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!) Censorship Flashcards

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The monopoly of the stationers company was granted incrementally by statute between which dates?

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1515-1534

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In which year did a Royal Charter give the Stationers Company powers of search and seizure?

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1557

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Which two episcopal positions had authority within the Court of High Commission?

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Archbishop of Canterbury, Bishop of London

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In which year did the High Commission take on responsibility for pre-publication censorship?

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1559

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In which year did a Star Chamber edict expand the powers of the High Commission?

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1586

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In which year did John WhitgiftandRichard Bancroft ban English history plays and ‘bitinge satyres’?

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1599

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What was prohibited by the Bishops Ban (1599)?

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English history plays and ‘bitinge satyres’

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How many published works went unregistered between 1550 and 1640?

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35%

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Between which years were 35% of published works unregistered?

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1550-1640

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During Elizabeth’s reign (1558-1603) the proportion of published works registered never rose above what level?

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50%

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During which monarch’s reign did the proportion of publications registered never rise above 50%

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Elizabeth I (1558-1603)

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Which play was forced by Henry Herbert, Master of the Revels, to change setting from 16th century Iberia to Ancient Carthage?

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Philip Massinger, Believe as you List (1631)

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Which play, brutally satirising the Anglo-Spanish war was approved with no complaints (even as similar plays were being censored)?

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Thomas Heywood, Fair Maid of the West (1631)

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Which collaborative play was censored at the insistence of Edmund Tilney, Master of the Revels, for its portrayal of 1517 xenophobic riots?

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Anthony Munday&Henry Chettle, Sir Thomas More (c.1593)

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In which play were images of popular rebellion approved without complaint (even as other plays had theirs censored)?

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George Peele(?), Life and Death of Jack Straw (1593)

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Which play caused the Privy Council to close the theatres over Summer 1597?

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Ben Jonson & Thomas Nashe, Isle of Dogs (1597)

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What happened following the closure of theatres in Summer 1597?

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theatres soon reopened, Lord Admiral’s Company given Privy Council privileges six months later (one of two companies)

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Which theatre company provoked the closure of theatres over Summer 1597?

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Lord Admiral’s Men

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Which theatre company performed Richard II for Essex the night before his uprising (8 Feb 1601)?

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Lord Chamberlain’s Men

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What happened to the Lord Chamberlain’s Men following the Essex rebellion (8 Feb 1601)?

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Augustine Phillips is questioned (provides a purely economic excuse), performing for the Queen by 24 Feb (night before Essex’s execution)

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Which play led to its author being questioned over supposed similarities with the Essex rebellion?

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Samuel David, Philotas (1605)

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What unconvincing excuse did Samuel David provide for similarities between his play Philotas (1605) and the Essex rebellion (1601)?

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That he had written the play before the rebellion

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Why did Shakespeare change the name of John Oldcastle to John Falstaff in Henry IV pt 1 (c.1597)?

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John Oldcastle was the ancestor of William Brooke (the new Lord Chamberlain)

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In which play did Shakespeare change the name of a character to avoid impuning the ancestor of William Brooke, the new Lord Chamberlain?

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Henry IV pt.1 (c.1597); John Oldcastle changed to John Falstaff

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Which play by Ben Jonson caused the Earl of Northampton (himself a Catholic) to engineer his arrest (in 1604) on charges of ‘popery and treason’?

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Sejanus (1603)

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Who engineered the arrest of Ben Jonson in 1604, believing that he was being satirised in Sejanus (1603)?

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Earl of Northampton

27
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Which play by Ben Jonson led Sir James Murray (Scottish Courtier of James I) to engineer his arrest (Aug 1605-Nov 1605)?

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Eastward Ho! (1605)

28
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Which Scottish Courtier engineered Ben Jonson’s arrest (Aug 1605-Nov 1605) after being satirised in Eastward Ho! (1605)?

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Sir James Murray

29
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Which anti-Spanish play was shut down after complaints from the Count of Gondomar?

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Thomas Middleton, A Game at Chess (1624)

30
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Who had his right hand amputated and was imprisoned for 18 months after publishing The Gaping Gulf (1579)?

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John Stubbs

31
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What did the authorities take exception to in John Stubbs, The Gaping Gulf (1579)?

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description of proposed marriage to Francis Duke of Anjou as ‘an immoral union… forbidden in the law’

32
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Which three authors had their ears amputated in 1637 for writing against William Laud’s religious policy?

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Henry Burton, John Bastwick, William Prynne

33
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‘whose tongue was…

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for his trespasse vyle/Nayld to a post’ (V.ix.26)

34
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Which sonnet references the punishment of Henry Burton, John Bastwick and William Prynne (1637) with the line ‘baulk your ears’?

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John Milton, On the New Forcers of Conscience (1646)

35
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Which work decried ‘word-peckers, paper-rats [and] book scorpions’?

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Andrew Marvell, To Richard Lovelace (1649)

36
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Andrew Marvell, To Richard Lovelace (1649) decried censors as what?

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‘word-peckers, paper-rats [and] book scorpions’

37
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Which drama, a thinly veiled satire of European geo-politics, asked ‘What Pen dares be so bold in this strict age?’ in its prologue?

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Wentworth Smith, The Hector of Germany (1613)

38
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Wentworth Smith, The Hector of Germany (1613) asked what in its prologue?

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‘What Pen dares be so bold in this strict age?’

39
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Which character in Ben Jonson, Poetaster (1601) is used to mock the censor?

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Asinius Lupus, the Tribune

40
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In which poem did Jonson consider himself ‘safe from the wolf’s black jaw’?

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Ben Jonson, Ode to Himself (1629)

41
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Ben Jonson, Ode to Himself (1629) claimed that Jonson was what?

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‘safe from the wolf’s black jaw’

42
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What remedy did John Milton, Aeropagitica (1644) proscribe for books that were ‘mischievous and libellous’?

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‘the fire and the executioner’

43
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John Milton, Aeropagitica (1644) proscribed ‘the fire and the executioner’ to remedy what?

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books that were ‘mischevious and libellous’

44
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What did William Walwyn, The Compassionate Samaritan (1644) argue was wrong about censorship?

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that it was being used on ‘conscientious well minded people’

45
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Which work, by William Prynne, gave a full throated endorsement of the supression of religious texts by the civil magistrate?

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William Prynne, The Sword of Christian Magistracy (1653)

46
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Why did Shakespeare (Hand D) edit Anthony Munday&Henry Chettle, Sir Thomas More (c.1593)?

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Alter the play to meet the requirements of Edmund Tilney, Master of the Revels

47
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Which Parliamentary newsbook was censored by John Milton from 1649 onward?

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Mercurius Politicus

48
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Which work by Philip Sidney made essentially the same arguments as John Stubbs?

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Philip Sidney, A Letter to Queen Elizabeth (1580)

49
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Why did Philip Sidney not get punished, like John Stubbs, for writing A Letter to Queen Elizabeth (1580)?

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The letter was not published

50
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Which two authors wrote about tyranny under Henry VIII but never published any work in their lifetimes?

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Earl of Surrey, Thomas Wyatt

51
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What was interesting about the trials of Thomas Wyatt and the Earl of Surrey for treason (both executed)?

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Their anti-tyrannical literary works were never used as evidence

52
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In which Skelton poem does an every man character claim the people were ‘yoke[d]/With sommons and citacyons’ by the bishops?

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John Skelton, Collyn Cloute (1521)

53
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What does the titular character in John Skelton, Collyn Clout (1521) claim is happening to the people?

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‘yoke[d]/With sommons and citacyons’ by the bishops

54
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Which Shakespeare plays continued to portray politics on stage, despite the Bishops Ban (1599) outlawing history plays?

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Julius Caesar (1599), Coriolanus (1608)

55
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In which year did William Cecil commission anti-Spanish plays to make a point to the Spanish ambassador?

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1559

56
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Which masque urged Robert Cecil to suceed to his fathers political influence?

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Philip Sidney, The Lady of May (1593)

57
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When was the second edition of Ben Jonson, Sejanus published?

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1605

58
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What changes did Ben Jonson make to Sejanus (1603) (for which he’d been prosecuted) for the second edition in 1605?

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left the politically sensitive bits in, message ‘To the Reader’ apologising for ‘absences of [classical] forms’ and anxious about critics who ‘bring all wit to the rack’

59
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What happens to the Poet Cinna in William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (1599)?

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killed by an uninformed multitude (rather than a censorious authority)

60
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What did Shakespeare express anxiety about in the prologue of Troilius and Cressida (c.1602)?

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the ‘smoaky breath of the multitude’

61
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In the First Quarto (1608) of William Shakespeare’s King Lear, the fools speech on the dangers of a divided kingdom was a reference to what?

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James I’s programme for political union between Scotland and England

62
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What did William Shakespeare remove from King Lear between the First Quarto (1608) and the Folio (1623)?

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the fool’s speech on the dangers of a divided kingdom

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Why did Shakespeare remove the fool’s speech on the dangers of a divided kingdom between the First Quarto of King Lear (1608) and the Folio edition (1623)?

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to keep the play topical (political union was no longer a present issue)

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