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

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

Rebecca Lemon

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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 notion...

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