Abstract
This chapter challenges the notion that England suffered a collective trauma following the decapitation of Charles I. It argues that Peter Rudnytsky's revival of T. S. Eliot's theory of the “dissociation of sensibility” is politically backward looking and intellectually suspect, but nevertheless acknowledges the far-reaching impact and implications of Charles's execution. Both Andrew Marvell and John Milton use the language of the Fall of Man, which Rudnytsky sees as reflecting guilt about the lost monarchical order. Rudnytsky offers some suggestive readings of Milton's engagements with William Shakespeare in the regicide tracts. Shakespeare synthesizes the very different views of kingship he found in Lancastrian and Yorkist sources.
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