Licensed by Authority: Ben Jonson and the Discourses of Censorship

by RichardBurt (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1993

  $13.62

  Focuses on Jonson as an embodiment of the contradictions and complexities of early Stuart censorship of the theater: he was repeatedly censored in his early career and a censor himself later. Burt (English, U. of Massachusetts) concludes that the goal was not to stifle playwrights, but to legitimate

• New

  Hardcover
  1993

  $15.25

  Focuses on Jonson as an embodiment of the contradictions and complexities of early Stuart censorship of the theater: he was repeatedly censored in his early career and a censor himself later. Burt (English, U. of Massachusetts) concludes that the goal was not to stifle playwrights, but to legitimate