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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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Kezar extends Fish's resistant reading to associate Samson's inwardness with the ars moriendi tradition (specifically Thomas Becon's The Sick Man's Slave, 1561), a tradition likewise employed by Charles I'S Eikon Basilike. Clarendon's appropriation of the psalm is bold but not unique, and is actually entirely in keeping with Charles I's own attempt, using allusions to the psalms, to recast himself as the suffering and penitent King David in the Eikon Basilike, attacked so vehemently by Milton. It was, as Elizabeth Skerpan Wheeler shows, the king's autobiography, Eikon Basilike (1649), "offered on the streets on the very day of his execution" (122), that established an impression of his character that still endures. |
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