The Culture of Slander in Early Modern England
| Author | : M. Lindsay Kaplan |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 164 |
| Release | : 1997-10-13 |
| ISBN-10 | : 0521584086 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9780521584081 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (081 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Culture of Slander in Early Modern England 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. 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.
