The Royal Image: Representations of Charles I

by Edited by Thomas N. Corns

• ISBN13: 9780521590471
• ISBN10: 0521590477
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-06-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This volume deals with the crisis in the representation of the monarchy that was provoked by the execution of Charles I. 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. Besides courtly and popular literary representations, it examines Charles's visual image in paintings, sculpture, engravings and coins and considers the role of the King's Music in projecting a positive view of the monarch. The volume will appeal not only to literary scholars but also to historians, art historians and musicologists.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	ix
List of contributors	xii
Preface	xv
Duke, prince and king	1	(25)
Thomas N. Corns
`A ball of strife': Caroline poetry and royal marriage	26	(21)
Ann Baynes Coiro
Popular representations of Charles I	47	(27)
Joad Raymond
`Incendiaries of the state': Charles I tyranny	74	(22)
Martin Dzelzainis
The king among the radicals	96	(26)
David Loewenstein
Eikon Basilike and the rhetoric of self-representation	122	(19)
Elizabeth Skerpan Wheeler
Milton and King Charles	141	(21)
Sharon Achinstein
The King's Music	162	(14)
Jonathan P. Wainwright
The visual image of Charles I	176	(64)
John Peacock
The royal martyr in the Restoration	240	(23)
Lois Potter
Reviving the martyr king: Charles I as Jacobite icon	263	(25)
Laura Lunger Knoppers
The royal image: an afterword	288	(22)
Kevin Sharpe
Index	310