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Lädt ... Censorship and Interpretation: The Conditions of Writing and Reading in Early Modern England (1984)von Annabel M. Patterson
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Annabel Patterson explores the effects of censorship on both writing and reading in early modern England, drawing analogies and connections with France during the same time. The result is an original account of the interpretive and communicative systems we call culture. Patterson's work will interest anyone concerned with the relationship between art and politics. A new introduction by the author underscores the relevance of a historical perspective on censorship to contemporary culture. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Patterson breaks her study up into times and genres, examining the dangerous game of political criticism from the reign of Elizabeth through to the arrival of William of Orange. She examines straightforward (or as straightforward as anyone dared) pamphleteering; the work of poets including Donne, Jonson, Milton and Dryden; and plays both produced and banned. One of the most interesting sections of this book analyses what Shakespeare might have been up to when he wrote King Lear - and what James I might have thought when it was staged for him. The chapter on romances travels from Arcadia, Sir Philip Sidney's response to his banishment from the court of Elizabeth for giving an unwelcome piece of advice, to works such as The Princess Cloria and Panthalia, which from the vantage point of the Restoration look back across the times of Charles I and Cromwell, and demonstrates how this allegorical form was used as a vehicle for political protest.
The final part of the book deals with letters as a genre, showing through a series of quotations from hesitant, muted, incomplete communications how a culture of suspicion and censorship impacts even upon the most private of human interactions. Disturbingly, it is evident that - writing in 1984, appropriately enough - Annabel Patterson felt her own book to be a form of protest against increased censorship and a climate of decreased freedom of speech. The book as a whole is clearly intended as a warning against "forgetting history".