1999 marks the 350th anniversary of the execution of Charles I, and this volume deals with the crisis the execution provoked in the representation of the monarchy. It looks at both sympathetic and hostile representations of Charles I, and addresses not only the period of mid-century crisis but also the earlier years of his reign and the afterlife of his royal image. It will appeal not only to literary scholars but also to historians, art historians and musicologists.
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"Readers as well as politicians had a vested interest in this ownership of the royal image...What emerges then from this fine collection of essays is a sense of the instability of the royal image." Jrnl of English and Gemanic Philology, Jan 2002
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1999 marks the 350th anniversary of the execution of Charles I, and this volume deals with the crisis the execution provoked in the representation of the monarchy. It looks at both sympathetic and hostile representations of Charles I, and addresses not only the period of mid-century crisis but also the earlier years of his reign and the afterlife of his royal image. It will appeal not only to literary scholars but also to historians, art historians and musicologists.
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The representation of the future Charles I long preceded his accession in 1625. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Eikon Basilike, Cambridge University Press, Henrietta Maria, Clarendon Press, John Milton, Kevin Sharpe, Prince of Wales, New York, New Haven, Yale University Press, Prince Charles, Inigo Jones, Charles Edward, Prince Henry, Skerpan Wheeler, British Appeals, King Charls, Christ Church, Joad Raymond, Orlando Gibbons, David Loewenstein, Obstructours of Justice, Roy Strong, Stephen Bing, University of California Press New!
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The representation of the future Charles I long preceded his accession in 1625. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
martyr king, royal representation, royal image, coronation odes, royal martyr, salus populi, radical writers, royal marriage Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Eikon Basilike, Cambridge University Press, Henrietta Maria, Clarendon Press, John Milton, Kevin Sharpe, Prince of Wales, New York, New Haven, Yale University Press, Prince Charles, Inigo Jones, Charles Edward, Prince Henry, Skerpan Wheeler, British Appeals, King Charls, Christ Church, Joad Raymond, Orlando Gibbons, David Loewenstein, Obstructours of Justice, Roy Strong, Stephen Bing, University of California Press New!
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- The Personal Rule of Charles I by Kevin Sharpe on 6 pages
- Secret Rites and Secret Writing: Royalist Literature, 1641-1660 by Lois Potter on 5 pages
- Criticism and Compliment: The Politics of Literature in the England of Charles I (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History) by Kevin Sharpe on 5 pages
- The Late King's Goods: Collections, Possessions, and Patronage of Charles I in the Light of the Commonwealth Sale Inventories by Arthur MacGregor on 4 pages
- Charles I and the Road to Personal Rule (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History) by L. J. Reeve on 4 pages
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