LEADER 03980nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910457275903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-6226-6 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801462269 035 $a(CKB)2550000000085724 035 $a(OCoLC)778434496 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10524485 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000600146 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11428222 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000600146 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10600078 035 $a(PQKB)10616024 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138291 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28845 035 $a(DE-B1597)515626 035 $a(OCoLC)1091697210 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801462269 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138291 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10524485 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000085724 100 $a20051107d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTreason by words$b[electronic resource] $eliterature, law, and rebellion in Shakespeare's England /$fRebecca Lemon 210 $aIthaca, N.Y. $cCornell University Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (246 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8014-4428-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tCHAPTER ONE. Sovereignty, Treason Law, and the Political Imagination in Early Modern England -- $tCHAPTER TWO. The Treason of Hayward's Henry IV -- $tCHAPTER THREE. Shakespeare's Anatomy of Resistance in Richard II -- $tCHAPTER FOUR. Scaffolds of Treason in Shakespeare's Macbeth -- $tCHAPTER FIVE. Donne's Pseudo-Martyr and Post-Gunpowder Plot Law -- $tCHAPTER SIX. Treason and Emergency Power in Jonson's Catiline -- $tAfterword -- $tNotes -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex 330 $aUnder 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. 606 $aEnglish drama$yEarly modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish drama$y17th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aTreason in literature 606 $aLiterature and state$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y16th century 606 $aLiterature and state$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aGunpowder Plot, 1605 607 $aGreat Britain$xHistory$yElizabeth, 1558-1603 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish drama$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish drama$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aTreason in literature. 615 0$aLiterature and state$xHistory 615 0$aLiterature and state$xHistory 615 0$aGunpowder Plot, 1605. 676 $a822/.309358 700 $aLemon$b Rebecca$f1968-$01038753 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457275903321 996 $aTreason by words$92460530 997 $aUNINA