ANDREW HADFIELD is Professor of English at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He has published widely on Renaissance literature and culture. His most recent books are Literature, Travel and Colonial Writing in the English Renaissance, 1545-1652 and The Blackwell Guide to English Renaissance Literature 1500-1620. He is a regular reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement.

• Preface List of Abbreviations Notes on the Contributors Chronology Introduction: The Politics of Early Modern Censorship; A.Hadfield PART ONE: THEATRICAL CENSORSHIP Theatrical Censorship and Negotiation; J.Clare Puritan Tribulation and the Protestant History Play; S.Longstaffe Elizabethan Protest, Disorder, and 'Precautionary' Playing Restraints: Social Control Masquerading as Plague Control; B.Freedman The Censorship of A Gate at Chess ; R.Dutton PART TWO: RELIGIOUS CENSORSHIP Right Puissance and Terrible Priests: The Role of the Anglican Church in Elizabethan State Censorship; R.McCabe What is a Catholic Poem?: Explicitness and Censorship in Tudor and Stuart Religious Verse; A.Shell John Foxe and the Godly Commonwealth, 1563-1641; D.Loades Archbishop Laud and the Licensing of Books for the Press; A.Hunt PART THREE: POLITICAL CENSORSHIP Censoring Ireland in Early Modern England; A.Hadfield Burning Books as Propaganda in Jacobean England; C.Clegg The Censorship of Andrew Marvell; A.Patterson AFTERWORD Doing the Queen: Gender, Sexuality, and the Censorship of Elizabeth's I's Royal Image from Renaissance Portraiture to Twentieth-Century Mass Media; R.Burt Index

'...authoritative within the field.' - R.S.White, English, Communication and Cultural Studies, The University of Western Australia, Parergon 'This collection of essays makes an important contribution to the history of censorship, justly described by its editor Andrew Hadfield as 'one of the most exciting and controversial subjects in literary history'...These essays, together with excellent work by scholars newer to the field, advance and refine the still-developing picture of Renaissance censorship.' - Times Literary Supplement