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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"regicide"”.
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The impact of the regicide of Charles I on contemporary English notions of time and the future
… altered by an event as unprecedented as the regicide? I focus on three groups of writers: astrologers, history writers, and newsbook authors, performing a diachronic analysis of their publications to understand how their ideas of time and the future evolved in the tumultuous time of civil war …
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Sublimating the Singularity of an Author(ity): Textual Publics, Textual Agency, and a Case Study of "Eikon Basilike" (1649-1660)
… text-agent in a psychoanalytic case study of the regicide of Charles I (1649); the posthumous publication of his book, "Eikon Basilike"; and royalist textual responses to these events during the English Interregnum (1648/9–1660/1). I argue that "Eikon Basilike"—Charles I’s textual agent—was …
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The Poetics of Liminality and the Politics of English Literary Culture, 1635-1700
… on the uneven cultural topography of civil war, regicide, restoration and revolution, I pursue the liminal in chapters on Thomas Browne's "Janus-faced" epistemology and politics; on borders and transgressions in Marvell; on Rochester and ventriloquy; and on Dryden's poetics of conversion and …
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Politics and Hermeneutics in the Meditations of Anne, Lady Halkett, 1651-1699
… prayer for the king, the national guilt for the regicide, and the corresponding national obligation for the Restoration of 1660. Although Halkett’s position on these subjects is broadly congruent with Anglican royalism between the 1650s and the 1680s, there is little about her arguments that …
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‘Richard would outlive his overthrow’: Post-Shakespearean Representations of Richard III
… political allegory in the time of the regicide. By reconstructing the life of Wincoll, a royalist poet from a puritan family, the chapter outlines the contradictory nexus of convictions which underlie Civil War literature. Overall, my thesis argues that Richard III evolved from the …
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Violence, (dis) Loyalties And The English Subject-Citizen, 1569 - 1588
… Yet, it led to a spectacular legal event: the regicide of one queen to ensure continuity of dearer goals--civil peace, and right religion.</p> <p>The self-declared stakeholders in the national destiny understood their collective duty as actors whose direction of that national destiny was an …
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The humanization of Falstaff: audience experience and response in <i>Henry IV</i>
… someone who had not committed murder (preferably regicide) or adultery. The fact is, of course, that Shakespeare’s works remain not only “classic” but also remarkably popular at a time when the works of his contemporaries survive largely by dint of scholarly interest alone. And one of the reasons, …