The theatre of death : rituals of justice from the English civil wars to the Restoration /

This book discusses rituals of justice-such as public executions, printed responses to the Archbishop of Canterbury's execution speech, and King Charles I's treason trial-in early modern England. Focusing on the ways in which genres shape these events' multiple voices, Paul Klemp anal...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Klemp, P. J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2016]
Temas:
1600-1714
Public executions > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Executions and executioners > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Exécutions publiques > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 17e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Executions and executioners.
Public executions.
Great Britain > History > Stuarts, 1603-1714.
Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 1603-1714 (Stuarts)
Great Britain.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "I have been bred upon the Theatre of death, and have learned that part": the execution ritual during the English Revolution
  • The Earl of Strafford's trial and scaffold speech: texts and contexts
  • The Earl of Strafford's trial and scaffold speech: textual aftermaths
  • Archbishop William Laud in the theatre of execution
  • Civil war politics and the texts of Archbishop William Laud's execution sermon and prayers
  • Genre criticism and the animadversions upon Archbishop William Laud's execution sermon and prayers
  • Self-referential defense strategies in King Charles I's treason trial
  • The Earl of Strafford, Archbishop Laud, and King Charles I's deflation of genre in His Speech Made upon the Scaffold
  • "The last actors in this bloody tragedy": the regicides in the theatre of death.

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