The Culture of Slander in Early Modern England
Download or Read eBook The Culture of Slander in Early Modern England PDF written by M. Lindsay Kaplan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-10-13 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : M. Lindsay Kaplan |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 164 |
| Release | : 1997-10-13 |
| ISBN-10 | : 0521584086 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9780521584081 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Culture of Slander in Early Modern England by : M. Lindsay Kaplan
Book excerpt: Slander constitutes a central social, legal and literary concern of early modern England. M. Lindsay Kaplan reveals it to be an effective, if unstable, means of repudiating one's opposition, and shows how it was deployed by rulers and poets including Spenser, Jonson and Shakespeare. Her study challenges recent claims that the state controlled poets' criticisms by means of censorship, arguing instead that power relations between poets and the state are more accurately described in terms of the reversible charge of slander.
