'Art made tongue-tied by authority'
Subtitle: Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatic censorship
By: Janet Clare.
Series: The Revels plays companion library
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed exclusiveley in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Manchester; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism.; English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism.; Censorship -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century.; Censorship -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.; Theater -- Censorship -- Great Britain -- History.; Drama -- Censorship -- Great Britain -- History.
Description: Janet Clare traces the development of dramatic censorship from its origins in the suppression of the medieval religious drama to the end of the Jacobean period. She examines how the scope of censorship and the objectives of the censor varied as the Revels Office responded to the political climate; and explores the constraints under which the playwrights worked. The author questions conventional notions which regard censorship as either consistently repressive or as irregular and ineffective and shows how its operation was governed by the dynamics of the historical movement. This is the first study to bring together all the evidence of censorship, its operation and impact, from the texts themselves and other sources. The book is primarily intended for students of literature and theatre studies and those of interdisciplinary Renaissance studies, but it will also be of considerable interest to students of history and politics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.