Treason By Words

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

Item Length: 9in

Item Height: 0.7in

Item Width: 6in

Author: Rebecca Lemon

Format: Perfect

Language: English

Topic: Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), Drama, Shakespeare, Europe / Great Britain / Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603), General, Legal History, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Publication Year: 2007

Genre: Law, Literary Criticism, History

Item Weight: 16 Oz

Number of Pages: 256 Pages