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 reigns in Scotland and England, and also
on the inter-relationship of authorship and authority, literature
and politics in the Renaissance. Beginning with the poetry he wrote
in Scotland in the 1580s, it moves through a wide range of his
writings in other genres, including scriptural exegeses, political,
social and theological treatises and printed speeches, concluding
with his manuscript poetry of the early 1620s. The book combines
extensive primary research into the preparation, material form and
circulation of these varied writings, with theoretically informed
consideration of the relationship between authors, texts and
readers. The discussion thus explores James's responses to, and
interventions in, a range of literary, political and religious
debates, and reveals the development of his aims and concerns as an
author. Rickard argues that, despite the King's best efforts to the
contrary, his writings expose the tensions and contradictions
between authorship and authority. This book will be of interest to
scholars and students of the reign of James VI and I, the literary
and political cultures of late sixteenth-century Scotland and early
seventeenth-century England, the development of notions of
authorship and the relationship between literature and politics. --
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