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Mastering the Revels : The Regulation and Censorship of Early Modern Drama

Oxford : Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 2022 [©2022]

1 online resource (414 pages)

Englisch

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978-0-19-255154-2

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LOC-SH: English drama

A new edition that offers detailed consideration of the role of the Master of the Revels in English Renaissance entertainments and the relationship between the politics of the court and English theatre.

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Cover -- Mastering the Revels: The Regulation and Censorship of Early Modern Drama -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Usual Practices, Abbreviations, and Citations -- A Brief History of Early Modern Theatrical Censorship and Control, in the Words of the Authors and Authorities of the Time (# 1-9) and of Scholars Since (# 10-20) -- Epigraph -- Introduction: Through a Glass, Darkly -- Thinking About Censorship -- Sejanus: An Object Lesson -- The Records of the Masters of the Revels -- 1: Country and Court: A System of Control Emerges, 1549-1579 -- Edward VI and Queen Mary -- Elizabeth I -- An Act for the Punishment of Vagabonds, 1572 -- Battle Lines Drawn -- Masters of the Revels -- 2: Tilney, Patronage, and Profit, 1579-1589 -- Edmund Tilney's Special Commission, 1581 -- Literary Skills of Masters of the Revels -- Tilney at Work -- John Lyly -- Robert Wilson -- The Sponsorship of Plays by People of Consequence -- 3: 1586-1592: Decrees for Orders in Printing -- 'Martin Marprelate' -- Tilney Reappears -- Christopher Marlowe -- Decrees for Orders in Printing, 1586 -- 'Martin Marprelate' -- Tilney's Limited Authority -- Christopher Marlowe -- 4: 1592-1602: The Theatrical World Reassembles -- Tilney's Position Consolidated -- 1592-1598 -- Falstaff -- The Isle of Dogs -- The 'Duopoly' Acknowledged -- Tilney's Authority and Income, with Some Licensing Issues -- Tilney's Censorship: (a) Richard II -- Tilney's Censorship: (b) The Book of Sir Thomas More -- Late Elizabethan Jonson -- 5a: Transition and Transgression: From Tilney to Buc, 1603-1610 -- Who Controlled What, and When? -- (a) Buc's Special Commission -- (b) The Entry in Herbert's Office-Book -- (c) Manuscript Markings -- (d) Buc's Deputy and Licensing for the Press -- Buc and the Children of the Blackfriars -- Buc's 1610/11 Payment.