Download or read book Licensing, Censorship and Authorship in Early Modern England written by R. Dutton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-11-08 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Licensing, Censorship and Authorship in Early Modern England examines in detail both how the practice of censorship shaped writing in the Shakespearean period, and how our sense of that censorship continues to shape modern understandings of what was written. Separate chapters trace the development of licensing in the theatre, and the response of the actors and dramatists to it. There are detailed examinations of how censorship affects our reading of four major playwrights: Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson and Middleton, and of how the control of printed books compared with that of the stage.