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The first comprehensive history of libels in Elizabethan England, this interdisciplinary study traces the crime across law, literature, and culture, focusing es
What did publicity look like before the eighteenth century? What were its uses and effects, and around whom was it organized? The essays in this collection ask
Although we take for granted that drama was crucial to the political culture of Renaissance England, we rarely consider one of its most basic functions, namely,