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Author Cressy, David.

Title Dangerous talk : scandalous, seditious, and treasonable speech in pre-modern England / by David Cressy.

Publication Info. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.

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 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  364.13109 CRESSY    Check Shelf
Description xiii, 374 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Sins of the tongue -- Abusive words -- Elizabethan voices -- Words against King James -- The demeaning of Charles I: Hugh Pyne's dangerous words -- Dangerous words, 1625-1642 -- Revolutionary seditions -- Charles II: the veriest rogue that ever reigned -- The last of the Stuarts -- Dangerous speech from Hanoverian to modern England -- Dangerous talk in dangerous times.
Subject Sedition -- England -- History -- 16th century.
Sedition -- England -- History -- 17th century.
Lese majesty -- England -- History -- 16th century.
Lese majesty -- England -- History -- 17th century.
ISBN 9780199564804 hardback
0199564809 hardback
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