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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lemon, Rebecca, 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2006.
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.