Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Sovereignty, Treason Law, and the Political Imagination in Early Modern England -- The Treason of Hayward's Henry IV -- Shakespeare's Anatomy of Resistance in Richard II -- Scaffolds of Treason in Shakespeare's Macbeth -- Donne's Pseudo-Martyr and Post-Gunpowder Plot Law -- Treason and Emergency Power in Jonson's Catiline -- Afterword -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.