Eikon Basilike
with selections from Eikonoklastes
Published on 8. November 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-1-55111-594-8 (ISBN)
Description
Published just after the execution of King Charles I in 1649, Eikon Basilike is a defence of the king's motivations and actions prior to and during the British civil wars. Nine chapters of Eikonoklastes, John Milton's response to Eikon Basilike, are also included in this edition. Here Milton, writing from a republican perspective, attacks the substance and style of the King's Book. These fascinating texts are now available in an edition that also includes a rich selection of historical documents.
This Broadview edition's critical introduction discusses the publication history and both seventeenth-century and current debates regarding the work and its authorship, while the appendices provide a generous selection of contemporary responses to Eikon Basilike and accounts of the king's trial and scaffold speech.
This Broadview edition's critical introduction discusses the publication history and both seventeenth-century and current debates regarding the work and its authorship, while the appendices provide a generous selection of contemporary responses to Eikon Basilike and accounts of the king's trial and scaffold speech.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Calgary
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
450 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55111-594-8 (9781551115948)
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Jim Daems currently teaches in the English Department at the University College of the Fraser Valley. He is the author of Seventeenth-Century Literature and Culture (Continuum, 2005).
Holly Faith Nelson, Assistant Professor of English at Trinity Western University, has co-edited The Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Verse and Prose (2000) and Of Paradise and Light: Essays on Henry Vaughan and John Milton (University of Delaware Press, 2004).
Holly Faith Nelson, Assistant Professor of English at Trinity Western University, has co-edited The Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Verse and Prose (2000) and Of Paradise and Light: Essays on Henry Vaughan and John Milton (University of Delaware Press, 2004).