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Imaginary Betrayals: Subjectivity and the Discourses of Treason in Early Modern England. By KAREN CUNNINGHAM. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2002. vi+216 pp. $42.50; 30 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8122-3640-8.
In her introduction Karen Cunningham alludes to the now familiar view of early modern public executions as 'formal cautionary rituals', quasi-theatrical manifestations of royal power. Cunningham turns her own critical attention, however, to the 'legal stories [that] led up to those extreme conclusions' (p. 3): the processes of accusation and trial that identified subjects as treasonous. Discourses of treason, she suggests, had several things in common with...
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