Press Censorship in Jacobean England.(Book Review)

Canadian Journal of History | April 1, 2003| | Copyright

by Cyndia Susan Clegg. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001. ix, 286 pp. $59.95 U.S. (cloth).

Press censorship is an issue of perennial interest for early modern scholars, and has been the focal point for profound historiographical and ideological debates relating to the power of the state, the degree of division within society, and the causes of civil wars. Cyndia Clegg, having written on Elizabethan press censorship, has now turned her attention to the reign of James I, and offers a subtle reading of both well-known and relatively obscure episodes, rejecting ...

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