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Article: Press Censorship in Elizabethan England.(Review)
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- Shakespeare Studies
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- January 1, 2000
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Press Censorship in Elizabethan England By Cyndia Susan Clegg Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997
In Press Censorship in Elizabethan England, Cyndia Clegg (Pepperdine University) seeks to rehistoricize the debate about the nature of censorship, the role of the author, and the supposedly hegemonic stance of the Elizabethan religious/political state. She attempts to modify Annabel Patterson's suggestion that the inconsistent application of censorship laws allowed for ambiguity and accommodation on the part of both author and censoring bodies; rather, Clegg claims that press censorship was haphazard, infrequent, and invoked only in cases that threatened to ...