INTRODUCTION.
  • CHAPTER ONE. Branding the Body, Burning the Book: Censorship, Criticism, and the Consumption of Jonson’s Corpus
  • CHAPTER TWO. Licensing Authorities: Jonson, Shakespeare, and the Politics of Theatrical Professionalism
  • CHAPTER THREE. Th’Only Catos of This Critick Age: Late Jonson and the Reformation of Caroline Tastes
  • CONCLUSION.
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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