The Culture of Slander in Early Modern England

M. Lindsay (Georgetown University, Washington DC) Kaplan

Cambridge University Press, 1997

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Slander constitutes a central social, legal and literary concern of early modern England. M. Lindsay Kaplan reveals it to be an effective, if unstable, means of repudiating those perceived to be foes, and shows how it was deployed by rulers and poets including Spenser, Jonson and Shakespeare.

ISBN-13
9780521584081
ISBN-10
0521584086
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1997
Publication date
1997-10-13
Pages
164
Dimensions
235x161x17
Weight
402