Royal Subjects: Essays on the Writings of James VI and I. With a Foreword by Kevin Sharpe.

From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Overall very good and clean. - Contents: Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Reading James Writing: The Subjects of Royal Writings in Jacobean Britain by Kevin Sharpe -- Introduction: �Enregistrate Speech�: Stratagems of Monarchic Writing in the Work of James VI and I by Daniel Fischlin and Mark Fortier -- I. Poetics and Kingship -- 1. �Best of Poets, Best of Kings�: King James VI and I and the Scene of Monarchic Verse by Peter C. Herman -- 2. �The Fountain and Very Being of Truth�: James VI, Poetic Invention, and National Identity by Carolyn Ives and David J. Parkinson -- 3. The Amatoria of James VI: Loving by the Reulis by Morna R. Fleming -- 4. Discovering Desire in the Amatoria of James VI by Sarah M. Dunnigan -- 5. �Pairt of My Taill Is Yet Untolde�: James VI and I, the Phoenix, and the Royal Gift by Simon Wortham -- 6. �If Proclamations Will Not Serve�: The Late Manuscript Poetry of James I and the Culture of Libel by Curtis Perry -- II. Prose, Politics, and Society -- 7. Britain�s Solomon: King James and the Law by Louis A. Knafla -- 8. Equity and Ideas: Coke, Ellesmere, and James VI and I by Mark Fortier -- 9. King James VI and I and John Selden: Two Voices on History and the Constitution by Johann P. Sommerville -- 10. �Precious Stinke�: James I�s A Counterblaste to Tobacco by Sandra J. Bell -- 11. Writing King James�s Sexuality by David M. Bergeron -- III. Writing and Religion -- 12. The Making of Rex Pacificus: James VI and I and the Problem of Peace in an Age of Religious War by Malcolm Smuts -- 13. �To Eate the Flesh of Kings�: James VI and I, Apocalypse, Nation, and Sovereignty by Daniel Fischlin -- 14. James I and King David: Jacobean Iconography and Its Legacy by John N. King -- 15. The Reception of King James�s Psalter by James Doelman -- 16. Reading and Misreading King James 1622-42: Responses to the Letter and Directions Touching Preaching and Preachers by Joseph Marshall. - Daniel Fischlin is a professor in the School of Literatures and Performance Studies in English at the University of Guelph. He is the author of In Small Proportions: A Poetics of the English Ayre, 1596-1622 (Wayne State University Press, 1997) and co-editor with Mark Fortier of Adaptations of Shakespeare: A Critical Anthology of Plays from the Seventeenth Century to the Present (Routledge, 2000). Mark Fortier is an associate professor of English at the University of Winnipeg. He is the author of Theory/Theatre: An Introduction (Routledge, 1997).