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Regicide
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REGICIDE. The killing of a king, and, by extension, of a queen. Theorie des Lois Criminelles, vol. 1, p. 300.



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Like Hamlet, the young Telmarine Prince Caspian has lost his rightful throne to his usurping regicidal uncle.
Burks demonstrates how these regicidal historians revived the earlier language and imagery which linked political impositions with the sexual transgressions of the monarch: "These antimonarchist writers set out to prove that Charles was a tyrant by pointing to the arbitrariness of his will, which they insinuated was not only a will to power, but also a will to pleasure irrational and boundless in its desire" (269).
Or it might be that the Tories' toppling of Thatcher started a regicidal habit that has spread to the other parties.
 
 
 
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