For decades now the perception of executions in early modern Europe has adopted the perspective imposed by Michel Foucault. His reading of the allegedly carefully planned spectacle as the discourse between authorities and subjects has not yet been seriously undermined in reference to the English narratives concerning executions, even if Sharpe, Garland and other Anglo-Saxon historians did emphasize the qualitative difference between English and French traditions surrounding death on the scaffold. The discourse in question may achieve an additional dimension if the research focuses on verbal representations of executions – narratives of pamphlets printed within a short period of time after the events. Title pages of the pamphlets deserve special attention since they fulfilled diverse functions in early modern England, being simultaneously part and parcel of the published text and a separate advertising leaflet used to promote the book. Diachronic analysis of title pages (as well as of the proper texts of the pamphlets) offers evidence which undermines the hitherto accepted pattern of reading of executions as messages of power. Instead, they may be interpreted as “narrative games” which participate in the complex process of shaping narrative techniques. It also facilitates the thesis that pamphlets printed in London featuring reports from early modern English executions comprise a unique history of the emergence of the individual character, the individual “I,” in narratives focused on otherwise liminal situations. There was also a marked modification of attitudes toward “dying speeches.”