The Royal Image
Representations of Charles I

This volume deals with the crisis in the representation of the monarchy that was provoked by the execution of Charles I.

Thomas N. Corns (Edited by)

9780521590471, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 28 June 1999

334 pages
24.4 x 17 x 1.9 cm, 0.73 kg

Review of the hardback: '… provides a significant discussion of the varied image-making of the Caroline regime'. The English Historical Review

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.

Preface
1. Duke, Prince and King: problems, transitions and transformations in the early representation of Charles I Thomas N Corns
2. 'A ball of strife': Caroline poetry and royal marriage Ann Baynes Coiro
3. Popular representations of Charles I Joad Raymond
4. 'Incendiaries of the State': Charles I and tyranny Martin Dzelzainis
5. The King among radicals: godly Republicans, Levellers, Diggers and Fifth Monarchists David Loewenstein
6. Eikon Basilike and the rhetoric of self-representation Elizabeth Skerpan Wheeler
7. Milton and King Charles Sharon Achinstein
8. The King's Music Jonathan P. Wainwright
8. The visual image of Charles I John Peacock
10. The royal martyr in the Restoration: national grief and national sin Lois Potter
11. Reviving the martyr king: Charles I as Jacobite icon Laura Lunger Knuppers
12. The royal image: an afterword Kevin Sharpe
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 [DSBD]