Licensing, Censorship and Authorship in Early Modern England

Richard Dutton is Professor of English, Lancaster University.

• Acknowledgements Notes on Texts and Preface The Regulation and Censorship of Early Modern Drama Licensed Fools: The 1598 Watershed Obscenity and Profanity: Sir Henry Herbert's Problems with the Players and Archbishop Laud, 1632-34 Marlowe: Censorship and Construction Shakespeare: The Birth of the Author Jonson: The Epistle to Volpone Middleton: The Censorships of A Game at Chess Buggeswords: The Case of Sir Henry Hayward's Life of Henry IV Works Cited and Consulted Index

"...Dutton demonstrates his commanding knowledge of the Revels Office and the most important English dramatists of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries." - Ben Jonson Journal