Treason by Words: Literature, Law, and Rebellion in Shakespeare's England

by Rebecca Lemon

Book Overview

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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801444284
• ISBN13: 9780801444289
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.2"