Treason by Words : Literature, Law, and Rebellion in Shakespeare's England /
"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 gro...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
2006.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Sovereignty, treason law, and the political imagination in early modern England
- The treason of Hayward's Henry IV
- Shakespeare's anatomy of resistance in Richard II
- Scaffolds of treason in Shakespeare's Macbeth
- Donne's Pseudo-martyr and post Gunpowder Plot law
- Treason and emergency power in Jonson's Catiline.