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Performing Libel in the Provinces
Performing Libel in the Provinces provides the first book-length study of the dramatic traditions and literary features of private libel occurring in the provinces of Jacobean England. The early modern phenomenon of private libel saw communal scandals creatively couched in verses, symbols, or mock-ceremonies and read, sung, posted, and published in prominent local places and spaces across the English provinces. By the early modern period, libelling a private individual had been criminalized and was being tried at the court of Star Chamber, alongside cases relating to the slander of monarchy and government. This remarkable conflation and criminalization of private libel brought the ruination ...
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More Micheners in America
John Michener (b.1656) was the son of Robert and Elizabeth Michener of Ash, Surrey, England. He became a Quaker, married Sarah Moore in 1686, and immigrated to Philadelphia before 1687. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Montana, Missouri, Arizona, California, Washington, Kansas, Tennessee, Nebraska, Wyoming, Alaska, New Jersey, Delaware, Florida, Colorado, Oregon, Idaho and elsewhere.
