LEADER 04620nam 2200781Ia 450 001 9910462628503321 005 20211217013130.0 010 $a0-8122-0427-1 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812204278 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418345 035 $a(EBL)3442227 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000981049 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11618475 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000981049 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10968982 035 $a(PQKB)11619866 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442227 035 $a(OCoLC)859161675 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse29106 035 $a(DE-B1597)449732 035 $a(OCoLC)979578139 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812204278 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442227 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748807 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418345 100 $a20010703d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aImaginary betrayals$b[electronic resource] $esubjectivity and the discourses of treason in early Modern England /$fKaren Cunningham 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$d2002 215 $a1 online resource (224 p.) 225 0 $aThe Middle Ages series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8122-3640-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$t1. "Fugitive Forms": Imagining the Realm --$t2. Female Fidelities on Trial --$t3. Masculinity, Aflliation, and Rootlessness --$t4. Secrecy and the Epistolary Self --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tWorks Cited --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aIn 1352 King Edward III had expanded the legal definition of treason to include the act of imagining the death of the king, opening up the category of "constructive" treason, in which even a subject's thoughts might become the basis for prosecution. By the sixteenth century, treason was perceived as an increasingly serious threat and policed with a new urgency. Referring to the extensive early modern literature on the subject of treason, Imaginary Betrayals reveals how and to what extent ideas of proof and grounds for conviction were subject to prosecutorial construction during the Tudor period. Karen Cunningham looks at contemporary records of three prominent cases in order to demonstrate the degree to which the imagination was used to prove treason: the 1542 attainder of Katherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII, charged with having had sexual relations with two men before her marriage; the 1586 case of Anthony Babington and twelve confederates, accused of plotting with the Spanish to invade England and assassinate Elizabeth; and the prosecution in the same year of Mary, Queen of Scots, indicted for conspiring with Babington to engineer her own accession to the throne. Linking the inventiveness of the accusations and decisions in these cases to the production of contemporary playtexts by Udall, Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Kyd, Imaginary Betrayals demonstrates how the emerging, flexible discourses of treason participate in defining both individual subjectivity and the legitimate Tudor state. Concerned with competing representations of self and nationhood, Imaginary Betrayals explores the implications of legal and literary representations in which female sexuality, male friendship, or private letters are converted into the signs of treacherous imaginations. 606 $aSex role in literature 606 $aEnglish drama$yEarly modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLaw in literature 606 $aBetrayal in literature 606 $aTreason in literature 606 $aTrials (Treason)$zEngland$xHistory$y16th century 606 $aEnglish drama$y17th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSubjectivity in literature 606 $aLaw and literature$xHistory$y16th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSex role in literature. 615 0$aEnglish drama$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLaw in literature. 615 0$aBetrayal in literature. 615 0$aTreason in literature. 615 0$aTrials (Treason)$xHistory 615 0$aEnglish drama$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSubjectivity in literature. 615 0$aLaw and literature$xHistory 676 $a822/.309358 700 $aCunningham$b Karen$01046331 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462628503321 996 $aImaginary betrayals$92473157 997 $aUNINA