Authorship and Authority: The Writings of James vi and I

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James VI of Scotland and I of England participated in the burgeoning literary culture of the Renaissance, not only as a monarch and patron, but as an author in his own right, publishing extensively in a number of different genres over four decades. As the first monograph devoted to James as an author, this book offers a fresh perspective on his rei

Jane Rickard is Lecturer in English at the University of Leeds -- .

Rickard's book is ... welcome and long overdue ... a book that deserves attention from both literary scholars and historians This is a timely and valuable contribution to Jacobean literary scholarship which ... deserves to be widely read an illuminating and much welcome study, which will prove indispensable to future students of the literary production of this most mysterious of kings an authoritative and fascinating book ... Everyone at all interested in James VI and I ought to read it Rickard's intriguing and accessible account certainly provides many new perspectives from which to view James's reign -- .