What was media in the Elizabethan era?
The Elizabethan age produced, in addition to the work of the major poets and playwrights, an enormous amount of books of all kinds – technical treatises, textbooks, satire, works of travel, history, and topography, translations from the classics, books on religious, political and philosophical subjects, novels, romances, and a vast quantity of pamphlets, tracts and broadsheets, on matters of topical interest. The Stationers company, incorporated in 1557, controlled the printing and publishing trades which, like so many other things, were centred in London, and severe penalties were enforced against those who imported books from abroad or operated secret or unlicensed presses. Books, like plays, were subject to censorship, designed to prevent the dissemination of subversive material, especially of a religious nature, and ‘no manner of person’ was allowed to print without a license in writing from Her Majesty, by six members of the Privy Council, by the Archbishop of Canterbury and York,
