Eikon Basilike

"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 These fascinating texts are now available in an edition that also includes a rich selection of historical documents."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 Boadview 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."--BOOK JACKET.

Jim Daems currently teaches in the English Department at the University College of the Fraser Valley.

Acknowledgements

9

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List of Illustrations

11

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Introduction

13

(28)

A Brief Historical Chronology

41

(4)

A Note on the Texts

45

(2)

Eikon Basilike

47

(170)

Selections from Eikonoklastes

217

(68)

Appendix A: Other Contemporary Responses to Eikon Basilike

1. From Eikon Alethine (1649)

285

(7)

2. From The Life and Reign of King Charles (1651)

292

(4)

3. From Eikon Aklastos (1651)

296

(7)

Appendix B: The Trial and Execution of King Charles I

1. Line Engraving, Trial of King Charles I (17th Century)

303

(1)

2. From "The Manner of the Trial of Charles Stuart King of England" (1684)

304

(15)

3. "King Charles His Speech Made upon the Scaffold at Whitehall-Gate" (1650)

319

(6)

Appendix C: Restoration Revelations and Restraints

1. By the King. A Proclamation (1660)

325

(3)

2. The Anglesey Memorandum (1690)

328

(1)

Works Cited and Select Bibliography

329

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