Category: Ages, era, period

What was the licensing system ?

A. All royalties from the sale of books went to the crown (hence the name).
B. Poets were required to have a university diploma (the original poetic license).
C. All books had to be dedicated to a noble or royal patron.
D. All books had to be submitted for official approval before publication.

What factors contributed to the increased popularity of nonfiction prose ?

A. a new market position for nonfiction writing and an exalted sense of the didactic function of the writer
B. a Puritanical distrust of fictions and a thirst for trivia
C. the forbiddingly high cost of threevolume novels and the difficulty of finding poetry in bookshops outside of London
D. the deconstruction of the truth-fiction dichotomy and an accompanying relativistic sense that every opinion was of equal value