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

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Rickards 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

Rickards intriguing and accessible account certainly provides many new perspectives from which to view Jamess reign

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Jane Rickard is Lecturer in English at the University of Leeds