SHAKSPER 1999: Re: Executioners

From: Hardy M. Cook (editor@ws.bowiestate.edu)
Date: 12/14/99


The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 10.2199  Tuesday, 14 December 1999.

From:           Frank Whigham <ffw@uts.cc.utexas.edu>
Date:           Thursday, 09 Dec 1999 11:24:21 -0600
Subject: 10.2190 Executioners
Comment:        Re: SHK 10.2190 Executioners

For perhaps too general information see:

Lofland, John. "The Dramaturgy of State Executions," in State Executions
Viewed Historically and Sociologically, ed. Horace Bleackley and John
Lofland (Montclair NJ: Patterson Smith, 1977): 275-325.

Sharpe, J. A. "'Last Dying Speeches': Religion, Ideology and Public
Execution in Seventeenth-Century England." Past and Present 107 (1985):
144-67.

Spierenberg, Pieter. The Spectacle of Suffering: Executions and the
Evolution of Repression: from a Preindustrial Metropolis to the European
Experience.  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1984.

Frank Whigham



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