Libels and Theater in Shakespeare's England
Publics, Politics, Performance
Seiten
2023
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-36276-4 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-36276-4 (ISBN)
The first comprehensive history of libels in Elizabethan England, this interdisciplinary study traces the crime across law, literature, and culture, focusing especially on the theater. Ranging from Shakespeare to provincial pageantry, it provides a fresh account of early modern drama and the viral media ecosystem springing up around it.
In the first comprehensive history of libels in Elizabethan England, Joseph Mansky traces the crime across law, literature, and culture, outlining a viral and often virulent media ecosystem. During the 1590s, a series of crises – simmering xenophobia, years of dearth and hunger, surges of religious persecution – sparked an extraordinary explosion of libeling. The same years also saw the first appearances of libels on London stages. Defamatory, seditious texts were launched into the sky, cast in windows, recited in court, read from pulpits, and seized by informers. Avatars of sedition, libels nonetheless empowered ordinary people to pass judgment on the most controversial issues and persons of the day. They were marked by mobility, swirling across the early modern media and across class, confessional, and geographical lines. Ranging from Shakespearean drama to provincial pageantry, this book charts a public sphere poised between debate and defamation, between free speech and fake news.
In the first comprehensive history of libels in Elizabethan England, Joseph Mansky traces the crime across law, literature, and culture, outlining a viral and often virulent media ecosystem. During the 1590s, a series of crises – simmering xenophobia, years of dearth and hunger, surges of religious persecution – sparked an extraordinary explosion of libeling. The same years also saw the first appearances of libels on London stages. Defamatory, seditious texts were launched into the sky, cast in windows, recited in court, read from pulpits, and seized by informers. Avatars of sedition, libels nonetheless empowered ordinary people to pass judgment on the most controversial issues and persons of the day. They were marked by mobility, swirling across the early modern media and across class, confessional, and geographical lines. Ranging from Shakespearean drama to provincial pageantry, this book charts a public sphere poised between debate and defamation, between free speech and fake news.
Joseph Mansky is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma.
Introduction: Seeds of Sedition; Part I The Scene of Libel; 1. How to Read a Libel in Early Modern England; 2. Playing Libel from Cambridge to Kendal; Part II. Libels on the Elizabethan Stage; 3. Libels Supplicatory: Shakespeare and Peele's Titus Andronicus; 4. Libel, Equity, and Law in Sir Thomas More; 5. Jane Shore's Public: Pity and Politics in Heywood's Edward IV; 6. Turning Plays into Libels: Satire and Sedition in Jonson's Poetaster.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.10.2023 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 548 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-36276-3 / 1009362763 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-36276-4 / 9781009362764 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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