Dangerous Talk: Scandalous, Seditious, and Treasonable Speech in Pre-Modern England by David Cressy

Dangerous Talk: Scandalous, Seditious, and Treasonable Speech in Pre-Modern England

David Cressy

374 pages first pub 2010 (view editions)

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Dangerous Talk examines the "lewd, ungracious, detestable, opprobrious, and rebellious-sounding" speech of ordinary men and women who spoke scornfully of kings and queens. Eavesdropping on lost conversations, it reveals the expressions that got pe...

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