The theatre of death : rituals of justice from the English civil wars to the Restoration / P.J. Klemp.

Av: Språk: Engelska Utgivning: Newark : University of Delaware Press, 2016Beskrivning: xix, 353 s. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781611496284
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Innehåll:
Introduction: Capital Punishment in Early Modern England -- 1. "I have been bred upon the Theater of death, and have learned that part": The Execution Ritual during the English Revolution -- 2. The Earl of Strafford's Trial and Scaffold Speech: Texts and Contexts -- 3. The Earl of Strafford's Trial and Scaffold Speech: Textual Aftermaths -- 4. Archbishop William Laud in the Theatre of Execution -- 5. Civil War Politics and the Texts of Archbishop William Laud's Execution Sermon and Prayers -- 6. Genre Criticism and the Animadversions upon Archbishop William Laud's Execution Sermon and Prayers -- 7. Self-Referential Defense Strategies in King Charles l's Treason Trial -- 8. The Earl of Strafford, Archbishop Laud, and King Charles I's Deflation of Genre in His Speech Made upon the Scaffold -- 9. "The Last Actors in This Bloody Tragedy": The Regicides in the Theatre of Death.
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Innehåller index samt bibliografiska referenser (s.331-342)

Introduction: Capital Punishment in Early Modern England -- 1. "I have been bred upon the Theater of death, and have learned that part": The Execution Ritual during the English Revolution -- 2. The Earl of Strafford's Trial and Scaffold Speech: Texts and Contexts -- 3. The Earl of Strafford's Trial and Scaffold Speech: Textual Aftermaths -- 4. Archbishop William Laud in the Theatre of Execution -- 5. Civil War Politics and the Texts of Archbishop William Laud's Execution Sermon and Prayers -- 6. Genre Criticism and the Animadversions upon Archbishop William Laud's Execution Sermon and Prayers -- 7. Self-Referential Defense Strategies in King Charles l's Treason Trial -- 8. The Earl of Strafford, Archbishop Laud, and King Charles I's Deflation of Genre in His Speech Made upon the Scaffold -- 9. "The Last Actors in This Bloody Tragedy": The Regicides in the Theatre of Death.

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