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Preface List of Abbreviations Notes on the Contributors Chronology Introduction: The Politics of Early Modern Censorship; A.Hadfield PART ONE: THEATRICAL CENSORSHIP Theatrical Censorship and Negotiation; J.Clare Puritan Tribulation and the Protestant History Play; S.Longstaffe Elizabethan Protest, Disorder, and 'Precautionary' Playing Restraints: Social Control Masquerading as Plague Control; B.Freedman The Censorship of A Gate at Chess ; R.Dutton PART TWO: RELIGIOUS CENSORSHIP Right Puissance and Terrible Priests: The Role of the Anglican Church in Elizabethan State Censorship; R.McCabe What is a Catholic Poem?: Explicitness and Censorship in Tudor and Stuart Religious Verse; A.Shell John Foxe and the Godly Commonwealth, 1563-1641; D.Loades Archbishop Laud and the Licensing of Books for the Press; A.Hunt PART THREE: POLITICAL CENSORSHIP Censoring Ireland in Early Modern England; A.Hadfield Burning Books as Propaganda in Jacobean England; C.Clegg The Censorship of Andrew Marvell; A.Patterson AFTERWORD Doing the Queen: Gender, Sexuality, and the Censorship of Elizabeth's I's Royal Image from Renaissance Portraiture to Twentieth-Century Mass Media; R.Burt Index