Press Censorship in Jacobean England

Table of contents

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• Title Page *
• Contents vii
• Acknowledgments viii
• Abbreviations x
• Introduction - Jacobean Press Censorship and the “unsatisfying Impasse” in the Historiography of Stuart England 1
• Chapter 1 - Authority, License, and Law: the Theory and Practice of Censorship 20
• Chapter 2 - Burning Books as Propaganda 68
• Chapter 3 - The Personal Use of Censorship in “the Wincy Age” 90
• Chapter 4 - Censorship and the Confrontation Between Prerogative and Privilege 124
• Chapter 5 - The Press and Foreign Policy, 1619–1624: “all Eies Are Directed Upon Bohemia” 161
• Chapter 6 - Ecclesiastical Faction, Censorship, and the Rhetoric of Silence 197
• Afterword 224
• Notes 230
• Bibliography 269
• Index 277