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The Theatre of Death - Rituals of Justice from the English Civil Wars to the Restoration (Paperback)
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The Theatre of Death - Rituals of Justice from the English Civil Wars to the Restoration (Paperback)
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This book discusses some 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, I analyze the rituals' genres and the
diverse perspectives from which we must understand them. The
execution ritual, like such cultural forms as plays and films, is a
collaborative production that can be understood only, and only
incompletely, by being alert to the presence of its many
participants and their contributions. Each of these participants
brings a voice to the execution ritual, whether it is the judge and
jury or the victim, executioner, sheriff and other authorities,
spiritual counselors, printer, or spectators and readers. And each
has at least one role to play. No matter how powerful some
institutions and individuals may appear, none has a monopoly over
authority and how the events take shape on and beyond the scaffold.
The centerpiece of the mid-seventeenth-century's theatre of death
was the condemned man's last dying utterance. This study focuses on
the words and contexts of many of those final speeches, including
King Charles I's (1649), Archbishop William Laud's (1645), and the
Earl of Strafford's (1641), as well as those of less well known
royalists and regicides. Where we situate ourselves to view, hear,
and comprehend a public execution-through specific participants'
eyes, ears, and minds or accounts-shapes our interpretation of the
ritual. It is impossible to achieve a singular, carefully
indoctrinated meaning of an event as complex as a state-sponsored
public execution. Along with the variety of voices and meanings,
the nature and purpose of the rituals of justice maintain a
significant amount of consistency in a number of eras and cultural
contexts. Whether the focus is on the trial and execution of the
Marian martyrs, English royalists in the 1640s and 1650s, or the
Restoration's regicides, the events draw on a set of cultural
expectations or conventions. Because rituals of justice are shaped
by diverse voices and agendas, with the participants' scripts and
counterscripts converging and colliding, they are dramatic moments
conveying profound meanings. Published by University of Delaware
Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
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