[PDF.72qe] Treason by Words: Literature, Law, and Rebellion in Shakespeare's England

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

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 | #7866157 in Books |  Cornell University Press |  2006-06-01 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.16 x.85 x6.48l,1.03 | File type: PDF | 256 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| New insights from Elizabethan texts into our own legal and political situation.|By Doctor Who|I found this book as a suggested book when looking for other texts to consider using in a law and literature class, or to give me more background on several plays by Shakespeare I have used in that class previously. This book is closely written and well documented, and reflects an hist| |"It may be that, as the republican theorists of Ancient Rome and Early Modern England understood, tyranny does not consist in an overly rigid enforcement of the law, but on the replacement of the objective laws of logic by arbitrary laws such as those of the m

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 E...

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