Treason by words
literature, law, and rebellion in Shakespeare's England
by Rebecca Lemon
"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 participation of texts by John Donne, Ben Jonson, and William Shakespeare in the legal and political controversies marking the Earl of Essex's 1601 rebellion and the 1605 Gunpowder Plot." "Lemon suggests that the articulation of diverse ideas about treason within literary and polemical texts produced increasingly fractured conceptions of the crime of treason itself."--Jacket.
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English drama, Gunpowder Plot, 1605, History, History and criticism, Literature and state, Treason in literature, English drama, history and criticism, early modern and elizabethan, 1500-1600, English drama, history and criticism, 17th century, Great britain, history, elizabeth, 1558-1603Places
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Treason by words: literature, law, and rebellion in Shakespeare's England
2006, Cornell University Press
in English
0801444284 9780801444289
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