Table of Contents

Reading James Writing - The Subjects of Royal Writings in Jacobean Britain, Kevin Sharpe; ""Enregistrate Speech"" - Strategems of Monarchic Writing in the Work of James VI and I, Daniel Fischlin and Mark Fortier; ""Best of Poets, Best of Kings"" - James VI and I and the Scene of Monarchic Verse, Peter C. Herman; ""The Fountain and Very Being of Truth"" - James VI, Poetic Invention, and National Identity, Carolyn Ives; The ""Amatoria"" of James VI - Loving by the ""Reulis"", Morna R. Fleming; Discovering Desire in the ""Amatoria"" of James VI, Sarah M. Dunnigan; ""Pairt of My Taill is Yet Untolde"" - James VI and I, The ""Phoenix"", and the Royal Gift, Simon Wortham; ""If Proclamations Will Not Serve"" - The Late Manuscript Poetry of James VI and the Culture of Libel, Curtis Perry; Britain's Solomon - King James and the Law, Louis A Knafla; Equity and Ideas - Coke, Ellesmere, and James VI and I, Mark Fortier; King James VI and I and John Seldon - Two Voices on History and the Constitution, Johann P. Sommerville; ""Precious Stinke"" - James I's ""A Counterblaste to Tobacco"", Sandra J. Bell; Writing King James's Sexuality, David M. Bergeron; The Making of ""Rex Pacificus"" - James VI and I and the Problem of Peace in an Age of Religious War, Malcolm Smuts; ""To Eat the Flesh of Kings"" - James VI and I, Apocalypse, Nation, and Sovereignty, Daniel Fishlin; James I and King David - Jacobean Iconography and its Legacy, John N. King; The Reception of King James's Psalter, James Doelman; Reading and Misreading King James 1622-42 - Responses to the ""Letter and Directions Touching Preaching and Preachers"", Joseph Marshall.

About the Author

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 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).

Reviews

This is an absolutely splendid book. For far too long, the amazing literary output of James VI and I has been regarded, at best, as interesting for its political theory and views on kingship, at worst, as worth noting not for its intrinsic value but because a king put pen to paper. Fischlin and Fortier have put together a collection which at last does its subject justice, and are to be congratulated on doing so.--Jenny Wormald "St. Hilda's College, Oxford"