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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 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.
Gunpowder Plot, 1605. --- Literature and state --- Treason in literature. --- English drama --- State and literature --- Authors and patrons --- Cultural policy --- History --- History and criticism. --- Great Britain
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Neo-Latin literature --- History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- Society of Jesus --- Buskruitverraad, 1605 in literatuur --- Complot des Poudres, 1605 en littérature --- Gunpowder Plot, 1605 in literature --- Gunpowder Plot, 1605 --- Epic poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern) --- Poésie épique latine médiévale et moderne --- Poetry. --- Translations into English. --- History and criticism. --- Traductions anglaises --- Great Britain --- Grande-Bretagne --- History --- Historiography --- Histoire --- Historiographie --- -Gunpowder Plot, 1605 --- -Epic poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern) --- -Academic collection --- 870.9004 --- Latin epic poetry, Medieval and modern --- Latin poetry, Medieval and modern --- Translations into English --- Poetry --- History and criticism --- Literature Latin 1350 --- -Great Britain --- -Historiography. --- Poésie épique latine médiévale et moderne --- Academic collection --- Historiography. --- Latin poetry [Medieval and modern ] --- Fletcher, Phineas --- Gunpowder Plot, 1605 - Poetry. --- Epic poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern) - Translations into English. --- Epic poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern) - History and criticism. --- Fletcher (phineas)
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