This 2001 book examines the ways in which books were produced, read and received during the reign of King James I. It challenges prevailing attitudes that press

Helps scholars to examine historical press censorship in England. This title draws together around 500 texts, reaching across 140 years from the rigours of the

In this work, Janet Clare maintains that to understand dramatic and theatrical censorship in the Renaissance we need to map its terrain, not its serial changes

A study of the content and methods of royalist propaganda via newsbooks in the crucial period following the end of the first civil war. This is a study of a rem

In this study of the reciprocities binding religion, politics, law, and literature, Debora Shuger offers a profoundly new history of early modern English censor