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Licensed by Authority: Ben Jonson and the Discourses of Censorship / Edition 1
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Licensed by Authority: Ben Jonson and the Discourses of Censorship / Edition 1
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Informed by the writings of Foucault and Bourdieu,
historicizes censorship, arguing that it was less a matter of denying dramatists liberty of speech than a network of productive strategies for legitimating and delegitimating specific discursive practices. Burt draws on a rich body of archival and literary evidence, including plays by Shakespeare and by Jonson's Caroline contemporaries, in order to demonstrate that censorship was nurtured and sustained not only by a culturally diverse Stuart court but also by the playwrights themselves, along with theatrical entrepreneurs, printers, poets, and critics.