Eikon Basilike: With Selections from Eikonoklastes

By John Gauden, Charles I of England, Charles I of England, et al.

Book Overview

Published just after the execution of King Charles I in 1649, Eikon Basilikeis 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 These fascinating texts are now available in an edition that also includes a rich selection of historical documents.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 Basilikeand accounts of the king's trial and scaffold speech.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1551115948
• ISBN13: 9781551115948
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Broadview Press Inc
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.