Treason by words : literature, law, and rebellion in Shakespeare's England / Rebecca Lemon.
Treason by words : literature, law, and rebellion in Shakespeare's England / Rebecca Lemon.
Treason by words : literature, law, and rebellion in Shakespeare's England / Rebecca Lemon.
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Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2006.
Date
2006.
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N822.30935/6
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English
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ix, 234 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
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 pow...
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Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2006.
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New York (State)
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2006.
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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 absolutism of the monarchy. Lemon explores the complex parti...
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Treason by words : literature, law, and rebellion in Shakespeare's England / Rebecca Lemon.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-222) and index.
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N822.30935/6
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74VK7k2BxDyl
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9780801444289 (cloth : alk. paper)
0801444284 (cloth : alk. paper)
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822.309358
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991022901679702626
