‘A KING OF THINE OWN HEART’: THE ENGLISH RECEPTION OF KING JAMES VI AND I'S<i>BASILIKON DORON</i>

Doelman, James

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“…James made his support for Du Bartas clear in Basilikon Doron, copies of which were reportedly being printed within hours of Elizabeth's death, and were made available just four days later, on 28 March 1603. 42 Basilikon Doron's 'To the Reader' remarks that 'it [the work] must be taken of all men, for the true image of my very minde, and forme of the rule, whiche I haue praescriued to my selfe and minde'. 43 James Craigie observes that 'Du Bartas is the only modern poet ever cited' in James's prose works, though James certainly knew the critical writings of Pierre de Ronsard and Joachim Du Bellay, and shows further knowledge of French writers in his poetry.…”

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The Semaines' Dissemination in England and Scotland until 1641

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2011

Renaissance Studies

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Most educated English and Scottish readers in the Stuart period knew of Guillaume de Saluste Du Bartas's Semaines (1578, 1584 et seq.), usually in Josuah Sylvester's translation, Devine Weekes (1605 et seq.). 1 This article is about how the Semaines' readership expanded and diversified between the date of the first printed English-language translations of Du Bartas's poetry in 1584 and the final seventeenth-century re-issue of Sylvester's translation in 1641. 2 Within this period the poems were read, praised and quoted in French and English by a wide range of poets, playwrights, scholars, courtiers, clergymen and other writers. 3 As more printed editions became available the number of references to Du Bartas increased, and different communities of readers emerged. In the late sixteenth century Du Bartas was chiefly mentioned in print by writers in London who were well-informed about contemporary poetry; after -and partly because of -James's accession to the English throne, the Semaines reached a wider educated readership which admired the poems as an authoritative repository of knowledge.

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The Semaines' Dissemination in England and Scotland until 1641

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“…8 8 Other essays and articles appearing in the 1990s are Wormald, ‘James VI and I’; Doelman, ‘ “A King of Thine Own Heart” ’; Fischlin, ‘ “Counterfeiting God” ’; and Bell. …”

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The Writings of King James VI and I and Early Modern Literary Culture

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2012

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King James VI and I was unprecedented among early modern monarchs in the extent to which he exploited writing and print as a means of constructing and exercising his authority. His extensive and varied writings cover many different genres, including poetry, scriptural exegeses, and political treatises. They were published in Scotland and England, as well as in some cases being translated and published on the Continent, and span a period of around forty years. Many contemporary writers in Scotland and England, including Alexander Montgomerie and Ben Jonson, responded to James’s works in their own, reflecting the important role that these works played in the literary culture of both countries. Yet James’s writings and their reception received little critical attention until the late twentieth century and there are still significant gaps. This article traces the critical history of these writings from the early twentieth century to the present, across the disciplines of English Literature and History, and the multi‐disciplinary field of Scottish Studies. It argues that this history highlights the sometimes unhelpful boundaries that have been maintained between these disciplines and fields, and that future work in this area might productively take a more comparative and interdisciplinary approach.

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J ames VI and I

Rickard¹

2017

The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature

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James Stuart (1566–1625), king of Scotland and England, was not only an important literary patron but also a prolific author in his own right. Born in Edinburgh in 1566, he was crowned King James VI of Scotland when he was only 13 months old. Upon the death of Elizabeth I of England in 1603, James acceded to the English throne, adding to his first title the second of James I of England. James reigned over England and Scotland until his death in 1625. He wrote in a wide range of genres, including poetry, scriptural exegeses, and social and political treatises. To a degree unprecedented among early modern monarchs, he exploited writing and print as a means of representing himself to his subjects.

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‘A KING OF THINE OWN HEART’: THE ENGLISH RECEPTION OF KING JAMES VI AND I'SBASILIKON DORON

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The Semaines' Dissemination in England and Scotland until 1641

The Semaines' Dissemination in England and Scotland until 1641

The Writings of King James VI and I and Early Modern Literary Culture

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