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Mastering the revels : the regulation and censorship of early modern drama / Richard Dutton.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR658.C4 D87 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dutton, Richard, 1948- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.
- English drama.
- English drama--17th century--History and criticism.
- Theater--Censorship--Great Britain--History--16th century.
- Theater.
- Theater--Censorship--Great Britain--History--17th century.
- Drama--Censorship--Great Britain--History--16th century.
- Drama.
- Drama--Censorship--Great Britain--History--17th century.
- Renaissance--England.
- Renaissance.
- Drama--Censorship.
- English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan.
- Theater--Censorship.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 387 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2022.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 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?
- Buc and the Children of the Blackfriars
- Wider Issues Arising
- Other Theatrical Changes
- 5b. The `Little Eyases' and the Early Years of James's Reign
- Philotas
- Gowrie
- The Malcontent and The Dutch Courtesan
- Eastward Ho!
- Sejanus
- The Isle of Gulls
- The Byron and Scottish Mines Plays
- The Winding Up of the Blackfriars Boys
- Libel
- 6. Sir George Buc, 1610
- 1622, and Topical Readings
- The Second Maiden's Tragedy
- Sir John Van Olden Barnavelt
- Theatrical Control during Buc's Tenure of Office
- 7. From Astley to Herbert: The Contest for Office, 1622
- 1623
- Astley
- Astley to Herbert
- 8. 1623
- 1642: Sir Henry Herbert, A Master at Work
- Getting His Feet under the Table
- Turning Authority into Money
- Share Owner and Arbitrator
- Censorship and Non-censorship
- Closer to Home
- Philip, Earl of Pembroke and the Duke of Buckingham: The Uses of Drama
- 1632
- 1634
- 1634
- 1642.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 1991.
- Previously issued title as "Mastering the revels: the regulation and censorship of English Renaissance drama".
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780198819455
- 0198819455
- OCLC:
- 1328012084
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