Tyrants and Tyrannicide in Mid-seventeenth Century England : a Woman’s Perspective ?
In the wake of the execution of Charles I, a few Englishwomen either denounced (like John Milton) the tyrant or condemned the tyrannicide. Breaking the taboos inherent in patriarchal society, they deliberately used the genre of prophecy to address the issue of regicide in way that was both personal...
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| Language: | English |
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Institut du Monde Anglophone
2009-04-01
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| Series: | Etudes Epistémè |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/episteme/713 |