Imagining the King's Death

Name: Imagining the King's Death
Author: University of York) Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies Professor of English and Co-Director Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies John (Professor of English and Co-Director Barrell

University of York) Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies Professor of English and Co-Director Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies John (Professor of English and Co-Director Barrell

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It is high treason in British law to imagine the king's death. But after the execution of Louis XVI in 1793, everyone in Britain must have found themselves imagining that the same fate might befall George III. How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George and 'imagining' it, in the legal sense of 'intending' or 'designing'?

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