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Eikon Basilike |
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Eikon Basilike (ī`kŏn bəsĭl`ĭkē) [Gr.,=royal image], subtitled "the Portraiture of His Sacred Majesty in His Solitudes and Sufferings," a work published soon after the execution of Charles I of England in 1649. It purports to be the king's spiritual autobiography. Written in simple, direct, and moving language, it ran into many editions and was translated into several languages. After the Restoration, John Gauden claimed authorship of the book, and this claim is still a subject of scholarly controversy. Because of the favorable image it created of the king, John Milton was assigned by the regicides to reply to it, which he did in his Eikonoklastes (1649). The name is also spelled Icon Basilike and Ikon Basilike.
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No references found | A chapter each on Titus Andronicus, Richard II, and Edward II constitutes the book's first part, "Haunting Allegories," while the second part, "Exhuming Effigies" comprises a chapter on revenge tragedy and one on Eikon Basilike, Milton's Eikonoklastes, and Marvell's "An Horatian Ode. Sharpe returns several times in this collection to the impact of Eikon Basilike, the posthumously published spiritual meditations allegedly written by Charles I. 50) Charles himself, protesting posthumously in Eikon Basilike against those "who intended, by publishing my private letters, nothing else but to render me more odious and contemptible to my people," brilliantly uses the very topos of private revelation to transform political embarrassment and military defeat into martyrdom. |
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