"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"--
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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.
