Murder In Shakespeare's England - Hardcover

McMahon, Vanessa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1852854227 ISBN 13: 9781852854225

Publisher: Hambledon Pr, 2004

Synopsis

Murder in Seventeenth-Century England is a grisly social history of how murder was committed, discovered and punished in Stuart England. It looks at many specific cases, providing details on the most popular serial killings, sex-based murders, and infanticide deaths of the time. The book shows that, just as today, people in the seventeenth century were fascinated with these violent crimes, filling the courts to watch the trials and crowding the execution squares to watch the hangings, even writing ballads and creating graphic prints on the most notorious cases of the times. With fascinating detail on how these crimes were ever successfully solved with little or no forensic evidence, this book will be intriguing to history buffs and true crime readers alike.

About this title

About the Author:

Vanessa McMahon is Assistant Professor at The American International University in London. She holds a doctorate in history from Royal Holloway, University of London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hambledon Pr
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1852854227
• ISBN 13: 9781852854225
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 285