Press Censorship in Jacobean England

Acknowledgments List of abbreviations 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, 1619-24: 'all eies are directed upon Bohemia' 6. Ecclesiastical faction, censorship and the rhetoric of silence Afterword Notes Bibliography Index.