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

Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010

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Description xiii, 374 pages ; 24 cm 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Sedition -- England -- History -- 16th century. Sedition -- England -- History -- 17th century. Lese majesty -- England -- History -- 16th century. Lese majesty -- England -- History -- 17th century. LC no. 2009928984 ISBN 9780199564804 hardback 0199564809 hardback

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