Contingencies of Literary Censorship: Anglo-Spanish Diplomacy and Amadís de Gaula in January 1569
Contingencies of Literary Censorship: Anglo-Spanish Diplomacy and Amadís de Gaula in January 1569
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文学审查的突发事件：1569 年 1 月的英西外交和阿马迪斯·德高拉
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2015
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Timothy D. Crowley
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Timothy D. Crowley
本文分析了在1568-69年冬季英西关系发生转变期间，两封涉及Amadís de Gaula典故的信件的注释辩论。它认为，西班牙大使guguau de Spes的Amadís暗示比人们认识到的更微妙，更具有政治意义，英国对他的文本的谴责依赖于阅读它的物质环境。这一分析揭示了英国枢密院如何将Amadís的典故解读为对伊丽莎白一世的间接批评和对她的国务卿威廉·塞西尔的诽谤。作为一场关于主题寓言的不同寻常的有充分证据的解释性辩论，这一事件有助于解释现代早期英国文学审查制度的存在和程序如何取决于政治、修辞和生产和接受的物质环境，这些环境与感知到的作者意图有关。
This essay analyzes a debate over the exegesis of two letters involving an allu-sion to Amadís de Gaula , amid the shift in Anglo-Spanish relations occurring in the winter of 1568–69. It argues that the Spanish ambassador Guerau de Spes’s Amadís allusion was more subtle and politically significant than has been recognized, and that the English censure of his text relied on the material circumstances in which it was read. This analysis sheds new light on how the English Privy Council read the Amadís allusion as both an oblique criticism of Elizabeth I and a libel against her secretary of state, William Cecil. As an unusually well-documented interpretive debate over topical allegory, this incident helps explain how both the existence and the procedure of literary censorship in early modern England remained contingent upon political, rhe-torical, and material circumstances of production and reception in relation to perceived authorial intention.