{"product_id":"libels-and-theater-in-shakespeares-england-publics-politics-performance-hardback-9781009362764","title":"Libels and Theater in Shakespeare's England; Publics, Politics, Performance (Hardback) 9781009362764","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLibels and Theater in Shakespeare's England\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePublics, Politics, Performance\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe first comprehensive history of the Elizabethan libel, this interdisciplinary account traces a viral and often virulent media ecosystem.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJoseph Mansky (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009362764, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 19 October 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e268 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.8 x 2 cm, 0.53 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Mansky's study is a subtle and meticulously crafted addition to early modern studies, integrating rich archival research with theoretical insight.' Yaxin Shi, Sixteenth Century Journal\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn the first comprehensive history of libels in Elizabethan England, Joseph Mansky traces the crime across law, literature, and culture, outlining a viral and often virulent media ecosystem.  During the 1590s, a series of crises – simmering xenophobia, years of dearth and hunger, surges of religious persecution – sparked an extraordinary explosion of libeling. The same years also saw the first appearances of libels on London stages. Defamatory, seditious texts were launched into the sky, cast in windows, recited in court, read from pulpits, and seized by informers. Avatars of sedition, libels nonetheless empowered ordinary people to pass judgment on the most controversial issues and persons of the day. They were marked by mobility, swirling across the early modern media and across class, confessional, and geographical lines. Ranging from Shakespearean drama to provincial pageantry, this book charts a public sphere poised between debate and defamation, between free speech and fake news.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: Seeds of Sedition\u003cbr\u003e Part I The Scene of Libel\u003cbr\u003e 1. How to Read a Libel in Early Modern England\u003cbr\u003e 2. Playing Libel from Cambridge to Kendal\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Libels on the Elizabethan Stage\u003cbr\u003e 3. Libels Supplicatory: Shakespeare and Peele's Titus Andronicus\u003cbr\u003e 4. Libel, Equity, and Law in Sir Thomas More\u003cbr\u003e 5. Jane Shore's Public: Pity and Politics in Heywood's Edward IV\u003cbr\u003e 6. Turning Plays into Libels: Satire and Sedition in Jonson's Poetaster.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52413992108312,"sku":"9781009362764","price":84.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009362764i.jpg?v=1784334441","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/libels-and-theater-in-shakespeares-england-publics-politics-performance-hardback-9781009362764","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}