Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Jacobean press censorship and the "unsatisfying impasse" in the historiography of Stuart England
  • 1. Authority, license, and law: the theory and practice of censorship
  • 2. Burning books as propaganda
  • 3. The personal use of censorship in "the wincy age"
  • 4. Censorship and the confrontation between prerogative and privilege
  • 5. The press and foreign policy, 1619-1624: "all eies are directed upon Bohemia"
  • 6. Ecclesiastical faction, censorship, and the rhetoric of silence.