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Article: The Culture of Slander in Early Modern England.(Review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
- Article date:
- June 22, 1999
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M. Lindsay Kaplan, (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, 19). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xii + 148 pp. n.p. ISBN: 0-521-58408-6.
Although these two studies deal with related fields, they are very different. Lindsay Kaplan is mainly interested in the use of literary devices to reduce the credibility and 'honour' of the chosen victims. Hers is a world of courtly intrigue rather than significant politics, and attempted censorship provides little more than a background. Consequently it is a strangely insubstantial world, in which language and poetic conventions shift and reform in ways which seem to be controlled by neither logic ...