Colm Toibin; Dullness as a virtue
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Charles the First's Execution
The very act of putting a king on trial might seem to many at the time, and indeed now, to have been an outrageously revolutionary act. But what they want to do is make it to look right, justified, dull to an extent. And charles repeatedly wanted to drag the court towards a consideration of whether or not it had any authority over him. It's a sort of repetative cycle of seeking authority, but being denied it by the person that you're trying to judge.
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