Add to ORKGThe Elizabethan era is generally understood to coincide with the blossoming of English language – it was the age of Shakespeare, Sidney, and Marlowe. Yet it is known also as a period of brutality and repression: saying or writing anything against the state, the queen, or its governors might result in hanging, fines, or the loss of limbs. Defaming neighbours could and frequently did result in a day in court, with slander emerging as a byword for unacceptable speech and writing. Academic interest has long been divided into studies which focus on the power relations underpinning literary production, the ways in which authorities sought to suppress and censor transgressive material, or the role slander played in religious polemic. This book wil...
© 2020 Anna Schneider CordnerEmbodying Opposition: Early Modern Libel and the Politics of Personalit...
This thesis argues that in seventeenth century England, the tongue, or more specifically the female ...
This dissertation examines early modern literary engagements with the rhetorical and ethical dimensi...
The Elizabethan era is generally understood to coincide with the blossoming of English language – it...
The Elizabethan era is generally understood to coincide with the blossoming of English language – it...
Slander and sedition represented pervasive and dangerous forces in the early modern period. Accordin...
Slander and sedition represented pervasive and dangerous forces in the early modern period. Accordin...
In 1653, the playwright, poet and antiquarian Arthur Wilson’s The History of Great Britain, being th...
In sixteenth and seventeenth century England slander was increasingly understood as a distempering f...
This study has two primary purposes; to examine the evolution of the concepts and statutes of Tudor ...
Historians have debated the usefulness of investigating slander, given its status as an anomalous fo...
In The Misfortunes of Arthur (1588), the Elizabethan lawyers who staged an allegorical confrontation...
From the Jesuit infiltration of 1580 through the mid-1590s, the Elizabethan Crown turned to traditio...
This article presents a new account of the development of the law of seditious libel from the late s...
From the Jesuit infiltration of 1580 through the mid-1590s, the Elizabethan Crown turned to traditio...
© 2020 Anna Schneider CordnerEmbodying Opposition: Early Modern Libel and the Politics of Personalit...
This thesis argues that in seventeenth century England, the tongue, or more specifically the female ...
This dissertation examines early modern literary engagements with the rhetorical and ethical dimensi...
The Elizabethan era is generally understood to coincide with the blossoming of English language – it...
The Elizabethan era is generally understood to coincide with the blossoming of English language – it...
Slander and sedition represented pervasive and dangerous forces in the early modern period. Accordin...
Slander and sedition represented pervasive and dangerous forces in the early modern period. Accordin...
In 1653, the playwright, poet and antiquarian Arthur Wilson’s The History of Great Britain, being th...
In sixteenth and seventeenth century England slander was increasingly understood as a distempering f...
This study has two primary purposes; to examine the evolution of the concepts and statutes of Tudor ...
Historians have debated the usefulness of investigating slander, given its status as an anomalous fo...
In The Misfortunes of Arthur (1588), the Elizabethan lawyers who staged an allegorical confrontation...
From the Jesuit infiltration of 1580 through the mid-1590s, the Elizabethan Crown turned to traditio...
This article presents a new account of the development of the law of seditious libel from the late s...
From the Jesuit infiltration of 1580 through the mid-1590s, the Elizabethan Crown turned to traditio...
© 2020 Anna Schneider CordnerEmbodying Opposition: Early Modern Libel and the Politics of Personalit...
This thesis argues that in seventeenth century England, the tongue, or more specifically the female ...
This dissertation examines early modern literary engagements with the rhetorical and ethical dimensi...