Imaginary Betrayals: Subjectivity and the Discourses of Treason in Early Modern EnglandUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 2013 M05 29 - 224 páginas In 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. |
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... story. The discursive energies of the cultural story, however, are my interest. In discourses of treason, elusive, troublesome conceptions of gender, afiiliation, and homeland were repeatedly argued. And although prosecutors attempted ...
... story by positioning it as a supplement to an individual writer's interests. My own argument is not fundamentally author-driven, although it may be in any specific instance. I assume that dramatists and legal practitioners respond to ...
... stories led up to those extreme conclusions? 9 What narratives were necessary to justify the ways of monarchs to men? One of my most surprising discoveries is the extent to which an early modern treason trial is a permeable form, open ...
... story. Parker writes: The obsessively staged desire to see or spy out secrets, or in the absence of the directly ... stories told in trials, the traitor is a figure accused of seeking to supplant one ideal of a homeland with another. He ...
... story, as a social and epistemological anchor};0 For every apparently “self—evident” case, such as Essex's riding through the streets of London toward the queen in 1601 with drawn sword, there were many in which the incident and its ...
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Imagining the Realm | 23 |
2 Female Fidelities on Trial | 40 |
3 Masculinity Affiliation and Rootlessness | 77 |
4 Secrecy and the Epistolary Self | 110 |
Conclusion | 141 |
Notes | 145 |
Works Cited | 187 |
Index | 203 |
Acknowledgments | 215 |
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