Treason by Words : : Literature, Law, and Rebellion in Shakespeare's England /

Treason by Words : : Literature, Law, and Rebellion in Shakespeare's England / / Rebecca Lemon.

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Under the Tudor monarchy, English law expanded to include the category of "treason by words." Rebecca Lemon investigates this remarkable phrase both as a legal charge and as a cultural event. English citizens, she shows, expressed competing notions of treason in opposition to the growing a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Lemon, Rebecca,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 7 halftones, 1 chart/graph
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • CHAPTER ONE. Sovereignty, Treason Law, and the Political Imagination in Early Modern England
  • CHAPTER TWO. The Treason of Hayward's Henry IV
  • CHAPTER THREE. Shakespeare's Anatomy of Resistance in Richard II
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Scaffolds of Treason in Shakespeare's Macbeth
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Donne's Pseudo-Martyr and Post-Gunpowder Plot Law
  • CHAPTER SIX. Treason and Emergency Power in Jonson's Catiline
  • Afterword
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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