Treason by Words
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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 participation of texts by John Donne, Ben Jonson, and William Shakespeare in the legal and political controversies...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0801474493
ISBN13:9780801474491
Release Date:December 2007
Publisher:Cornell University Press
Length:256 Pages
Weight:0.75 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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