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Basilikon Doron

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature | 2003 | | © The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature 2003, originally published by Oxford University Press 2003. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Basilikon Doron, see James I and VI.

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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Basilikon Doron." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 23 Dec. 2009 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

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Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...later that of Prince Henry, for whom James wrote Basilikon Doron. Young shows that Peacham's three manuscript emblem books are related not only to James's Basilikon Doron, but also (especially in case of the heraldic emblems...
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Magazine article from: The Historian; 1/1/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...different perspectives. Two of these are worth mentioning here. Jenny Wormald explores the Scottish setting for Basilikon Doron and The Trew Law of Free Monarchies and argues persuasively that James, in the tradition of Marcus Aurelius and King...
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Magazine article from: Shakespeare Bulletin; 6/22/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...Shakespeare's recent performance history. Early modern texts, including school books, prayer books and James I's Basilikon Doron (1599), and performance practices, such as the apprentice player system and royal pageantry, are examined alongside...
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Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 3/9/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...mannered recluse and a sodomite, he was also hailed as a poet and thinker, the author of learned tomes such as the Basilikon Doron. As was common throughout polite society in Europe, men bowed before the king and their wives curtsied, and woe...
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Magazine article from: The Spectator; 10/5/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...gods' representatives upon earth. The closest parallel might be with the theories of James VI and I expounded in Basilikon Doron, a book which opens with the sonnet: God gives not Kings the style of Gods in vaine For on his throne his scepter...
England's Internal Colonies: Class, Capital, and the Literature of Early Modern English Colonialism.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...terms of borderlands and the vagrants and gypsies who lived there. Here, Netzloff makes use of texts like James's Basilikon Doron (1599) and Ben Jonson's The Gypsies Metamorphosed (1621) to explore identity and boundaries. Chapter 5 discusses...
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Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 3/22/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...family to the patriarchal king. The quintessential proof of the Stuart analogy between father and monarch is James's Basilikon Doron, the record of his "fatherly authoritie" published for the nation, but originally written as advice to four...
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Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 10/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...in 1592-93, or it might have been undertaken as part of Fowler's involvement with James's composition of the Basilikon Doron. The last section of the paper analyses Fowler's dedication of the work to the Laird of Buccleuch, and the circumstances...

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Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History ...impressed the crowds by his fine horsemanship and erect bearing. He had absorbed the precepts laid down in his father's Basilikon doron , which not only stressed the patriarchal nature of kingship but encouraged self-restraint and modesty, only to...
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