Press Censorship in Elizabethan England [Paperback]

Revisionist history of Elizabethan press censorship which covers the mechanisms of control and actual censorship.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 not a routine nor a consistent mechanism. The book will become the standard reference work on Elizabethan press censorship.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 not a routine nor a consistent mechanism. The book will become the standard reference work on Elizabethan press censorship.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.Part I. The Practice of Censorship: 1. Privilege, license, and authority: the Crown and the press; 2. Elizabethan press controls; 3. Elizabethan censorship proclamations; Part II. Censored Texts: 4. Catholic propagandistslC$