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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... truth about that inscrutable figure. Nicholas Udall, William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and Thomas Kyd, to name only a few, employ elements of contempo— rary treason discourses to reinterpret categories of national identity. As ...
... truth as it was manifest in the character and words of the accused. Until recently, literary scholars have tended to enclose the issue of the relations between plays and trials within biographies of authors. We have, for example ...
... truth-tellers specifically in the context of instructing young lawyers how best to craft arguments: The saiynge of Poets and all their fables are not to be forgotten, for by them we may talke at large, and winne men by perswasion, if ...
... truth and plain-speaking were identical. According to Martin Luther, truth seized people's minds: “the mind is so laid hold of by the truth itself, that, by virtue of that truth, it is able to reach certainty in any judgment. . . . The ...
... truth extended outside the church to political writing, in which claims to plainness are claims to truth, to its selfauthenticating nature (people recognize it as familiar) and to its implicit ap— peal to a higher authority. In The ...
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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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