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Format: Online-Ressource (256 p)

ISBN: 9780801444289

Content: Lemon investigates the remarkable phrase, "treason by words," both as a legal charge and as a cultural event under the Tudor monarchy.

Content: Cover -- TREASON BY WORDS -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER ONE Sovereignty, Treason Law, and the Political Imagination in Early Modern England -- CHAPTER TWO The Treason of Hayward's Henry IV -- CHAPTER THREE Shakespeare's Anatomy of Resistance in Richard II -- CHAPTER FOUR Scaffolds of Treason in Shakespeare's Macbeth -- CHAPTER FIVE Donne's Pseudo-Martyr and Post-Gunpowder Plot Law -- CHAPTER SIX Treason and Emergency Power in Jonson's Catiline -- Afterword -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

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Additional Edition: ISBN 9780801462269

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780801444289

Additional Edition: Print version Treason by Words : Literature, Law, and Rebellion in Shakespheres England

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books

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Format: 1 online resource : , 7 halftones, 1 chart/graph

ISBN: 9780801462269

Content: 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. Further, literary texts, in representing issues familiar from political polemic, helped to foster more free, less ideologically rigid, responses to the crisis of treason. As a result, such works of imagination bolstered an emerging discourse on subjects' rights. Treason by Words offers an original theory of the role of dissent and rebellion during a period of burgeoning sovereign power.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , CHAPTER ONE. Sovereignty, Treason Law, and the Political Imagination in Early Modern England -- , CHAPTER TWO. The Treason of Hayward's Henry IV -- , CHAPTER THREE. Shakespeare's Anatomy of Resistance in Richard II -- , CHAPTER FOUR. Scaffolds of Treason in Shakespeare's Macbeth -- , CHAPTER FIVE. Donne's Pseudo-Martyr and Post-Gunpowder Plot Law -- , CHAPTER SIX. Treason and Emergency Power in Jonson's Catiline -- , Afterword -- , Notes -- , Works Cited -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.7591/9780801462269

URL: https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801462269

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Format: 1 online resource (246 p.)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 0-8014-6226-6

Content: 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. Further, literary texts, in representing issues familiar from political polemic, helped to foster more free, less ideologically rigid, responses to the crisis of treason. As a result, such works of imagination bolstered an emerging discourse on subjects' rights. Treason by Words offers an original theory of the role of dissent and rebellion during a period of burgeoning sovereign power.

Note: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph , Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , CHAPTER ONE. Sovereignty, Treason Law, and the Political Imagination in Early Modern England -- , CHAPTER TWO. The Treason of Hayward's Henry IV -- , CHAPTER THREE. Shakespeare's Anatomy of Resistance in Richard II -- , CHAPTER FOUR. Scaffolds of Treason in Shakespeare's Macbeth -- , CHAPTER FIVE. Donne's Pseudo-Martyr and Post-Gunpowder Plot Law -- , CHAPTER SIX. Treason and Emergency Power in Jonson's Catiline -- , Afterword -- , Notes -- , Works Cited -- , Index , Issued also in print. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8014-4428-4

Language: English

DOI: 10.7591/9780801462269