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On 1 June 1599, John Whitgift (the Archbishop of Canterbury) and Richard Bancroft (the Bishop of London) signed their names on an order to ban a selection of literary works. This act of censorship has become known among scholars as the "Bishops' Ban" and is one of only four such acts during the reign of Elizabeth I. Debora Shuger has called the order "the most sweeping and stringent instance of early modern censorship." 〔 Debora Shuger, "Civility and Censorship in Early Modern England," in ''Censorship and Silencing: Practices of Cultural Regulation'', ed. Robert C. Post (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1998), 89. 〕 == Censored books == This "Bishops' Ban" has been documented in the surviving records of the Stationers' Company and can be observed in Edward Arber's transcription. 〔 Edward Arber, ed., ''A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers, 1554-1640,'' 5 vols (London: 1875-1894), III.677-78. 〕 It ordered the censorship of satires and epigrams, histories and dramatic works published without the approval of the Privy Council, and all the works by Thomas Nashe and Gabriel Harvey. Additionally, nine specific books were singled out for censorship: * Joseph Hall, ''Vergidemiarum''. 2 Vols. (1597-1598). * John Marston, ''The Metamorphosis of Pigmalions Image and Certaine Satyres'' (1598) * John Marston, ''The Scourge of Villanie'' (1598) * Edward Guilpin, ''Skialetheia. or, A shadowe of Truth'' (1598) * Thomas Middleton, ''Microcynicon: Six Snarling Satires'' (1599) * T. Cutwode (pseud.), ''Caltha Poetarum: Or The Bumble Bee'' (1599) * John Davies, ''Epigrammes and Elegies'' (1599) * Ercole and Torquato Tasso, ''Of Mariage and Wiving'', trans. Robert Tofte (1599) * Anonymous, ''The xv ioyes of marriage'' The last work may be a translation from a French original, and is probably lost (although we know it was probably printed by Adam Islip, who was fined for printing the book on 5 February 1599). 〔 Arber, ''Transcript'', II.829. 〕 All the other books survive. Three days later, on 4 June, seven of the above titles were burned in Stationers' Hall. The two books that were "stai()d" (i.e. not burned) were Hall's ''Vergidemiarum'' and ''Caltha Poetarum.'' The following year, poet John Weever published ''Faunus and Melliflora'', which contains references to Joseph Hall, John Marston, and the Bishops' Ban. Weever is also the probable author of an anonymous pamphlet in 1601 entitled ''The Whippinge of the Satyre'', which vindicates the decision of the bishops and attacks Edward Guilpin, John Marston, and Ben Jonson. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bishops' Ban of 1599」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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