Royal Subjects

Essays on the Writings of James VI and I

By: Daniel Fischlin (Editor), Mark Fortier (Editor), Kevin Sharpe (Foreword by)

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Hardcover | 1 February 2002

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Best known for his landmark version of the Protestant Bible, James VI (1566-1625) of Scotland, who succeeded Elizabeth I to the English throne, was truly a monarch of the word. From religious prose and verse, to political treatises and social works, to love poems and witty doggerel, James used writing and the print media to inspire his subjects, govern them, keep his enemies at bay, and even examine his own authority. Until now, the full span of James's work has received little critical attention by political and literary historians. In Royal Subjects, sixteen leading scholars explore the richness of his oeuvre from a variety of perspectives, and in so doing seek to establish monarchic writing as an important genre in its own right.

As religious reformers, Henry VIII and Elizabeth I had produced devotional works, but James VI and I saw writing as central to his rule overall, even though he knew it could invite criticism. He wrote, for example, a treatise on kingship, a controversial argument against tobacco, and an epic poem encouraging ecumenism among Christians. In many cases, his use of genre revealed a sensitivity to cultural power, while his decisions whether or not to print reflected an emergent understanding of writing as a commodity.

By examining such topics, these essays delve into central issues of critical debate, including questions of authorship and authority, representation and power, receptions and appropriations of text, and politics of genres and material forms. Through its unprecedented look at monarchic writing, Royal Subjects not only enriches our understanding of the reign of James VI and I, but also offers fruitful suggestions for approaches to otherRenaissance texts and other periods.

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This is an absolutely splendid book. For far too long, the amazing literary output of James VI and I has been regarded, at best, as interesting for its political theory and views on kingship, at worst, as worth noting not for its intrinsic value but because a king put pen to paper. Fischlin and Fortier have put together a collection which at last does its subject justice, and are to be congratulated on doing so.--Jenny Wormald "St. Hilda's College, Oxford "

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Acknowledgments	p. 7
Contributors	p. 9
Foreword
Reading James Writing: The Subjects of Royal Writings in Jacobean Britain	p. 15
Introduction
"Enregistrate Speech": Stratagems of Monarchic Writing in the Work of James VI and I	p. 37
"Best of Poets, Best of Kings": King James VI and I and the Scene of Monarchic Verse	p. 61
"The Fountain and Very Being of Truth": James VI, Poetic Invention and National Identity	p. 104
The Amatoria of James VI: Loving by the Reulis	p. 124
Discovering Desire in the Amatoria of James VI	p. 149
"Pairt of My Taill Is Yet Untolde": James VI and I, the Phoenix, and the Royal Gift	p. 182
"If Proclamations Will Not Serve": The Late Manuscript Poetry of James I and the Culture of Libel	p. 205
Britain's Solomon: King James and the Law	p. 235
Equity and Ideas: Coke, Ellesmere, and James VI and I	p. 265
King James VI and I and John Selden: Two Voices on History and the Constitution	p. 290
"Precious Stinke": James I's A Counterblaste to Tobacco	p. 323
Writing King James's Sexuality	p. 344
The Making of Rex Pacificus: James VI and I and the Problem of Peace in an Age of Religious War	p. 371
"To Eate the Flesh of Kings": James VI and I, Apocalypse, Nation, and Sovereignty	p. 388
James I and King David: Jacobean Iconography and Its Legacy	p. 421
The Reception of King James's Psalter	p. 454
Reading and Misreading King James 1622-42: Responses to the Letter and Directions Touching Preaching and Preachers	p. 476
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