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Book SynopsisKing James VI of Scotland and I of England participated in the burgeoning literary culture of the Renaissance as patron and author. This book explores the full range of these extensive writings, which include poetry, scriptural exegeses and political treatises, in the contexts of their production and reception.
Trade ReviewRickard’s book is … welcome and long overdue … a book that deserves attention from both literary scholars and historians
This is a timely and valuable contribution to Jacobean literary scholarship which … deserves to be widely read
an illuminating and much welcome study, which will prove indispensable to future students of the literary production of this most mysterious of kings
an authoritative and fascinating book … Everyone at all interested in James VI and I ought to read it
Rickard’s intriguing and accessible account certainly provides many new perspectives from which to view James’s reign
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Table of ContentsIntroduction: Reading James VI and I
1. Constructing the Writer-King: the early poetry
2. The word of God and the word of the King: the early scriptural exegeses
3. Print, authority, interpretation: the major prose works
4. Monumentalising the royal author: The Workes (1616)
5. The late poetry and the deconstruction of authority
Afterword
Bibliography
Index
