Book: The Culture Of Slander In Early Modern England Slander constitutes a central social, legal and literary concern of early modern England. M. Lindsay Kaplan reveals it to be an effective, if unstable, means of repudiating one's opposition, and shows how it was deployed by rulers and poets including Spenser, Jonson and Shakespeare. Her study challenges recent claims that the state controlled poets' criticisms by means of censorship, arguing instead that power relations between poets and the state are more accurately described in terms of the reversible charge of slander.
Details of Book: The Culture Of Slander In Early Modern England Book: The Culture Of Slander In Early Modern England
Author: M. Lindsay Kaplan, M. Lindsay Kaplan
ISBN: 0521584086
ISBN-13: 9780521584081
, 978-0521584081
Binding: Hardcover
Publishing Date: 13101997
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Number of Pages: 164
Language: English