Performing libel in the provinces : community conflict in early modern England / Clare Egan.
| Author/creator | Egan, Clare author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025] |
| Copyright Date | ©2025 |
| Description | vi, 296 pages ; 24 cm |
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| Abstract | "'Performing Libel in the Provinces' provides a book-length study of the dramatic traditions and literary features of private libel occurring in the provinces of Jacobean England. The early modern phenomenon of private libel saw communal scandals creatively couched in verses, symbols, or mock-ceremonies and read, sung, posted, and published in prominent local places and spaces across the English provinces. By the early modern period, libelling a private individual had been criminalized and was being tried at the court of Star Chamber, alongside cases relating to the slander of monarchy and government. This remarkable conflation and criminalization of private libel brought the ruination of individual reputations in the provinces into the same realms as the circulation of false news of national concern."--Publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-291) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Egan, Clare. Performing libel in the provinces. Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025] 9780198955542 |
| ISBN | 9780198955511 |
| ISBN | 0198955510 (hardback) |
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| ISBN | (ebook) |
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